S Holland
Biographic Data
| ID | 5734041 |
|---|---|
| NAME | S Holland |
| GIVEN NAMES | S |
| FAMILY NAME | Holland |
| SIGNATURE | HOLLAND S |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7532-3424 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 90 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
No Matter What: An Adoptive Family's Story of Hope, Love and Healing
This book is a first-hand narration by Sally Donovan of her and her husband Rob's journey through infertility and the adoption of siblings Jamie and Rose (the names are pseudonyms). The book is funny and moving and has great narrative drive. I found it compelling. Donovan does not give advice, nor link to the wider picture of adoption, and this works well. It is not attempting to be a textbook. It is intensely individual story, but this story spe…
Parenting and Substance Misuse: Understanding Accounts and Realities in Child Protection Contexts
This paper reports qualitative findings from a mixed-methods evaluation of an intervention for families affected by substance misuse and child protection concerns. The study involved twenty-seven families, including eighty-four children. The data illustrate the various impacts of substance misuse on family life, including neglect, instability and physical and sexual abuse. During semi-structured interviews, many of the parents went some way to co…
Trust in the Community: Understanding the Relationship between Formal, Semi-Formal and Informal Child Safeguarding in a Local Neighbourhood
This paper explores the concept of safeguarding children being ‘everybody's business’ as it is experienced in one neighbourhood in south Wales, UK. Safeguarding is defined here as the protection of children and the enhancement of their well-being. A qualitative case study design engaged residents of all ages, community sector workers and statutory sector workers in discussions about children's safeguarding in their neighbourhood. The analysis foc…
Understanding Neighbourhoods, Communities and Environments: New Approaches for Social Work Research
This article discusses some new ways in which social work research can explore the interaction between neighbourhoods and child and adult wellbeing. The authors note that social work practices are often criticised for taking an individualistic approach and paying too little attention to the service user's environment. The article uses examples of research projects from Chile, the United States of America and Wales, to discuss the use of spatially…
Representing Children's Identities in Core Assessments
This paper reports findings from a qualitative research study of twenty-six core assessments, concerning thirty-two children, completed over a six-month period in one Welsh local authority. The data reported in the paper come from the twenty-six written assessment reports and interviews with the thirteen social workers who completed the assessments. The study was concerned with how social workers assess and report on children's identities. Identi…
Looked After Children and the Ethic of Care
This paper draws on the growing field of literature that discusses the relevance of the ethic of care to social work. It is argued that an ethic of justice predominates in looked after children policies and practice, which can serve to underplay the relevance of the traits associated with an ethic of care. Using case examples from a small-scale longitudinal qualitative study of looked after children and care-leavers, the author notes that care is…
Everyone Started Shouting: Making Connections between the Process of Family Group Conferences and Family Therapy Practice
This article presents findings from a qualitative study of family group conferences (FGCs) in Wales, UK. The study examined the process of seventeen FGCs involving twenty-five young people, using semi-structured interviews, analysis of documents and collection of data on welfare outcomes. Young people were re-interviewed after six months. The article focuses on the data concerning reported communications between family members during the family m…
Promoting stability and continuity of care for looked after children: A survey and critical review
This paper reports on a two-pronged research study: a critical review of reported research concerning continuity and stability for children looked after away from home, and a telephone survey of UK managers responsible for looked after children. The review found limited research in this specific field that met the criteria of the critical review, but reports some evidence in favour of sibling co-placement, kinship care, parental participation, pr…
Liberty and Respect in Child Protection
The paper begins by introducing Isaiah Berlin's concepts of positive and negative liberty and the application of these concepts to child protection. There is discussion of some recent debates on the social and political context of state social work and child protection in particular. The authors then consider, in turn, the experience of children, parents and social workers in the child protection system. There is also a consideration of partnersh…
Knowledge about HIV/Aids, the perceived risks of infection and sources of information of Asian-Indian adolescents born in the USA
This study examined the extent and specificity of knowledge about HIV/AIDS, the most used sources of information and the usefulness of these sources among Asian-Indian adolescents who were born in the USA and whose parents emigrated from India. Although 86% knew that having unsafe sex with a person infected with HIV could transmit HIV, 47% did not know that sharing a razor with an HIV-positive person could do so, and a significant proportion beli…
The assessment relationship: Interactions between social workers and parents in child protection assessments
This paper is concerned with a relatively unresearched area of child protection practice: the comprehensive assessment. The study comprises qualitative research of social workers conducting these assessments. Sixteen assessments are analysed in detail. It is noted that these assessments, like many other in-depth social work assessments, are mainly based on verbal interactions. Some of the core evidence cited by social workers as forming the basis…
Discourses of Decision Making in Child Protection: Condusting Comprehensive Assessments in Britain
Findings from a qualitative study of comprehensive assessments in child protection social work in the UK are discussed. The accounts of social workers in formal interviews, informal interactions and case files are analysed, examining their explanations and understandings of the process of decision making. Two discourses of decision making are discerned: scientific observation and reflective evaluation. Whilst most social workers understand their …
The State as Entrepreneur. New Dimensions for Public Enterprise: The IRI State Shareholding Formula
Journal Article Holland (S.), (Ed.). The State as Entrepreneur Get access The State as Entrepreneur. New Dimensions for Public Enterprise: the IRI State Shareholding Formula. Edited by S. Holland. (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1972. Pp. x + 326. £340.) M. Howe M. Howe University of Sheffield Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 82, Issue 328, 1 December 1972, Pages 1428–1430, http…
The assessment relationship: Interactions between social workers and parents in child protection assessments
This paper is concerned with a relatively unresearched area of child protection practice: the comprehensive assessment. The study comprises qualitative research of social workers conducting these assessments. Sixteen assessments are analysed in detail. It is noted that these assessments, like many other in-depth social work assessments, are mainly based on verbal interactions. Some of the core evidence cited by social workers as forming the basis…
Looked After Children and the Ethic of Care
This paper draws on the growing field of literature that discusses the relevance of the ethic of care to social work. It is argued that an ethic of justice predominates in looked after children policies and practice, which can serve to underplay the relevance of the traits associated with an ethic of care. Using case examples from a small-scale longitudinal qualitative study of looked after children and care-leavers, the author notes that care is…
Promoting stability and continuity of care for looked after children: A survey and critical review
This paper reports on a two-pronged research study: a critical review of reported research concerning continuity and stability for children looked after away from home, and a telephone survey of UK managers responsible for looked after children. The review found limited research in this specific field that met the criteria of the critical review, but reports some evidence in favour of sibling co-placement, kinship care, parental participation, pr…
Liberty and Respect in Child Protection
The paper begins by introducing Isaiah Berlin's concepts of positive and negative liberty and the application of these concepts to child protection. There is discussion of some recent debates on the social and political context of state social work and child protection in particular. The authors then consider, in turn, the experience of children, parents and social workers in the child protection system. There is also a consideration of partnersh…
Understanding Neighbourhoods, Communities and Environments: New Approaches for Social Work Research
This article discusses some new ways in which social work research can explore the interaction between neighbourhoods and child and adult wellbeing. The authors note that social work practices are often criticised for taking an individualistic approach and paying too little attention to the service user's environment. The article uses examples of research projects from Chile, the United States of America and Wales, to discuss the use of spatially…
Representing Children's Identities in Core Assessments
This paper reports findings from a qualitative research study of twenty-six core assessments, concerning thirty-two children, completed over a six-month period in one Welsh local authority. The data reported in the paper come from the twenty-six written assessment reports and interviews with the thirteen social workers who completed the assessments. The study was concerned with how social workers assess and report on children's identities. Identi…
Trust in the Community: Understanding the Relationship between Formal, Semi-Formal and Informal Child Safeguarding in a Local Neighbourhood
This paper explores the concept of safeguarding children being ‘everybody's business’ as it is experienced in one neighbourhood in south Wales, UK. Safeguarding is defined here as the protection of children and the enhancement of their well-being. A qualitative case study design engaged residents of all ages, community sector workers and statutory sector workers in discussions about children's safeguarding in their neighbourhood. The analysis foc…
The State as Entrepreneur. New Dimensions for Public Enterprise: The IRI State Shareholding Formula
Journal Article Holland (S.), (Ed.). The State as Entrepreneur Get access The State as Entrepreneur. New Dimensions for Public Enterprise: the IRI State Shareholding Formula. Edited by S. Holland. (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1972. Pp. x + 326. £340.) M. Howe M. Howe University of Sheffield Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 82, Issue 328, 1 December 1972, Pages 1428–1430, http…
Parenting and Substance Misuse: Understanding Accounts and Realities in Child Protection Contexts
This paper reports qualitative findings from a mixed-methods evaluation of an intervention for families affected by substance misuse and child protection concerns. The study involved twenty-seven families, including eighty-four children. The data illustrate the various impacts of substance misuse on family life, including neglect, instability and physical and sexual abuse. During semi-structured interviews, many of the parents went some way to co…
Everyone Started Shouting: Making Connections between the Process of Family Group Conferences and Family Therapy Practice
This article presents findings from a qualitative study of family group conferences (FGCs) in Wales, UK. The study examined the process of seventeen FGCs involving twenty-five young people, using semi-structured interviews, analysis of documents and collection of data on welfare outcomes. Young people were re-interviewed after six months. The article focuses on the data concerning reported communications between family members during the family m…
Discourses of Decision Making in Child Protection: Condusting Comprehensive Assessments in Britain
Findings from a qualitative study of comprehensive assessments in child protection social work in the UK are discussed. The accounts of social workers in formal interviews, informal interactions and case files are analysed, examining their explanations and understandings of the process of decision making. Two discourses of decision making are discerned: scientific observation and reflective evaluation. Whilst most social workers understand their …
The State as Entrepreneur. New Dimensions for Public Enterprise: The IRI State Shareholding Formula
Journal Article Holland (S.), (Ed.). The State as Entrepreneur Get access The State as Entrepreneur. New Dimensions for Public Enterprise: the IRI State Shareholding Formula. Edited by S. Holland. (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1972. Pp. x + 326. £340.) M. Howe M. Howe University of Sheffield Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 82, Issue 328, 1 December 1972, Pages 1428–1430, http…
Discourses of Decision Making in Child Protection: Condusting Comprehensive Assessments in Britain
Findings from a qualitative study of comprehensive assessments in child protection social work in the UK are discussed. The accounts of social workers in formal interviews, informal interactions and case files are analysed, examining their explanations and understandings of the process of decision making. Two discourses of decision making are discerned: scientific observation and reflective evaluation. Whilst most social workers understand their …
Knowledge about HIV/Aids, the perceived risks of infection and sources of information of Asian-Indian adolescents born in the USA
This study examined the extent and specificity of knowledge about HIV/AIDS, the most used sources of information and the usefulness of these sources among Asian-Indian adolescents who were born in the USA and whose parents emigrated from India. Although 86% knew that having unsafe sex with a person infected with HIV could transmit HIV, 47% did not know that sharing a razor with an HIV-positive person could do so, and a significant proportion beli…
The assessment relationship: Interactions between social workers and parents in child protection assessments
This paper is concerned with a relatively unresearched area of child protection practice: the comprehensive assessment. The study comprises qualitative research of social workers conducting these assessments. Sixteen assessments are analysed in detail. It is noted that these assessments, like many other in-depth social work assessments, are mainly based on verbal interactions. Some of the core evidence cited by social workers as forming the basis…
Liberty and Respect in Child Protection
The paper begins by introducing Isaiah Berlin's concepts of positive and negative liberty and the application of these concepts to child protection. There is discussion of some recent debates on the social and political context of state social work and child protection in particular. The authors then consider, in turn, the experience of children, parents and social workers in the child protection system. There is also a consideration of partnersh…
Promoting stability and continuity of care for looked after children: A survey and critical review
This paper reports on a two-pronged research study: a critical review of reported research concerning continuity and stability for children looked after away from home, and a telephone survey of UK managers responsible for looked after children. The review found limited research in this specific field that met the criteria of the critical review, but reports some evidence in favour of sibling co-placement, kinship care, parental participation, pr…
Everyone Started Shouting: Making Connections between the Process of Family Group Conferences and Family Therapy Practice
This article presents findings from a qualitative study of family group conferences (FGCs) in Wales, UK. The study examined the process of seventeen FGCs involving twenty-five young people, using semi-structured interviews, analysis of documents and collection of data on welfare outcomes. Young people were re-interviewed after six months. The article focuses on the data concerning reported communications between family members during the family m…
Representing Children's Identities in Core Assessments
This paper reports findings from a qualitative research study of twenty-six core assessments, concerning thirty-two children, completed over a six-month period in one Welsh local authority. The data reported in the paper come from the twenty-six written assessment reports and interviews with the thirteen social workers who completed the assessments. The study was concerned with how social workers assess and report on children's identities. Identi…
Looked After Children and the Ethic of Care
This paper draws on the growing field of literature that discusses the relevance of the ethic of care to social work. It is argued that an ethic of justice predominates in looked after children policies and practice, which can serve to underplay the relevance of the traits associated with an ethic of care. Using case examples from a small-scale longitudinal qualitative study of looked after children and care-leavers, the author notes that care is…
Understanding Neighbourhoods, Communities and Environments: New Approaches for Social Work Research
This article discusses some new ways in which social work research can explore the interaction between neighbourhoods and child and adult wellbeing. The authors note that social work practices are often criticised for taking an individualistic approach and paying too little attention to the service user's environment. The article uses examples of research projects from Chile, the United States of America and Wales, to discuss the use of spatially…
Parenting and Substance Misuse: Understanding Accounts and Realities in Child Protection Contexts
This paper reports qualitative findings from a mixed-methods evaluation of an intervention for families affected by substance misuse and child protection concerns. The study involved twenty-seven families, including eighty-four children. The data illustrate the various impacts of substance misuse on family life, including neglect, instability and physical and sexual abuse. During semi-structured interviews, many of the parents went some way to co…
Trust in the Community: Understanding the Relationship between Formal, Semi-Formal and Informal Child Safeguarding in a Local Neighbourhood
This paper explores the concept of safeguarding children being ‘everybody's business’ as it is experienced in one neighbourhood in south Wales, UK. Safeguarding is defined here as the protection of children and the enhancement of their well-being. A qualitative case study design engaged residents of all ages, community sector workers and statutory sector workers in discussions about children's safeguarding in their neighbourhood. The analysis foc…
No Matter What: An Adoptive Family's Story of Hope, Love and Healing
This book is a first-hand narration by Sally Donovan of her and her husband Rob's journey through infertility and the adoption of siblings Jamie and Rose (the names are pseudonyms). The book is funny and moving and has great narrative drive. I found it compelling. Donovan does not give advice, nor link to the wider picture of adoption, and this works well. It is not attempting to be a textbook. It is intensely individual story, but this story spe…
Political science (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Social Work (8 works) · Social Work Education and Practice (7 works) · Child Abuse and Trauma (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Social science (6 works) · Child protection (5 works)