Chris Warren‐Adamson
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 6464228 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Chris Warren‐Adamson |
| PRENOMES | Chris |
| SOBRENOME | Warren‐Adamson |
| ASSINATURA | ADAMSON C W |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Southampton |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 7 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 3 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 7 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2000 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2013 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Using complexity theory in kinship practice
This reflective discussion draws on data from a collaborative enquiry into kinship or family and friends practice. It introduces perspectives from complexity and chaos theory as a way of re‐examining the challenges of kinship practice. The discussion highlights the enduring challenges for practitioners, not least, managing anxiety and uncertainty, sustaining continuity and containment, becoming experienced and taking account of the complex develo…
Family centres
This article reflects on the significance of family centres in the UK as a mirror of new possibilities for child welfare in the years following the Children Act 1989. The Act empowered local authorities in England and Wales to provide family centres as part of ‘family support practice’. The article reveals a rich vein of family‐centred, centre‐based activity internationally and shows practice combining intervention from the sophisticated to the v…
Exploring Kinship Care through Practitioner Collaborative Enquiry
Chris Warren-Adamson reports on the proceedings of a collaborative enquiry group of eight social workers from one English local authority considering kinship or family and friends care practice. Facilitated by an academic, the group met once a month for the best part of a year to enquire into the implications for practitioners of the authority's strong policy of encouraging kinship placement for looked after children. The article briefly acknowle…
Research Review
This paper provides a review of the literature about family centres and other examples of centre‐based practice. The literature reflects a period of some 25 years in which practice has sought to integrate protection, support for families and local development in local centres. The literature shows great descriptive activity in the 1980s, and some Children Act (1989) sponsored studies, particularly of the voluntary sector, in the early 1990s, foll…
Food, Shelter and Half a Chance
Food, Shelter and Half a Chance: Assessing the Needs of Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children Selam Kidane British Association for Adoption and Fostering, London, 2001(a), 30 pp. £6.50. ISBN 1 903699 02 9 I Did Not Choose to Come Here: Listening to Refugee Children Selam Kidane British Association for Adoption and Fostering, London, 2001(b), 40 pp. £6.95. ISBN 1 903699 03 7 Supporting Refugee Children in 21st Century Britain: A Compendium of Esse…
Myths, Madness and the Family
This book fills a gap in our knowledge about the experiences of families of people suffering from severe mental illness. Original research material is used to support claims that families are struggling with complex feelings such as loss, anger and shame
Children and families in difficulty
This article describes practice in a fieldwork team which runs a service for the court, a Service d'Educationet de Prévention, in a large voluntary organisation in the Manche Department of France1. Features of French social work are highlighted in this account; how the social work plan is described as educational, the prominence of the children's judge le juge des enfants- and the collaborative style of the children's judicial system (Cooper, Het…
Using complexity theory in kinship practice
This reflective discussion draws on data from a collaborative enquiry into kinship or family and friends practice. It introduces perspectives from complexity and chaos theory as a way of re‐examining the challenges of kinship practice. The discussion highlights the enduring challenges for practitioners, not least, managing anxiety and uncertainty, sustaining continuity and containment, becoming experienced and taking account of the complex develo…
Exploring Kinship Care through Practitioner Collaborative Enquiry
Chris Warren-Adamson reports on the proceedings of a collaborative enquiry group of eight social workers from one English local authority considering kinship or family and friends care practice. Facilitated by an academic, the group met once a month for the best part of a year to enquire into the implications for practitioners of the authority's strong policy of encouraging kinship placement for looked after children. The article briefly acknowle…
Children and families in difficulty
This article describes practice in a fieldwork team which runs a service for the court, a Service d'Educationet de Prévention, in a large voluntary organisation in the Manche Department of France1. Features of French social work are highlighted in this account; how the social work plan is described as educational, the prominence of the children's judge le juge des enfants- and the collaborative style of the children's judicial system (Cooper, Het…
Myths, Madness and the Family
This book fills a gap in our knowledge about the experiences of families of people suffering from severe mental illness. Original research material is used to support claims that families are struggling with complex feelings such as loss, anger and shame
Food, Shelter and Half a Chance
Food, Shelter and Half a Chance: Assessing the Needs of Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children Selam Kidane British Association for Adoption and Fostering, London, 2001(a), 30 pp. £6.50. ISBN 1 903699 02 9 I Did Not Choose to Come Here: Listening to Refugee Children Selam Kidane British Association for Adoption and Fostering, London, 2001(b), 40 pp. £6.95. ISBN 1 903699 03 7 Supporting Refugee Children in 21st Century Britain: A Compendium of Esse…
Research Review
This paper provides a review of the literature about family centres and other examples of centre‐based practice. The literature reflects a period of some 25 years in which practice has sought to integrate protection, support for families and local development in local centres. The literature shows great descriptive activity in the 1980s, and some Children Act (1989) sponsored studies, particularly of the voluntary sector, in the early 1990s, foll…
Exploring Kinship Care through Practitioner Collaborative Enquiry
Chris Warren-Adamson reports on the proceedings of a collaborative enquiry group of eight social workers from one English local authority considering kinship or family and friends care practice. Facilitated by an academic, the group met once a month for the best part of a year to enquire into the implications for practitioners of the authority's strong policy of encouraging kinship placement for looked after children. The article briefly acknowle…
Family centres
This article reflects on the significance of family centres in the UK as a mirror of new possibilities for child welfare in the years following the Children Act 1989. The Act empowered local authorities in England and Wales to provide family centres as part of ‘family support practice’. The article reveals a rich vein of family‐centred, centre‐based activity internationally and shows practice combining intervention from the sophisticated to the v…
Using complexity theory in kinship practice
This reflective discussion draws on data from a collaborative enquiry into kinship or family and friends practice. It introduces perspectives from complexity and chaos theory as a way of re‐examining the challenges of kinship practice. The discussion highlights the enduring challenges for practitioners, not least, managing anxiety and uncertainty, sustaining continuity and containment, becoming experienced and taking account of the complex develo…
Sociology (7 obras) · Political science (6 obras) · Law (4 obras) · Law (4 obras) · Public relations (4 obras) · Child Welfare and Adoption (3 obras) · Psychology (3 obras) · Social Work (3 obras) · Computer Science (2 obras) · Context (archaeology (2 obras)