Author(s): Andrew Turnell and Steve Edwards

Child Abuse

Focusing on how child protection professionals can build partnerships with parents where there is suspected or substantiated child abuse or neglect, this book brings the solution-oriented model to child protection work. Providing practical strategies for building a partnership with parents, it aims to prevent abuse and family dissolution. It expands the investigation of risk to encompass signs of safety that can be built upon to stabilize and strengthen the child's and family's situation.