Trevor Spratt
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 6023564 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Trevor Spratt |
| NOMBRES | Trevor |
| APELLIDO | Spratt |
| FIRMA | SPRATT T |
| AFILIACIONES | Queen's University Belfast |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3969-5527 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 31 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 195 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1886 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Professional Burnout as a Mediator in the Relationship Between Pandemic-Related Stress and Social Care Workers’ Mental Health
Understanding pathways between social care workers’ Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19)-related stress and poorer mental health outcomes can inform employers’ efforts to support the well-being of staff. The present study engaged 103 workers at an Irish Non-Government Organisation providing child and family support services. In the initial months following the cessation of pandemic restrictions in 2022, they completed an anonymous online survey th…
Factors Associated with Social Workers’ Likelihood to Report Suspected Child Abuse
Whilst there have been recent national surveys about reporting child abuse in several low- and middle-income countries, data from China are lacking. This study examined the prevalence of reporting suspected child abuse and factors associated with having ever reported in a sample of social workers from mainland China. Nationally representative data from the China Social Work Longitudinal Study were used, and responses from 3,510 participants who h…
Socio-emotional adjustment in children attending family centres
Family services offer the possibility of producing data sets, capable of primary analyses to measure service efficacy, and secondary analyses to develop nuanced understandings of family needs. In this article, we report secondary analysis of data drawn from 1,151 families elicited upon intake to family centres in Ireland. The aim was to examine correlates of children’s socio-emotional functioning, with focus on the quality of relationships betwee…
Supportive Relationships with Trusted Adults for Children and Young People Who Have Experienced Adversities
Adverse childhood experiences encompass both direct harm, such as abuse and neglect, and indirect harm via family issues, including parental substance abuse and mental illness. They create significant risks for problems in later life, including mental health problems, substance abuse, interpersonal violence and self-harm. Due to these enduring and damaging consequences, interventions are essential to prevent or mitigate impact. One form of suppor…
New understandings in childhood research and their implications for child and family services
In recent times the production of research linking childhood experiences with later life outcomes has had the effect of producing new understandings of child development, with increased attribution given to this stage in the life cycle as being foundational for future outcomes. In turn, this has generated the development of models which combine physiological, psychological and social impacts of adversity to challenge services to deliver intervent…
Domestic Violence and Whole Family Interventions
In this article we report the results of the introduction of measures to ascertain the impact of therapeutic services for families where domestic violence has taken place. The setting is a specialist service for families located in Dublin, Ireland. The overall goal of the intervention was the ending of violence. To help achieve this, therapies sought to reduce conflict, promote better parental mental health and improve the quality of relationship…
Establishing outcome measures in practice
Providers of therapeutic services to children and families have, in recent times, been subject to pressure to supplement traditional service output measures with evidence-based measures, which capture outcomes for service users. In this article, we report on the near decade long establishment of a range of standardised measures within an Irish non-governmental agency providing therapeutic help to children and families across two settings, family …
Adverse Childhood Experiences
Research has demonstrated conclusively that the experience of adversities in childhood increases the risks for poor outcomes in the domains of physical and mental health and economic and social circumstances across the life course. This has produced a wave of interest in the effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences internationally, with developments in policy across the UK nations reflective of this. The translation of such research and policy de…
Opening the Time Capsule of ACEs
In this article, we engage with some of the fundamental concepts underpinning the original adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) study and subsequent work, whilst recognising that the terminology of ACEs has in some ways become reductionist and problematic. Although an imperfect concept covering a range of childhood adversities at a personal, intrapersonal and community level, ACEs have utility in bridging scientific and lay communities. The evide…
Outcomes for Families Referred to Family Centres
There is growing interest in the development of evidence supporting therapeutic interventions in social work. Few examples, however, exist, of the use of validated instrumentation in measuring the impact of services upon children and families. We report here on the use of a suite of validated instruments to measure the impact of services on children and their parents in receipt of services provided by an Irish Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) …
Adverse Childhood Experiences and Social Work
Individuals with higher numbers of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) have been found to be overrepresented amongst users of social services. This poses challenges for service providers in seeking ways to incorporate knowledge about ACEs in the calibration of service provision, and for social workers as to how they might use such knowledge in their day-to-day practice. The key contribution of this article is as a position piece that aims to map…
Adverse Childhood Experiences
While an adverse childhood experience (ACE)-informed approach to child protection and welfare has become influential in USA, it has had markedly less influence in UK, this despite growth in adoption of ACE research as a basis for understanding population needs and aligning service delivery amongst policymakers and other professional groups. In this article, we note the development of ACE research and draw out implications for social work with chi…
Young Carers in Northern Ireland
This paper reports findings from a qualitative study undertaken with twenty-two young carers across Northern Ireland aged between eight and eighteen. It focuses on their experiences as informal care-givers in households where at least one family member was living with an illness and/or disability. While much has been written about the quantifiable aspects of informal care including the number of hours spent caring and the physical nature of carin…
Using Adverse Childhood Experience Scores to Better Understand the Needs of Young Carers
We report the results of research into the experiences of young carers in Barnardo’s Young Carers and Action for Children Young Carers projects. The study involved in-depth interviews with young carers, with the aim of better understanding, from their perspective, the impact of caring on their lives. We employed the ten-item Adverse Childhood Experiences questionnaire in secondary analysis of the data. Results reveal that numbers of adverse child…
Children Exposed to Domestic Violence
The identification of those children with high probability of experiencing poor health and social outcomes over the life course is a policy and service priority. In this paper, findings from a student population survey (n = 765) to determine the prevalence of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) is reported. It was found that, for those students reporting ACE scores of 1 or more, experience of domestic violence was the best predictor for higher AC…
The Influences of Training and Experience in Removal and Reunification Decisions Involving Children at Risk of Maltreatment
The question of the extent to which qualifying education prepares social work students to become effective practitioners has long been debated. This article reports the quantitative findings of the UK arm of a four-country comparative study that sought to explore one critical quality of a competent social worker—their ability to make decisions about individuals at risk, and to take appropriate action. The study involved 202 social work practition…
Decision making in child protection
Child Protection in Europe
We report a five-nations project in comparative child protection to provide recommendations on policy and practice to inform the redevelopment of the Swiss child protection system. The Swiss Federal Government and the Optimus and Oak Foundations commissioned the project—collective title: Association Programme National pour la Protection de l'Enfant. We identify the historical developmental trajectories of child protection systems together with co…
Child Welfare as Child Protection Then and Now
The research reported here builds on the work of one of the authors who, some thirteen years ago, in a similar study, examined the potential for social workers to shift from a child protection to a child welfare practice orientation. As with the original research study, this present project seeks to examine the everyday practices of social workers with children and families as revealed by file analysis, vignette questionnaires (reported here) and…
Prevalence of Adverse Childhood Experiences in a University Population
This paper is part of a series published by the Multiple Adverse Childhood Experiences research group based at Queen's University Belfast. First-year undergraduates took part in an online survey, self-reporting on Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) and measures of social service contact. The ten-item ACE questionnaire measures abuse, neglect and household dysfunction (current sample α = 0.711). The study achieved a response rate of 18.6 per cent…
Why Multiples Matter
Journal Article Why Multiples Matter: Reconceptualising the Population Referred to Child and Family Social Workers Get access Trevor Spratt Trevor Spratt * Dr Trevor Spratt is a senior lecturer in social work at the School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work at Queen's University Belfast. Following some ten years as a social work practitioner in child and family social work, he is now involved in research in this area. *Correspondence to …
Professional Discretion in Welfare Services
Child abuse as a complex and wicked problem
Child Welfare Interventions
Some 10 years ago one of the authors embarked on a research study examining the potential for social workers to shift from a child protection to a child welfare practice orientation (Spratt, 2000; 2001; Spratt and Callan, 2004). The research reported here develops that work; examining how social workers respond to ‘child care problems’ (CCPs). The results indicate that Northern Irish Health and Social Services Trusts (equivalent to Local Authorit…
Identifying Families with Multiple Problems
Whilst child welfare systems in the United Kingdom, Australia and the United States may share a number of common goals, they are not designed to identify families with multiple problems. Where system output measures have been utilised as proxy measures to detect such families they indicate the presence of families in the population served by child and family social work. In interviews with practitioners and managers working within contrasting wel…
Parents' Views on Social Work Interventions in Child Welfare Cases
This article reports the findings of the third part of a three-part research project examining the potential for social workers to shift from a child protection to a child welfare orientation in their practice. Whilst social workers in the United Kingdom have been encouraged to make such changes they have been hampered by concerns to manage risk. Findings from the first two parts of the project had indicated that there was potential for a substan…
Decision making by senior social workers at point of first referral
Journal Article Decision making by senior social workers at point of first referral Get access T Spratt T Spratt School of Social and Community Sciences, University of Ulster, Jordanstown, Newtownabbey, Co Antrim, BT37 0QB, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Social Work, Volume 30, Issue 5, October 2000, Pages 597–618, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/30.5.597 Published: 01 October 2000
The Influence of Child Protection Orientation on Child Welfare Practice
Journal Article The Influence of Child Protection Orientation on Child Welfare Practice Get access Trevor Spratt Trevor Spratt Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Social Work, Volume 31, Issue 6, 1 December 2001, Pages 933–954, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/31.6.933 Published: 01 December 2001
Child abuse as a complex and wicked problem
Why Multiples Matter
Journal Article Why Multiples Matter: Reconceptualising the Population Referred to Child and Family Social Workers Get access Trevor Spratt Trevor Spratt * Dr Trevor Spratt is a senior lecturer in social work at the School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work at Queen's University Belfast. Following some ten years as a social work practitioner in child and family social work, he is now involved in research in this area. *Correspondence to …
Adverse Childhood Experiences
While an adverse childhood experience (ACE)-informed approach to child protection and welfare has become influential in USA, it has had markedly less influence in UK, this despite growth in adoption of ACE research as a basis for understanding population needs and aligning service delivery amongst policymakers and other professional groups. In this article, we note the development of ACE research and draw out implications for social work with chi…
Child Welfare as Child Protection Then and Now
The research reported here builds on the work of one of the authors who, some thirteen years ago, in a similar study, examined the potential for social workers to shift from a child protection to a child welfare practice orientation. As with the original research study, this present project seeks to examine the everyday practices of social workers with children and families as revealed by file analysis, vignette questionnaires (reported here) and…
Identifying Families with Multiple Problems
Whilst child welfare systems in the United Kingdom, Australia and the United States may share a number of common goals, they are not designed to identify families with multiple problems. Where system output measures have been utilised as proxy measures to detect such families they indicate the presence of families in the population served by child and family social work. In interviews with practitioners and managers working within contrasting wel…
Identifying Families with Multiple Problems
In the development of family policy under New Labour there has been a growing tendency to identify groups who are likely to be high in lifetime costs to the state. Investment in such groups is seen as crucial. Whilst the economic case for current investment is compelling, idenitiying one of these groups, ‘families with multiple problems’ raises complex research problems and ethical issues. Reseach indicates that families with multiple problems ma…
Child Welfare Interventions
Some 10 years ago one of the authors embarked on a research study examining the potential for social workers to shift from a child protection to a child welfare practice orientation (Spratt, 2000; 2001; Spratt and Callan, 2004). The research reported here develops that work; examining how social workers respond to ‘child care problems’ (CCPs). The results indicate that Northern Irish Health and Social Services Trusts (equivalent to Local Authorit…
Prevalence of Adverse Childhood Experiences in a University Population
This paper is part of a series published by the Multiple Adverse Childhood Experiences research group based at Queen's University Belfast. First-year undergraduates took part in an online survey, self-reporting on Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) and measures of social service contact. The ten-item ACE questionnaire measures abuse, neglect and household dysfunction (current sample α = 0.711). The study achieved a response rate of 18.6 per cent…
Professional Discretion in Welfare Services
Adverse Childhood Experiences
Research has demonstrated conclusively that the experience of adversities in childhood increases the risks for poor outcomes in the domains of physical and mental health and economic and social circumstances across the life course. This has produced a wave of interest in the effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences internationally, with developments in policy across the UK nations reflective of this. The translation of such research and policy de…
Establishing outcome measures in practice
Providers of therapeutic services to children and families have, in recent times, been subject to pressure to supplement traditional service output measures with evidence-based measures, which capture outcomes for service users. In this article, we report on the near decade long establishment of a range of standardised measures within an Irish non-governmental agency providing therapeutic help to children and families across two settings, family …
Child Protection in Europe
We report a five-nations project in comparative child protection to provide recommendations on policy and practice to inform the redevelopment of the Swiss child protection system. The Swiss Federal Government and the Optimus and Oak Foundations commissioned the project—collective title: Association Programme National pour la Protection de l'Enfant. We identify the historical developmental trajectories of child protection systems together with co…
Domestic Violence and Whole Family Interventions
In this article we report the results of the introduction of measures to ascertain the impact of therapeutic services for families where domestic violence has taken place. The setting is a specialist service for families located in Dublin, Ireland. The overall goal of the intervention was the ending of violence. To help achieve this, therapies sought to reduce conflict, promote better parental mental health and improve the quality of relationship…
Outcomes for Families Referred to Family Centres
There is growing interest in the development of evidence supporting therapeutic interventions in social work. Few examples, however, exist, of the use of validated instrumentation in measuring the impact of services upon children and families. We report here on the use of a suite of validated instruments to measure the impact of services on children and their parents in receipt of services provided by an Irish Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) …
Using Adverse Childhood Experience Scores to Better Understand the Needs of Young Carers
We report the results of research into the experiences of young carers in Barnardo’s Young Carers and Action for Children Young Carers projects. The study involved in-depth interviews with young carers, with the aim of better understanding, from their perspective, the impact of caring on their lives. We employed the ten-item Adverse Childhood Experiences questionnaire in secondary analysis of the data. Results reveal that numbers of adverse child…
Children Exposed to Domestic Violence
The identification of those children with high probability of experiencing poor health and social outcomes over the life course is a policy and service priority. In this paper, findings from a student population survey (n = 765) to determine the prevalence of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) is reported. It was found that, for those students reporting ACE scores of 1 or more, experience of domestic violence was the best predictor for higher AC…
The Influences of Training and Experience in Removal and Reunification Decisions Involving Children at Risk of Maltreatment
The question of the extent to which qualifying education prepares social work students to become effective practitioners has long been debated. This article reports the quantitative findings of the UK arm of a four-country comparative study that sought to explore one critical quality of a competent social worker—their ability to make decisions about individuals at risk, and to take appropriate action. The study involved 202 social work practition…
Developing creative solutions to the problems of children and their families
The paper represents a further development of work previously reported in this journal by Spratt & Houston (1999) and Spratt et al. (2000) . The authors have sought to develop ways of understanding current social work with children and families in line with the critical theory of Jurgen Habermas. This analysis has been complemented by an adoption of the methodology of the radical dramatist, Augusto Boal. In synthesizing Habermas's analysis of com…
Factors Associated with Social Workers’ Likelihood to Report Suspected Child Abuse
Whilst there have been recent national surveys about reporting child abuse in several low- and middle-income countries, data from China are lacking. This study examined the prevalence of reporting suspected child abuse and factors associated with having ever reported in a sample of social workers from mainland China. Nationally representative data from the China Social Work Longitudinal Study were used, and responses from 3,510 participants who h…
Socio-emotional adjustment in children attending family centres
Family services offer the possibility of producing data sets, capable of primary analyses to measure service efficacy, and secondary analyses to develop nuanced understandings of family needs. In this article, we report secondary analysis of data drawn from 1,151 families elicited upon intake to family centres in Ireland. The aim was to examine correlates of children’s socio-emotional functioning, with focus on the quality of relationships betwee…
Opening the Time Capsule of ACEs
In this article, we engage with some of the fundamental concepts underpinning the original adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) study and subsequent work, whilst recognising that the terminology of ACEs has in some ways become reductionist and problematic. Although an imperfect concept covering a range of childhood adversities at a personal, intrapersonal and community level, ACEs have utility in bridging scientific and lay communities. The evide…
Adverse Childhood Experiences and Social Work
Individuals with higher numbers of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) have been found to be overrepresented amongst users of social services. This poses challenges for service providers in seeking ways to incorporate knowledge about ACEs in the calibration of service provision, and for social workers as to how they might use such knowledge in their day-to-day practice. The key contribution of this article is as a position piece that aims to map…
IX.— Remarks on a new Torso of a Youthful Dionysos
The Torso of Dionysos, shown in the accompanying plate from two photographs by Mr. Robinson of Tunbridge Wells, is of much interest, both from its state of preservation and character, and, also, from being an entirely new representation of the god; but more particularly from its possessing such decided characteristics of the Praxitelean schcol as to lead to the inference that it must be a copy of some celebrated statue of the god by this great ma…
Decision making by senior social workers at point of first referral
Journal Article Decision making by senior social workers at point of first referral Get access T Spratt T Spratt School of Social and Community Sciences, University of Ulster, Jordanstown, Newtownabbey, Co Antrim, BT37 0QB, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Social Work, Volume 30, Issue 5, October 2000, Pages 597–618, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/30.5.597 Published: 01 October 2000
Developing creative solutions to the problems of children and their families
The paper represents a further development of work previously reported in this journal by Spratt & Houston (1999) and Spratt et al. (2000) . The authors have sought to develop ways of understanding current social work with children and families in line with the critical theory of Jurgen Habermas. This analysis has been complemented by an adoption of the methodology of the radical dramatist, Augusto Boal. In synthesizing Habermas's analysis of com…
The Influence of Child Protection Orientation on Child Welfare Practice
Journal Article The Influence of Child Protection Orientation on Child Welfare Practice Get access Trevor Spratt Trevor Spratt Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Social Work, Volume 31, Issue 6, 1 December 2001, Pages 933–954, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/31.6.933 Published: 01 December 2001
Parents' Views on Social Work Interventions in Child Welfare Cases
This article reports the findings of the third part of a three-part research project examining the potential for social workers to shift from a child protection to a child welfare orientation in their practice. Whilst social workers in the United Kingdom have been encouraged to make such changes they have been hampered by concerns to manage risk. Findings from the first two parts of the project had indicated that there was potential for a substan…
Identifying Families with Multiple Problems
Whilst child welfare systems in the United Kingdom, Australia and the United States may share a number of common goals, they are not designed to identify families with multiple problems. Where system output measures have been utilised as proxy measures to detect such families they indicate the presence of families in the population served by child and family social work. In interviews with practitioners and managers working within contrasting wel…
Identifying Families with Multiple Problems
In the development of family policy under New Labour there has been a growing tendency to identify groups who are likely to be high in lifetime costs to the state. Investment in such groups is seen as crucial. Whilst the economic case for current investment is compelling, idenitiying one of these groups, ‘families with multiple problems’ raises complex research problems and ethical issues. Reseach indicates that families with multiple problems ma…
Child abuse as a complex and wicked problem
Child Welfare Interventions
Some 10 years ago one of the authors embarked on a research study examining the potential for social workers to shift from a child protection to a child welfare practice orientation (Spratt, 2000; 2001; Spratt and Callan, 2004). The research reported here develops that work; examining how social workers respond to ‘child care problems’ (CCPs). The results indicate that Northern Irish Health and Social Services Trusts (equivalent to Local Authorit…
Professional Discretion in Welfare Services
Why Multiples Matter
Journal Article Why Multiples Matter: Reconceptualising the Population Referred to Child and Family Social Workers Get access Trevor Spratt Trevor Spratt * Dr Trevor Spratt is a senior lecturer in social work at the School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work at Queen's University Belfast. Following some ten years as a social work practitioner in child and family social work, he is now involved in research in this area. *Correspondence to …
Child Welfare as Child Protection Then and Now
The research reported here builds on the work of one of the authors who, some thirteen years ago, in a similar study, examined the potential for social workers to shift from a child protection to a child welfare practice orientation. As with the original research study, this present project seeks to examine the everyday practices of social workers with children and families as revealed by file analysis, vignette questionnaires (reported here) and…
Prevalence of Adverse Childhood Experiences in a University Population
This paper is part of a series published by the Multiple Adverse Childhood Experiences research group based at Queen's University Belfast. First-year undergraduates took part in an online survey, self-reporting on Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) and measures of social service contact. The ten-item ACE questionnaire measures abuse, neglect and household dysfunction (current sample α = 0.711). The study achieved a response rate of 18.6 per cent…
Decision making in child protection
Child Protection in Europe
We report a five-nations project in comparative child protection to provide recommendations on policy and practice to inform the redevelopment of the Swiss child protection system. The Swiss Federal Government and the Optimus and Oak Foundations commissioned the project—collective title: Association Programme National pour la Protection de l'Enfant. We identify the historical developmental trajectories of child protection systems together with co…
Children Exposed to Domestic Violence
The identification of those children with high probability of experiencing poor health and social outcomes over the life course is a policy and service priority. In this paper, findings from a student population survey (n = 765) to determine the prevalence of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) is reported. It was found that, for those students reporting ACE scores of 1 or more, experience of domestic violence was the best predictor for higher AC…
The Influences of Training and Experience in Removal and Reunification Decisions Involving Children at Risk of Maltreatment
The question of the extent to which qualifying education prepares social work students to become effective practitioners has long been debated. This article reports the quantitative findings of the UK arm of a four-country comparative study that sought to explore one critical quality of a competent social worker—their ability to make decisions about individuals at risk, and to take appropriate action. The study involved 202 social work practition…
Using Adverse Childhood Experience Scores to Better Understand the Needs of Young Carers
We report the results of research into the experiences of young carers in Barnardo’s Young Carers and Action for Children Young Carers projects. The study involved in-depth interviews with young carers, with the aim of better understanding, from their perspective, the impact of caring on their lives. We employed the ten-item Adverse Childhood Experiences questionnaire in secondary analysis of the data. Results reveal that numbers of adverse child…
Adverse Childhood Experiences
While an adverse childhood experience (ACE)-informed approach to child protection and welfare has become influential in USA, it has had markedly less influence in UK, this despite growth in adoption of ACE research as a basis for understanding population needs and aligning service delivery amongst policymakers and other professional groups. In this article, we note the development of ACE research and draw out implications for social work with chi…
Young Carers in Northern Ireland
This paper reports findings from a qualitative study undertaken with twenty-two young carers across Northern Ireland aged between eight and eighteen. It focuses on their experiences as informal care-givers in households where at least one family member was living with an illness and/or disability. While much has been written about the quantifiable aspects of informal care including the number of hours spent caring and the physical nature of carin…
Adverse Childhood Experiences
Research has demonstrated conclusively that the experience of adversities in childhood increases the risks for poor outcomes in the domains of physical and mental health and economic and social circumstances across the life course. This has produced a wave of interest in the effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences internationally, with developments in policy across the UK nations reflective of this. The translation of such research and policy de…
Opening the Time Capsule of ACEs
In this article, we engage with some of the fundamental concepts underpinning the original adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) study and subsequent work, whilst recognising that the terminology of ACEs has in some ways become reductionist and problematic. Although an imperfect concept covering a range of childhood adversities at a personal, intrapersonal and community level, ACEs have utility in bridging scientific and lay communities. The evide…
Outcomes for Families Referred to Family Centres
There is growing interest in the development of evidence supporting therapeutic interventions in social work. Few examples, however, exist, of the use of validated instrumentation in measuring the impact of services upon children and families. We report here on the use of a suite of validated instruments to measure the impact of services on children and their parents in receipt of services provided by an Irish Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) …
Adverse Childhood Experiences and Social Work
Individuals with higher numbers of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) have been found to be overrepresented amongst users of social services. This poses challenges for service providers in seeking ways to incorporate knowledge about ACEs in the calibration of service provision, and for social workers as to how they might use such knowledge in their day-to-day practice. The key contribution of this article is as a position piece that aims to map…
New understandings in childhood research and their implications for child and family services
In recent times the production of research linking childhood experiences with later life outcomes has had the effect of producing new understandings of child development, with increased attribution given to this stage in the life cycle as being foundational for future outcomes. In turn, this has generated the development of models which combine physiological, psychological and social impacts of adversity to challenge services to deliver intervent…
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