1st Edition

Systemic Approaches to Training in Child Protection

By Gerrilyn Smith Copyright 1993
    120 Pages
    by Routledge

    120 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book contributes to the scientific and ideological debate on child sexual abuse and illuminates the trainer practitioner in the process by recognizing that human services training is built on the ideology and values of the sponsoring organisation, the participants, and the trainer.

    Editors’ Foreword -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Prologue -- Do as I say, not as I do: disconnected patterns -- Training as a strategic intervention to an organization -- Generating systemic hypotheses from training experiences -- If the shoe fits, wear it: trainers redefined -- Engage brain before disengaging mouth: are you curious? -- Interventions to the learning system -- Recurring themes and continuous developments in training -- Department of Health Postgraduate Training in Child Sexual Abuse

    Biography

    Gerrilyn Smith is Lead Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Family Therapist in the Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services team, Royal Liverpool Children's Hospitals.