This book offers a clear and coherent guide to working with families for practitioners and students in social work, health, counselling and related professions. It brings together recent thinking on the historical and contemporary constructions of the family in such a way as to provide a helpful framework for practitioners working in a variety of settings in the field. It offers up-to-date information on political, legislative and theoretical frameworks, and it reviews and illustrates a wide range of approaches and practice skills for working with families with different problems in different contexts.

CHRISTINE SKINNER Lecturer in Social Policy, University of York NICK FROST Senior Lecturer in Continuing Education, University of Leeds BRID FEATHERSTONE, Lecturer in Applied Childhood Studies, University of Huddersfield LIZA BINGLEY MILLER Social Worker, and Chair of the City of York Adoption and Permanency Panel ARNON BENTOVIM Consultant Family and Child Psychiatrist, Harley Street DOROTHY HEARD a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist in private practice UNA MCCLUSKEY Lecturer of Social Policy and Social Work, University of York CHRISTOPHER CLULOW Director of the Tavistock Marital Studies Institute CHRISTOPHER VINCENT Lecturer in Marital Studies at the Tavistock Marital Studies Institute JANE BATCHELOR Senior Lecturer in Social Work, University of Bath STEPH PETRIE Lecturer of Social Work, University of Liverpool DOROTA IWANIEC Director, Institute of Child Care Research, Queen's University, Belfast IAN SINCLAIR Professor of Social Work, University of York

About the Author
Dr MARGARET BELL is Senior Lecturer in Social Work at the University of York. Prior to working at the University of York, she worked as a Senior Social Worker at a number of general and psychiatric hospitals. From 1984 to 1992, she also worked as a guardian ad litem. She has provided consultancy and training to local authorities and to agencies and organisations in the private and voluntary sector, including legal and court forums.

KATE WILSON is Senior Lecturer in Social Work at the University of York and Programme Director for the MA/Diploma in Non-Directive Play Therapy. Previously, she worked at the University of Hull and with Humberside Social Services as a social worker and Acting Neighbourhood Team Manager. She has also worked in probation. Notable amongst her book publications is The Child Protection Handbook, co-edited with A. James.


Book Information
ISBN 9780333922644
Author Margaret Bell
Format Paperback
Page Count 250
Imprint Red Globe Press
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 457g