Reviews

Raising Parents: Attachment, Parenting and Child Safety: Patricia McKinsey‐Crittenden The Child's Voice in Family Therapy: A Systemic Perspective: Gammer, Carole, WW Norton & Company Inc.     

Book Reviews

Children in Changing Families: Life After Parental Separation. Jan Pryor & Bryan Rogers. Women Without Children: Nurturing Lives. Yvonne Vissing. New Brunswick. For Better or for Worse: Divorce Reconsidered. E. Mavis Hetherington & John Kelly. The Birth of Pleasure. Carol Gilligan. Making Men Into Fathers: Men, Masculinities and the Social Politics of Fatherhood. Barbara Hobson (Ed.). Taking Parenting Public: The Case for a New Social Movement. Sylvia Ann Hewlett, Nancy Rankin, & Cornel West (Eds.). Pit Women: Coal Communities in Northern England in the Early Twentieth Century. Griselda Carr. Championing Child Care. Sally S. Cohen. Caring and Doing for Others. Alice S. Rossi (Ed.).     

Book Reviews

“Poppa” Psychology: The Role of Fathers in Children's Mental Well‐Being. Vicky Phares. Black Men and Divorce. Erma Jean Lawson & Aaron Thompson. Crossing the Line: Interracial Couples in the South. Robert P. McNamara, Maria Tempenis, & Beth Walton. Indicators of Children's Well‐Being. Robert M. Hauser, Brett V. Brown, & William R. Prosser (Eds.). The Scientific Basis of Child Custody Decisions. Robert M. Galatzer‐Levy & Louis Kraus (Eds.). The Third Job: Employed Couples' Management of Household Work Contradictions. Gurjeet K. Gill. Children's Adjustment to Adoption: Developmental and Clinical Issues. David M. Brodzinsky, Daniel W. Smith, & Anne B. Brodzinsky. Till Death Do Us Part: A Multicultural Anthology on Marriage. Sandra Lee Browning & R. Robin Miller (Eds.). Taking Time: Parental Leave Policy and Corporate Culture. Mindy Fried. Battered Women, Children, and Welfare Reform: The Ties that Bind. Ruth A. Brandwein (Ed.). Women, Families, and HIV/AIDS: A Sociological Perspective on the Epidemic in America. Carole A. Campbell. The Changing Family in Comparative Perspective: Asia and the United States. Karen Oppenheim Mason, Noriko O. Tsuya, & Minja Kim Choe (Eds.). Intimacy: Personal Relationships in Modern Societies. Lynn Jamieson. Relationships as Developmental Contexts. W. Andrew Collins & Brett Laursen (Eds.). Attachment Theory and Close Relationships. Jeffry A. Simpson & W. Steven Rholes (Eds.). The Custody Wars: Why Children Are Losing the Legal Battle and What We Can Do About It. Mary Ann Mason. Book Review Editor's note: Copies of the book, The Postdivorce Family The Postdivorce Family: Children, Parenting, and Society. Ross A. Thompson & Paul R. Amato (Eds.). Marriage, Divorce, and Children's Adjustment (2nd ed.). Robert E. Emery. The Postdivorce Family: Children, Parenting, and Society. Ross A. Thompson & Paul R. Amato (Eds.). Undercurrents of Divorce. Shelley Day Sclater & Christine Piper (Eds.). Problem Solving in Families: Research and Practice. Samuel Vuchinich.     

Book Reviews

Women's Work Is Never Done: Comparative Studies in Care‐Giving, Employment, and Social Policy Reform. Sylvia Bashevkin. (Ed.) Learning to Be Old: Gender, Culture, and Aging. Margaret Cruikshank. How Families Still Matter: A Longitudinal Study of Youth in Two Generations. Vern L. Bengtson, Timothy J. Biblarz, & Robert E. L. Roberts. New Family Values: Liberty, Equality, Diversity. Karen Struening. Involved Fathering and Men's Adult Development: Provisional Balances. Rob Palkovitz. For Better and for Worse: Welfare Reform and the Well‐Being of Children and Families. Greg J. Duncan & P. Lindsay Chase‐Lansdale. (Eds.) The Power of Good Deeds: Privileged Women and the Social Reproduction of the Upper Class. Diana Kendall. Child Care and Inequality: Rethinking Carework for Children and Youth. Francesca M. Cancian, Demie Kurz, Andrew S. London, Rebecca Reviere, & Mary C. Tuominen.     

Reviews

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Health Behavior Change: A Guide for Practitioners Stephen Rollnick, Pip Mason And Chris Butler Churchill Livingstone (Available From Harcourt Australia)Xii + 225, Soft Cover, $45.95

Contemporary Perspectives on Social Work and the Human Services: Challenges and Change IAN O'Connor, Paul Smyth And Jeni Warburton Pearson Education Australia, Soft CoverRRP $39.95

A Matter Of Attitude: Older People Confronting The Fear Of Frailty Video Review Office Of Aging, Department Of Families Youth And Community Care, Queensland, 1999, 30 Minutes     

Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Independent comment on Audio‐visual and Print Materials; Whispers from the East Frances E. Steinberg and Richard G. Whiteside Risky Practices: A Counsellor's Guide to Risk Management in Private Practice; Nigel McBride & Michael Tunnecliffe Therapeutic and Training Tools from St. Luke's Parenting between Cultures: The Primary Years: A Program for Parents from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Communities; Catherine Blunt. Marymead Child and Family Centre, Kingston ACT, 2000 Bringing Up Boys, A Parenting Manual for Sole Mothers Raising Sons; Jo Howard Mothers and Sons; Bringing up Boys as a Sole Parent; Jo Howard Treating Huckleberry Finn; David Nylund. Jossey‐Bass Family Secrets: Gay Sons — A Mother's Story; Jean M. Baker Lesbian Step‐Families: An Ethnography of Love; Janet M. Wright ‘Rent Two Films and Let's Talk in the Morning’. Using Popular Movies in Psychotherapy; John & Jan G. Hesley     

Reviews

Barbara S. Held, Back To Reality: A Critique Of Postmodern Theory In Psychotherapy Michael R. Butz, Linda L. Chamberlain And William G. Mccown, Strange Attractors; Chaos, Complexity, And The Art Of Family Therapy Michael J. Mahoney, Human Change Processes: The Scientific Foundations Of Psychotherapy James Hillman And Michael Ventura, We've Had A Hundred Years Of Psychotherapy—And The World's Getting Worse Renos K. Papadopoulos And John Byng-Hall (Eds), Multiple Voices; Narrative In Systemic Family Psychotherapy Haim Omer, Critical Interventions In Psychotherapy: From Impasse To Turning Point Donald R. Bardill, The Relational Systems Model For Family Therapy: Living In The Four Realities     

Independent comment on Audio‐visual and Print Materials

Book reviewed in this article: A Different Story: The Rise of Narrative in Psychotherapy C. C. Beels Angels with Attitude; 48 full colour cards. $49.50 (incl. GST). Shadows: Seeing the Darkness, Looking for Light The Therapist's Notebook for Families. Solution‐Oriented Exercises for Working with Parents, Children and Adolescents; Bob Bertolino and Gary Schultheis     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: The Revolution of the Saints: A Study in the Origins of Radical Politics by Michael Walzer Age of Indtistrial Violence 1910–15: The Activities and Findings of The United States Commission on Industrial Relations by Graham Adams, Jr. The Psychology of Union-Management Relations by Ross Stagner and Hjolmar Rosen Culture, Health and Disease by Margaret Read Professional Men: The Rise of the Professional Classes in Nineteenth Century England by W. J. Reader Comparative Functionalism by Walter Goldschmidt Power and Privilege: A Theory of Social Stratification by Gerhard E. Lenski Psychological Statistics: An Introduction by F. A. Gurts New Dubliners: Urbanization and the Irish Family by A. J. Hiunphreys Slums and Community Development: Experiments in Self Help by M. Bainard Dilemmas of Urban America by R. C. Weaver Urban Renewal and American Cities by Scott Greer Plenty and Want: a social history of diet in England from 1815 to the present day by John Bumett The Captive Wife by Hannah Gavron Parents, Children and Adoption: A Handbook for Adoption Workers by Jane Rowe Identification and Child Rearing by Robert R. Sears, Lucy Rau and Richard Alpert Children in Need by Anthony Denney Absent: School refusal as an expression of disturbed family relationships by Max B. Qyne Studies of Troublesome Children by D. H. Stott Theories in Social Psychology by Morton Deutsch & Robert M. Krauss The Compassionate Society by K. Jones Work, Age and Leisure by F. le Gros Qark The Social Needs of the Over-80's by Fraser Brockington and Suzanne M. Lempert Promoting Mental Health of Older People Through Group Methods: A Pactical Guide by Wilma H. Klein, Eda J. Le Shan, Sylvan S. Funnan     

Risk,Recovery and Resilience

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From 1999 to 2004, the Child and Youth Care Agency for Development (CYAD), a South African Non-Government Agency (NGO), has been working in partnership with the University of Victoria's International Institute for Child Rights and Development (IICRD) and Aboriginal Liaison Office (ABLO) to identify and reinforce community and cultural assets in supporting child and family resilience. The project, entitled Circles of Care: Community and Support for Children Affected by HIV/AIDS, has developed and piloted a model for community capacity building that supports traditional African community values, beliefs and governance structures (understood as Setso) in reinforcing child resilience through child rights based advocacy that partners children and traditional leaders (identified as Morena) and healers (called Dingaka).     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Growing Up American: How Vietnamese Children Adapt to Life in the United States, by Min Zhou and Carl L. The California Cauldron: Immigration and the Fortunes of Local Communities, by William A.V. Clark. Making Democracy Work Better: Mediating Structures, Social Capital, and the Democratic Prospect, by Richard A. Couto with Catherine S. Guthrie. The Road to Poverty: The Making of Wealth and Hardship in Appalachia, by Dwight B. Billings and Kathleen M. Blee. Technology Development in Rural Industries: A Study of China's Collectives, by Hannah Piek.     

Book Reviews

Books and audio-visual materials reviewed: Harris, Mark (Video producer) FAST (Family Sensitive Training) Video Series — Casserole Negative; Experts at Balancing; No Flowers or Chocolates; Hanging in There White, Cheryl and Denborough, David, Introducing narrative therapy: A collection of practice-based writings White, Michael, Narratives of therapists’ lives Jackson, Sue, Wallace, Gael and Hawkes, Ponch, Women of substance Darlington, Yvonne, Moving on: Women's experiences of childhood sexual abuse and beyond Melbourne, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, Bringing them home: A guide to the findings and recommendations of The National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families McKissock, Dianne, The grief of our children Asher, Alison, Soaring into the storm: A book about those who triumph over adversity DiNicola, Vincenzo, A stranger in the family: Culture, families & therapy Duncan, Barry, Hubble, Mark and Miller, Scott, Psychotherapy with ‘impossible’ cases: The efficient treatment of therapy veterans Maddock, James and Larson, Noel, Incestuous families: An ecological approach to understanding and treatment     

A Public Health Approach to Safeguarding in the 21st Century

Recent government policy has focused on the provision of a safe environment for all children. Parenting support is increasingly being recognised as a core method of safeguarding children, and this is of particular importance, given the widespread prevalence of maltreatment and poor parenting practices, the overwhelming number of child protection referrals and the inherent flaws in risk assessment. Until recently, there was no formulation of an overall model of practice based on these changes. In this paper, we present compelling reasons for believing that a public health approach to safeguarding is the only way of ensuring that all children are protected within a population, including children at high risk. The rationale for the delivery of such a model is presented alongside the application of one such evidence‐based population‐level strategy, which has been demonstrated to reduce population‐level indicators of maltreatment. Novel approaches to the delivery of parenting interventions including media‐based strategies are discussed in terms of their potential for reaching families who may be missed by traditional services. The economic aspects of a public health model are discussed, and their relevance for middle‐ and low‐income countries. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Volume 20 , Issue 4 July/August 2011

Pages 238-255     

Books Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Promise Unfulfilled: Unions, Immigration, and the Farm Workers. By Philip L. Martin. How the Other Half works: Immigration and the Social Organization of Labor. By Roger Waldinger and Michael Lichter. Challenging Ethnic Citizenship: German and Israeli Perspectives on Citizenship. Ed. D. Levy and Y. Weiss. The Lost Apple: Operation Pedro Pan, Cuban Children in the US. and the Promise of a Better Future. By Maria de los Angeles Torres. The Use and Abuse of Political Asylum in Britain and Germany. By Liza Schuster. From White Australia to Woomera: The Story of Australian Immigration. By James Jupp. At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration During the Exclusion Era, 1882–1943. By Erika Lee. The Economics of Migration, Vols. I‐IV Edited by Klaus Zimmermann and Thomas Bauer. Migration in European History. By Klaus Bade. Defining British Citizenship. Empire, Commonwealth and Modern Britain. By Rieko Karatani.     

Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Core Principles of Assessment and Therapeutic Communication With Children, Parents and Families: Towards the Promotion of Child and Family Wellbeing: Ruth Schmidt Neven Readings in Family Therapy: From Theory to Practice: Editors: Rasheed, J.M. Rasheed M.N., Marley, J.A. Multisystemic Therapy for Antisocial Behavior in Children and Adolescents, Second Edition: Scott W. Henggeler, Sonja K. Schoenwald, Charles M. Borduin, Melisa D. Rowland, Phillippe B. Cunningham     

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Marta Lohyn Vietnamese Parents and Teenagers Seeking Harmony Peter ChurvenShe Won't Be Right, Mate! Jim CrawleyThe Therapeutic Relationship In Systemic Therapy Maria ScicchitanoEating Disorders: A Survival Guide For Family And Friends Nora HuppertConscious Marriage; A New Model For Making Marriages Work. Sherry WrightCouples Therapy: Feminist Perspectives. Carol BolandViolence In Gay And Lesbian Domestic Relationships. Penny RoughanSexual Coercion In Dating Relation-Ships.     

The UNCRC and Social Workers' Relationships with Young Children

In the UK, The Munro Review of Child Protection (2010, 2011a, 2011b) has recently highlighted that among the failings in safeguarding children known to social services is the lack of meaningful relationships between social workers and children. In her final report, Munro (2011b) has made recommendations for a more child‐centred system anchored on two themes – the child's journey and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). This article illustrates by way of practical examples how the UNCRC, together with the detailed advice and guidance contained in the UNCRC general comments numbers 5, 7 and 12, provides the best framework for developing effective social work relationships with, and safeguarding, young children. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Volume 20 , Issue 6 November/December 2011

Pages 395-406     

Book Reviews

Transitions to Adulthood in a Changing Economy: No Work, No Family, No Future? Alan Booth, Ann C. Crouter, & Michael J. Shanahan (Eds.). All Our Families: New Policies for a New Century. Mary Ann Mason, Arlene Skolnick, & Stephen D. Sugarman (Eds.). The Family On the Threshold of the 21st Century: Trends and Implications. Solly Dreman (Ed.). Stepfamilies: Love, Marriage, and Parenting in the First Decade. James H. Bray & John Kelly. Coping with Divorce, Single Parenting, and Remarriage: A Risk and Resiliency Perspective. E. Mavis Hetherington (Ed.). Resiliency in Native American and Immigrant Families. Hamilton I. McCubbin, Elizabeth A. Thompson, Anne I. Thompson, & Julie E. Fromer (Eds.). Marriage in Men's Lives. Steven L. Nock.     

Book Reviews

The Black Family: Essays and Studies (6th edition). Robert Staples (Ed). Premarital Prediction of Marital Quality or Breakup: Research, Theory, and Practice. Thomas B. Holman. Growing Up Protestant: Parents, Children, and Mainline Churches. Margaret Lamberts Bendroth. Family and Community in Ireland. Conrad M. Arensberg & Solon T. Kimball (with a new introduction by Anne Byrne, Ricca Edmondson, & Tony Varley). America's Childcare Problem: The Way Out. Suzanne W. Helburn & Barbara R. Bergmann. Marriage: Just a Piece of Paper? Katherine Anderson, Don Browning, & Brian Boyer (Eds.). Women, Work, and Family: Balancing and Weaving. Angela Hattery. Starting at Home: Caring and Social Policy. Nel Noddings. Putting Work in Its Place: A Quiet Revolution. Peter Meiksins & Peter Whalley.     

Register of research in social work

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Child Support A Practitioner'S Guide Jan Bowen (1994), Law Book Co., North Ryde, 293 pp. $ 45.00 (paper)

The Independent Social Security Handbook, Welfare Rights Centre (1994), Pluto Press, Leichhardt, 575 pp. $ 29.95 (paper)

Cultures Of Crime And Violence: The Australian Experience Bessant, J. Carrington, K. and Cook, S. (eds.), La Trobe University Press, in association with the Victorian Law Foundation, Melbourne. 221 pp. $ 24.95 (paper) Australia.

Leaving The Fold: A Guide For Former Fundamentalists And Others Leaving Their Religion M. Winell (1993) New Harbinger Publications, Inc. Oakland, CA. 297pp. $ 22.95 (paper) (Available direct from the distributor Boobook Publications, PO Box 163, Tea Gardens NSW 2324, phone (049) 970 811 or through all good bookshops.) Reriatha Reed Social Work Student La Trobe University Albury/Wodonga Campus