Karen Baistow
Biographic Data
| ID | 6301640 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karen Baistow |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karen |
| FAMILY NAME | Baistow |
| SIGNATURE | BAISTOW K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brunel University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Helping parents, protecting children
This paper focuses on the help‐seeking process in the field of child welfare and, with a view to identifying some of the key conditions which facilitate the process, it examines the ways in which the German system responds to parental requests for help. It is based on recent comparative studies between English users of child welfare and protection services and a similar group in Germany and on discussions with German and English social workers. I…
Helping parents, protecting children
Problems of powerlessness
This article concerns the emergence of psychological constructs of personal power and control in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s and the ways in which they contributed to contemporary political explanations of social unrest. While social scientists and politicians at the time saw this unrest as a social problem that posed threats to social cohesion and stability, they located its cause not in the power structure of society but in the…
Problems of powerlessness
This article concerns the emergence of psychological constructs of personal power and control in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s and the ways in which they contributed to contemporary political explanations of social unrest. While social scientists and politicians at the time saw this unrest as a social problem that posed threats to social cohesion and stability, they located its cause not in the power structure of society but in the…
Parents' experiences of child welfare interventions
This paper reports on an Anglo‐French project comparing parental experiences of child welfare interventions in both countries; it does not aim to discuss policy implications but to raise questions about the basis on which policies are decided. We explored differences and similarities in the two countries' systems and practices by asking what it is like to be on the receiving end of professional decisions and actions in order to highlight those as…
Parents' experiences of child welfare interventions
This paper reports on an Anglo-French project comparing parental experiences of child welfare interventions in both countries; it does not aim to discuss policy implications but to raise questions about the basis on which policies are decided. We explored differences and similarities in the two countries' systems and practices by asking what it is like to be on the receiving end of professional decisions and actions in order to highlight those as…
From Sickly Survival to the Realisation of Potential
During the last century the improvement of child health has become an important matter of public concern, reflecting preoccupations with the quality of the future adult population as well as with the current welfare of children. This paper traces some of the changing ideas and practices associated with this social project, from the late nineteenth century to the postwar years of the twentieth. From a period when survival beyond birth and infancy …
Liberation and regulation? Some paradoxes of empowerment
During the last decade empowerment has emerged as a socially desir able construct and as an organising principle for various forms of personal and social change which focus on exercising the ability to take control of one's life. One notable feature of this development is the appearance of 'empowerment' in a range of views, from the right as well as the left, and its espousal as a quasi-moral principle by a range of fields from human resource man…
Liberation and regulation? Some paradoxes of empowerment
During the last decade empowerment has emerged as a socially desir able construct and as an organising principle for various forms of personal and social change which focus on exercising the ability to take control of one's life. One notable feature of this development is the appearance of 'empowerment' in a range of views, from the right as well as the left, and its espousal as a quasi-moral principle by a range of fields from human resource man…
Problems of powerlessness
This article concerns the emergence of psychological constructs of personal power and control in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s and the ways in which they contributed to contemporary political explanations of social unrest. While social scientists and politicians at the time saw this unrest as a social problem that posed threats to social cohesion and stability, they located its cause not in the power structure of society but in the…
Liberation and regulation? Some paradoxes of empowerment
During the last decade empowerment has emerged as a socially desir able construct and as an organising principle for various forms of personal and social change which focus on exercising the ability to take control of one's life. One notable feature of this development is the appearance of 'empowerment' in a range of views, from the right as well as the left, and its espousal as a quasi-moral principle by a range of fields from human resource man…
From Sickly Survival to the Realisation of Potential
During the last century the improvement of child health has become an important matter of public concern, reflecting preoccupations with the quality of the future adult population as well as with the current welfare of children. This paper traces some of the changing ideas and practices associated with this social project, from the late nineteenth century to the postwar years of the twentieth. From a period when survival beyond birth and infancy …
Parents' experiences of child welfare interventions
This paper reports on an Anglo‐French project comparing parental experiences of child welfare interventions in both countries; it does not aim to discuss policy implications but to raise questions about the basis on which policies are decided. We explored differences and similarities in the two countries' systems and practices by asking what it is like to be on the receiving end of professional decisions and actions in order to highlight those as…
Parents' experiences of child welfare interventions
This paper reports on an Anglo-French project comparing parental experiences of child welfare interventions in both countries; it does not aim to discuss policy implications but to raise questions about the basis on which policies are decided. We explored differences and similarities in the two countries' systems and practices by asking what it is like to be on the receiving end of professional decisions and actions in order to highlight those as…
Helping parents, protecting children
This paper focuses on the help‐seeking process in the field of child welfare and, with a view to identifying some of the key conditions which facilitate the process, it examines the ways in which the German system responds to parental requests for help. It is based on recent comparative studies between English users of child welfare and protection services and a similar group in Germany and on discussions with German and English social workers. I…
Helping parents, protecting children
Problems of powerlessness
This article concerns the emergence of psychological constructs of personal power and control in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s and the ways in which they contributed to contemporary political explanations of social unrest. While social scientists and politicians at the time saw this unrest as a social problem that posed threats to social cohesion and stability, they located its cause not in the power structure of society but in the…
Problems of powerlessness
This article concerns the emergence of psychological constructs of personal power and control in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s and the ways in which they contributed to contemporary political explanations of social unrest. While social scientists and politicians at the time saw this unrest as a social problem that posed threats to social cohesion and stability, they located its cause not in the power structure of society but in the…
Sociology (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Welfare (5 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Social Welfare (4 works) · Child protection (3 works) · Child Welfare and Adoption (3 works)