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Trust and betrayal in the treatment of child abuse
- Author
- MacKinnon, Laurie K.
- Title
- Trust and betrayal in the treatment of child abuse / Laurie K. MacKinnon ; foreword by Virginia Goldner.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- New York : Guilford Press, c1998.
- Description
- xii, 260 p. ; 24 cm.
- URL
- <Contributor biographical information> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/guilford051/97043972.html <Publisher description> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/guilford051/97043972.html <Table of contents> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/guilford041/97043972.html <Sample text> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0653/97043972-s.html
- Spine title
- Trust & betrayal in the treatment of child abuse
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-254) and index.
- Contents
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- Child Abuse in Context
- Why Are Child-at-Risk Cases So Difficult?
- The Scope of "Child Abuse"
- Conflict and Mistrust between Professionals
- Mistrust between Parents and Professionals
- Notions of Pathology and Dysfunction
- Routes to Therapy
- Self-Referrals to Therapy
- Referrals to Therapy from the Department
- Becoming a Client of "the Welfare"
- Routes of Referral to the Department
- The Impact of Notification
- The Process of Investigation
- Court Proceedings
- Working-Class Life and the Family Ideal
- The Family Ideal
- Working-Class Life
- The Control of Children
- The Genealogy of Relationships
- The Genealogical Method
- The Construction of Subjectivity
- Case Example: The Nicolopoulos Family
- The Therapist as Power Broker
- Initial Meetings: Earning the Parents' Trust
- Initial Meetings: Laying the Groundwork
- Establishing and Defining Confidentiality
- Getting the Story
- Case Example: Kurt and Sue
- Beginning with a Positive Frame
- Working with "the Welfare" in Child-at-Risk Cases
- Establishing a Workable Relationship with Child Protection Professionals
- Intervening in the CP Worker-Family Relationship
- Reporting Back to the Department
- Raising the Stakes in Child-at-Risk Cases: Eliciting and Maintaining Parents' Motivation
- An Approach to Eliciting and Maintaining Client Motivation
- Rewriting the Story of Abuse
- Obtaining the Story of the Abuse
- Case Example: The Orczy Family
- Case Example: The Travis Family
- Creating a Relationship Discourse.
- Kinsey subjects
- Family therapy. Child victims. Child parent relationships. Lower class.
- ISBN
- 1572302984 9781572302983