David C Howe
Biographic Data
| ID | 6085360 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David C Howe |
| GIVEN NAMES | David C |
| FAMILY NAME | Howe |
| SIGNATURE | HOWE D C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of East Anglia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2929-348X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 105 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Paradigm shifts caused by the Covid-19 pandemic
The experience of Jordanian care leavers making the transition from residential care to adulthood: The influence of a patriarchal and collectivist culture
The Emotionally Intelligent Social Worker
Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Titles, this key textbook offers an insight on the theory of emotional intelligence and its vital practical value. Elegantly and succinctly written, it makes
Disabled children, parent–child interaction and attachment
Although caregiver factors are generally considered the more potent in determining children's attachment organization, a number of child factors have also been considered. Among these have been temperament and disabilities. The present paper examines the effect of various types of children's disability on parent–child interactions, including how disabilities affect parental sensitivity and communications. A brief outline of attachment theory and …
Disabled Children, Maltreatment and Attachment
Two bodies of literature on children with disabilities are identified and described. One recognizes an association between disability and maltreatment. The other finds an association between children with a disability and insecure attachments. The present paper seeks a theoretical integration between these two research traditions. The model generated examines the dynamics that affect a child with a disability’s attachment classification and risk …
Child Abuse and Neglect: Attachment, Development, and Intervention
This exciting new book offers a survey of the field of child abuse and neglect from the perspective of modern developmental attachment theory. The book opens with an account of the theory and describes the ways in which attachment difficulties manifest themselves in children's behaviour. The following three sections look at abuse, neglect, and compound cases of abuse and neglect, backing this up with empirical research evidence and vivid case mat…
Open adoption records, the human rights of adopted people, and discrimination: The case of Odièvre v France 2003
The recent judgement by the European Court of Human Rights in the Odièvre v France case has denied some adopted people the right to access identifying information about their family of origin. Yet, in the UK, adopted people have enjoyed the right to access identifying information for many years. The evidence from practice and research has demonstrated the positive benefits adopted people and their birth and adoptive relatives have gained from an …
Age at placement and adult adopted people's experience of being adopted
Older age at placement has long been recognized as a risk factor in successful adoption outcomes. The findings of the present study emerged as part of a larger study that looked at the adoption experiences and reunion outcomes of 472 adults who had either searched for or been sought by one or more of their birth relatives. As part of the investigation, adopted adults were asked to evaluate their adoption experience. Age at placement was used as a…
The Long-term Outcome of Reunions Between Adult Adopted People and their Birth Mothers
Increasing numbers of adult adopted people are searching for and having reunions with their birth relatives. Although a growing number of studies now exist that have looked at the search and reunion process, few have examined reunion outcomes over the long term. The present study investigated the experiences of 48 adult adopted people who first had contact with their birth mothers at least eight years prior to the survey. Outcomes were examined i…
Searching, Reunion and Transracial Adoption
Derek Kirton, Julia Feast and David Howe Report on findings from qualitative interviews with transracially adopted adults, carried out as part of a research project by The Children's Society. Findings show that those adopted transracially shared many experiences with other adopted people, including almost invariably feeling that they have gained from searching and/or reunion. For many transracially adopted people, issues of racial and ethnic iden…
Attachment Theory, Child Maltreatment and Family Support
Disorders of Attachment and Attachment Therapy
Many adopted and looked after children with histories of physical and sexual abuse, and severe loss and neglect, develop highly disturbed and distinctive problem behaviours. Those diagnosed suffering such ‘disorders of attachment’ put great stress on the resources and skills of their post-placement carers. Children with these behaviours have proved very difficult to treat. However, as David Howe and Sheila Fearnley discuss in their paper below, a…
Relationship-based thinking and practice in social work
Relationships with the users of social work are increasingly seen in procedural, legal and administrative terms. However, research studies examining both client satisfaction and intervention effectiveness regularly find that the psychosocial qualities of the worker-client relationship are a major component in the success or otherwise of the service offered. The case is made that the psychological selves of both practitioners and users acquire man…
Adoption Outcome Research and Practical Judgment
Psychosocial and relationship‐based theories for child and family social work: Political philosophy, psychology and welfare practice
Psychosocial perspectives on children’s development are allied to theories that recognize the ‘self’ as essentially a social entity. The quality of relationships that children experience in their social environment have a profound effect on their socio‐emotional development, personality formation and social competence. To this extent, psychosocial theories of children’s development and wellbeing can provide child and family social workers with a …
Adopted Adults Who Search for Background Information and Contact with Birth Relatives
As part of its work with adopters, adopted people and their birth relatives, the Children's Society Post-adoption and Care Counselling Research Project is engaged in a number of studies looking at adopted people's experiences of seeking background information and contact with birth relatives. Between 1988 and 1995, project workers provided advice and counselling beyond initial contact to 366 adopted people seeking information and possible reunion…
Adopters' Relationships with Their Adopted Children from Adolescence to Early Adulthood
Problematic behaviour in adopted teenage children often stems from their very early experiences. In examining the evolution of the relationship between parents and their adopted children from adolescence to early adulthood David Howe identifies three types of adoption, each associated with a distinct pattern of pre-placement care. On the basis of this classification the quality of parent-child relationships is explored at two key stages: when the…
Attachment Theory for Social Work Practice
The quality of early social relationships has a deep bearing on our psychological and social development; adversity in childhood can lead to adult relationships that may be difficult and distressing.
Adoption and Attachment
Children's early attachment experiences can have a dramatic affect on their day-to-day behaviour, as well as on their social development in later life. Drawing from extensive interviews with adoptive parents, all of whose children were in their late adolescence or young adults at the time of research, David Howe asserts the value of understanding the influence of past care on present placements
Child Abuse and the Bureaucratisation of Social Work
Child abuse became a public issue in the early 1970s. The alleged failure of social workers and welfare agencies to prevent children being killed by their parents and caretakers led to changes in the practice and organisation in child abuse work. The way public inquiries and government departments framed the problem of child abuse produced solutions which were essentially legalistic and bureaucratic. No longer was the aim to rehabilitate poorly f…
The Post-Adoption Centre: The First Three Years
Approval Vs Preparation: Adoptive Parents' Views of the Adoption Process
Adopted Children Referred to a Child and Family Centre
The segregation of women and their work in the personal social services
The majority of basic grade social workers are women bet the great ma jority of management in the personal social services are men. Women in the personal social services are mare involved than men in low status tend ing work, particularly curing for the elderly. There is a vertical and hori zontal sexual division of labour in social work. The Seebohm reorganis ation extiended and strengihened male dominance in management. This paper critically re…
On the Creation of Truth
Adopted Adults Who Search for Background Information and Contact with Birth Relatives
As part of its work with adopters, adopted people and their birth relatives, the Children's Society Post-adoption and Care Counselling Research Project is engaged in a number of studies looking at adopted people's experiences of seeking background information and contact with birth relatives. Between 1988 and 1995, project workers provided advice and counselling beyond initial contact to 366 adopted people seeking information and possible reunion…
The experience of Jordanian care leavers making the transition from residential care to adulthood: The influence of a patriarchal and collectivist culture
Child Abuse and the Bureaucratisation of Social Work
Child abuse became a public issue in the early 1970s. The alleged failure of social workers and welfare agencies to prevent children being killed by their parents and caretakers led to changes in the practice and organisation in child abuse work. The way public inquiries and government departments framed the problem of child abuse produced solutions which were essentially legalistic and bureaucratic. No longer was the aim to rehabilitate poorly f…
Psychosocial and relationship‐based theories for child and family social work: Political philosophy, psychology and welfare practice
Psychosocial perspectives on children’s development are allied to theories that recognize the ‘self’ as essentially a social entity. The quality of relationships that children experience in their social environment have a profound effect on their socio‐emotional development, personality formation and social competence. To this extent, psychosocial theories of children’s development and wellbeing can provide child and family social workers with a …
Adoption and Attachment
Children's early attachment experiences can have a dramatic affect on their day-to-day behaviour, as well as on their social development in later life. Drawing from extensive interviews with adoptive parents, all of whose children were in their late adolescence or young adults at the time of research, David Howe asserts the value of understanding the influence of past care on present placements
Disorders of Attachment and Attachment Therapy
Many adopted and looked after children with histories of physical and sexual abuse, and severe loss and neglect, develop highly disturbed and distinctive problem behaviours. Those diagnosed suffering such ‘disorders of attachment’ put great stress on the resources and skills of their post-placement carers. Children with these behaviours have proved very difficult to treat. However, as David Howe and Sheila Fearnley discuss in their paper below, a…
Adopters' Relationships with Their Adopted Children from Adolescence to Early Adulthood
Problematic behaviour in adopted teenage children often stems from their very early experiences. In examining the evolution of the relationship between parents and their adopted children from adolescence to early adulthood David Howe identifies three types of adoption, each associated with a distinct pattern of pre-placement care. On the basis of this classification the quality of parent-child relationships is explored at two key stages: when the…
Disabled children, parent–child interaction and attachment
Although caregiver factors are generally considered the more potent in determining children's attachment organization, a number of child factors have also been considered. Among these have been temperament and disabilities. The present paper examines the effect of various types of children's disability on parent–child interactions, including how disabilities affect parental sensitivity and communications. A brief outline of attachment theory and …
Searching, Reunion and Transracial Adoption
Derek Kirton, Julia Feast and David Howe Report on findings from qualitative interviews with transracially adopted adults, carried out as part of a research project by The Children's Society. Findings show that those adopted transracially shared many experiences with other adopted people, including almost invariably feeling that they have gained from searching and/or reunion. For many transracially adopted people, issues of racial and ethnic iden…
Adoption Outcome Research and Practical Judgment
Disabled Children, Maltreatment and Attachment
Two bodies of literature on children with disabilities are identified and described. One recognizes an association between disability and maltreatment. The other finds an association between children with a disability and insecure attachments. The present paper seeks a theoretical integration between these two research traditions. The model generated examines the dynamics that affect a child with a disability’s attachment classification and risk …
The Long-term Outcome of Reunions Between Adult Adopted People and their Birth Mothers
Increasing numbers of adult adopted people are searching for and having reunions with their birth relatives. Although a growing number of studies now exist that have looked at the search and reunion process, few have examined reunion outcomes over the long term. The present study investigated the experiences of 48 adult adopted people who first had contact with their birth mothers at least eight years prior to the survey. Outcomes were examined i…
Age at placement and adult adopted people's experience of being adopted
Older age at placement has long been recognized as a risk factor in successful adoption outcomes. The findings of the present study emerged as part of a larger study that looked at the adoption experiences and reunion outcomes of 472 adults who had either searched for or been sought by one or more of their birth relatives. As part of the investigation, adopted adults were asked to evaluate their adoption experience. Age at placement was used as a…
Adopted Children Referred to a Child and Family Centre
The Post-Adoption Centre: The First Three Years
On the Creation of Truth
The segregation of women and their work in the personal social services
The majority of basic grade social workers are women bet the great ma jority of management in the personal social services are men. Women in the personal social services are mare involved than men in low status tend ing work, particularly curing for the elderly. There is a vertical and hori zontal sexual division of labour in social work. The Seebohm reorganis ation extiended and strengihened male dominance in management. This paper critically re…
Adopted Children Referred to a Child and Family Centre
Approval Vs Preparation: Adoptive Parents' Views of the Adoption Process
The Post-Adoption Centre: The First Three Years
Child Abuse and the Bureaucratisation of Social Work
Child abuse became a public issue in the early 1970s. The alleged failure of social workers and welfare agencies to prevent children being killed by their parents and caretakers led to changes in the practice and organisation in child abuse work. The way public inquiries and government departments framed the problem of child abuse produced solutions which were essentially legalistic and bureaucratic. No longer was the aim to rehabilitate poorly f…
Attachment Theory for Social Work Practice
The quality of early social relationships has a deep bearing on our psychological and social development; adversity in childhood can lead to adult relationships that may be difficult and distressing.
Adoption and Attachment
Children's early attachment experiences can have a dramatic affect on their day-to-day behaviour, as well as on their social development in later life. Drawing from extensive interviews with adoptive parents, all of whose children were in their late adolescence or young adults at the time of research, David Howe asserts the value of understanding the influence of past care on present placements
Adopters' Relationships with Their Adopted Children from Adolescence to Early Adulthood
Problematic behaviour in adopted teenage children often stems from their very early experiences. In examining the evolution of the relationship between parents and their adopted children from adolescence to early adulthood David Howe identifies three types of adoption, each associated with a distinct pattern of pre-placement care. On the basis of this classification the quality of parent-child relationships is explored at two key stages: when the…
Psychosocial and relationship‐based theories for child and family social work: Political philosophy, psychology and welfare practice
Psychosocial perspectives on children’s development are allied to theories that recognize the ‘self’ as essentially a social entity. The quality of relationships that children experience in their social environment have a profound effect on their socio‐emotional development, personality formation and social competence. To this extent, psychosocial theories of children’s development and wellbeing can provide child and family social workers with a …
Adopted Adults Who Search for Background Information and Contact with Birth Relatives
As part of its work with adopters, adopted people and their birth relatives, the Children's Society Post-adoption and Care Counselling Research Project is engaged in a number of studies looking at adopted people's experiences of seeking background information and contact with birth relatives. Between 1988 and 1995, project workers provided advice and counselling beyond initial contact to 366 adopted people seeking information and possible reunion…
Relationship-based thinking and practice in social work
Relationships with the users of social work are increasingly seen in procedural, legal and administrative terms. However, research studies examining both client satisfaction and intervention effectiveness regularly find that the psychosocial qualities of the worker-client relationship are a major component in the success or otherwise of the service offered. The case is made that the psychological selves of both practitioners and users acquire man…
Adoption Outcome Research and Practical Judgment
Attachment Theory, Child Maltreatment and Family Support
Disorders of Attachment and Attachment Therapy
Many adopted and looked after children with histories of physical and sexual abuse, and severe loss and neglect, develop highly disturbed and distinctive problem behaviours. Those diagnosed suffering such ‘disorders of attachment’ put great stress on the resources and skills of their post-placement carers. Children with these behaviours have proved very difficult to treat. However, as David Howe and Sheila Fearnley discuss in their paper below, a…
Searching, Reunion and Transracial Adoption
Derek Kirton, Julia Feast and David Howe Report on findings from qualitative interviews with transracially adopted adults, carried out as part of a research project by The Children's Society. Findings show that those adopted transracially shared many experiences with other adopted people, including almost invariably feeling that they have gained from searching and/or reunion. For many transracially adopted people, issues of racial and ethnic iden…
Age at placement and adult adopted people's experience of being adopted
Older age at placement has long been recognized as a risk factor in successful adoption outcomes. The findings of the present study emerged as part of a larger study that looked at the adoption experiences and reunion outcomes of 472 adults who had either searched for or been sought by one or more of their birth relatives. As part of the investigation, adopted adults were asked to evaluate their adoption experience. Age at placement was used as a…
The Long-term Outcome of Reunions Between Adult Adopted People and their Birth Mothers
Increasing numbers of adult adopted people are searching for and having reunions with their birth relatives. Although a growing number of studies now exist that have looked at the search and reunion process, few have examined reunion outcomes over the long term. The present study investigated the experiences of 48 adult adopted people who first had contact with their birth mothers at least eight years prior to the survey. Outcomes were examined i…
Open adoption records, the human rights of adopted people, and discrimination: The case of Odièvre v France 2003
The recent judgement by the European Court of Human Rights in the Odièvre v France case has denied some adopted people the right to access identifying information about their family of origin. Yet, in the UK, adopted people have enjoyed the right to access identifying information for many years. The evidence from practice and research has demonstrated the positive benefits adopted people and their birth and adoptive relatives have gained from an …
Child Abuse and Neglect: Attachment, Development, and Intervention
This exciting new book offers a survey of the field of child abuse and neglect from the perspective of modern developmental attachment theory. The book opens with an account of the theory and describes the ways in which attachment difficulties manifest themselves in children's behaviour. The following three sections look at abuse, neglect, and compound cases of abuse and neglect, backing this up with empirical research evidence and vivid case mat…
Disabled children, parent–child interaction and attachment
Although caregiver factors are generally considered the more potent in determining children's attachment organization, a number of child factors have also been considered. Among these have been temperament and disabilities. The present paper examines the effect of various types of children's disability on parent–child interactions, including how disabilities affect parental sensitivity and communications. A brief outline of attachment theory and …
Disabled Children, Maltreatment and Attachment
Two bodies of literature on children with disabilities are identified and described. One recognizes an association between disability and maltreatment. The other finds an association between children with a disability and insecure attachments. The present paper seeks a theoretical integration between these two research traditions. The model generated examines the dynamics that affect a child with a disability’s attachment classification and risk …
The Emotionally Intelligent Social Worker
Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Titles, this key textbook offers an insight on the theory of emotional intelligence and its vital practical value. Elegantly and succinctly written, it makes
The experience of Jordanian care leavers making the transition from residential care to adulthood: The influence of a patriarchal and collectivist culture
Paradigm shifts caused by the Covid-19 pandemic
Psychology (22 works) · Child Welfare and Adoption (16 works) · Developmental psychology (11 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Family Dynamics and Relationships (7 works) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (6 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works)