Full Description
In the same tradition as the best-selling Making and Breaking Children's Lives (PCCS Books, 2005) this is an academically thorough collection of socio-cultural and critical reviews of the place of children and children's services in society. Contributions from well-respected practitioners and academics provide perspectives on constructing childhood, parent-hood, sexuality, ADHD, children and austerity, the family court system, parental blame and responsibility, learning disabilities, and poverty. Contributors include Peter Breggin, Rudi Dallos, Pat Dudgeon, Laura Golding, Dan Goodley and Katherine Runswick-Cole.
Contents
INTRODUCTIONProtecting children,projecting childhood Craig NewnesPART ONE: JUST KIDS?Children and childhood constructed Craig NewnesConstructing innocence and risk as a rationale for intervention by Melissa BurkettThe Stolen Generations: The Forced Removal of First Peoples Children in Australia by Pat Dudgeon, Carmen Cubillo and Abigail Bray Children and austerity by Carl Harris Single motherhood by Laura GoldingConsidering the Relationship between Vulnerability and Child Sexual Exploitation by Adele Gladman PART TWO: JUST SERVICES?Supporting children's wellbeing and resilience in the school setting by Jo RobbinsThe Rights of Parents and Children In Regard to Children Receiving Psychiatric Diagnoses and Drugs by Peter Breggin Learning Disabled Children by Katherine Runswick-Cole and Dan GoodleyChildren and Electroconvulsive Therapy by Craig NewnesFostering by Carolyn McQueen Don't Blame the Parents: Is it possible to develop non-blaming models of parental causation of distress? by Rudi Dallos The Children's Disability Living Allowance Form: Policing dependency with a boundary object by Carl Walker and Orly Klein
