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Social work intervention to protect children: Aspects of research and practice
Author(s) -
Stevenson Olive
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
child abuse review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.569
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1099-0852
pISSN - 0952-9136
DOI - 10.1002/car.2380010105
Subject(s) - nagging , social work , intervention (counseling) , context (archaeology) , politics , work (physics) , political science , sociology , psychology , engineering ethics , public relations , medicine , social psychology , nursing , law , engineering , paleontology , mechanical engineering , biology
This paper seeks to bring together three issues about which I have felt a nagging, persistent sense of unease over the past 10 years or more. They can be formulated thus: (a) Why is there a great divide between the professional debate on child abuse and that about other aspects of child care policy and practice; (b) Why is accepted good practice so often not carried out; (c) Why are the related implications of research so hard to translate into effective practice? These questions become even more pressing in the present political climate and in the context of the Implementation of the Children Act 1989.