Children's Agency, Children's Welfare

• ISBN13: 9781847424891
• ISBN10: 1847424899
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-09-01
• Publisher: Policy Pr

Summary

Human development is about the growth of agency, which is developed in interaction with their parents and families but if parental agency is insufficient, agency in the form of child welfare will be required to fill the gaps.This book provides an holistic view of how children develop agency, combining social, psychological and child development aspects, as well as examining child welfare structures and the roles of social workers. This focus will make a contribution to current debates about child welfare and child protection and the book will therefore be essential reading for academics and researchers in social work, childhood studies, children's policy and social policy.

Author Biography

Carolus van Nijnatten is a developmental psychologist and Professor of Social Studies in Child Welfare at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. From 2004-09 he was also Professor of Social Work at Radboud University, Nijmegen. His current field of research is interactional analysis of professional interventions in child healthcare and child welfare. He has published books and articles on child welfare, the children of detained parents, psychodynamic developmental psychology, dialogical self theory and institutional communication.

Table of Contents

About the author	p. vi
Introduction	p. 1
Child, welfare, agency	p. 5
The development of individual agency	p. 17
Social interaction and interactive agency	p. 33
Social agency and social context	p. 51
Diagnosis and dialogue	p. 71
Change and co-construction	p. 89
Dialogical management	p. 113
Dialogical child welfare: conclusion	p. 131
References	p. 137
Appendix: Transcript conventions and abbreviations	p. 153
Index	p. 155
Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved.