Working with Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children

Issues for Policy and Practice
2007
ISBN: 978-1-4039-9754-8
Verlag: Macmillan Education UK

Buch, Englisch, 184 Seiten, Book, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 422 g

This text explores the challenges and possibilities of working with asylum seeking children and young people, including the different aspects of resettlement, alongside the development and sustainability of good standards of practice. A valuable resource for students and practitioners wanting to understand current debates and support unaccompanied minors.

Zielgruppe

Lower undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kohli, Ravi

Mitchell, Fiona

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Tables and Figures.- Acknowledgements.- Introduction.- Telling the stories of unaccompanied asylum seeking and refugee children; J.Simmonds.- The legal and policy frameworks that govern social work with unaccompanied asylum seeking and refugee children in England; J.Dennis.- Practitioner Stories; R.Kohli.- Assessment Practice with unaccompanied children: Exploring exceptions to the problem; F.Mitchell.- Therapeutic encounters between young people, bilingual co-workers and practitioners; H.Raval.- Group Work with unaccompanied young women; G.Heapy, K.Ehntholt & I.Sclare.- Friends and family care of unaccompanied children: recognising the possible and the potential; M.Kearney.- Using foster placements for the care and resettlement of unaccompanied children; R.Hek.- Leaving 'care'? Transition planning and support for unaccompanied young people; J.Dixon & J.Wade.- Looking Forward, Looking Back; S.Kidane.- Conclusion.- Bibliography.

Über Autor(innen)

RAVI K.S. KOHLI is Head of Applied Social Studies at the University of Bedfordshire, UK. He is the author of a number of books and articles on social work with children and anti-discriminatory practice. Publications include Using Anti-Discriminatory Theories in Social Work (1997), Supervision in Social Work (1999) (both co-authored) and Social Work with Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children (2007). FIONA MITCHELL is a senior researcher at The Children's Society. Her research focuses upon the rights and welfare of children and young people. She is the author of a number of journal articles on child and family social work and is the co-author of Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking children: the response of social work services.