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Author D'Cruz, Heather, author

Title Constructing meanings and identities in child protection practice / Heather D'Cruz
Published Croydon, Vic. : Tertiary Press, 2004
2004

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Description xii, 299 pages ; 25 cm
regular print
Contents 1. Introduction -- 2. Methodology - addressing a complex practice reality -- 3. Protecting children within discourses of the normal child and family -- 4. Policy as discourse -- 5. Sites of practice -- 6. 'Something happened': constructing maltreatment -- 7. Identities of responsibility -- 8. Who is a child? Who is a parent? -- 9. Constructing meanings and identities in child protection practice
Summary Examines a contemporary and contentious social problem, child maltreatment, and the policy and practice in response to it, child protection
Analysis Child abuse - Prevention - Study and teaching
Policy Making - Western Australia
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 262-294
Audience For TAFE students
Subject Social work with children.
Abused children -- Services for -- Textbooks.
Child welfare -- Textbooks.
Child abuse -- Prevention -- Textbooks.
Abused children -- Services for.
Child welfare.
Child abuse -- Prevention.
Genre/Form Textbooks.
ISBN 0864583354