Active Social Work with Children with Disabilities

A comprehensive social worker's guide to working with children with disabilities.

Active Social Work with Children with Disabilities provides a comprehensive social worker’s guide to working with children with disabilities, exploring current issues from the perspective of both the social worker and the family. Many people are afraid of working in this field of social work and this book dispels the myths and fears about working with children with disabilities and build the social worker’s confidence in an area that is often left behind within the social work world. 

The book will help you to:

• undertake a social work assessment with a child with a disability
• consider the holistic needs of the child and the family
• explore the impact of grief and loss upon the family
• build emotional intelligence and resilience within families.
• communicate with children with disabilities communication techniques.

The new SEND legislation and issues around Safeguarding of Children with Disabilities and Transition to Adult Social Care for the young person are explored, and activities and scenarios help you to critically reflect and explore theory and practice further

Introduction

Chapter One               Legislative Frameworks supporting Children with Disabilities

Chapter Two               Exploring Processes in Practice

Chapter Three             Managing the Emotional Impact of Disability

Chapter Four               The Child’s Voice -  Exploring their world using good

Communication 

Chapter Five              Autism and the impact on Communication

Chapter Six               Completing your assessment

Chapter Seven            Exploring Behaviour Management Techniques & Strategies

Chapter Eight             Giving Consideration to Values, Ethics, Race and Anti-

Discriminatory Practice

Chapter Nine              Accessing Support and Resources

Chapter Ten                Exploring a Family Perspective

Chapter Eleven            Taking it Further