TY - BOOK AU - Luckock,Barry AU - Lefevre,Michelle TI - Direct Work: Social Work with Young People in Care SN - 9781905664290 AV - HV713.D57 2008 PY - 2007/// CY - London PB - CoramBAAF KW - Social work with children KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Direct work with children - delusion or reality? -- Introduction -- 1 Living through the experience: the social worker as the trusted ally and champion of young people in care -- 2 Knowing, being and doing: core qualities and skills for working with children and young people in care -- 3 Providing a secure base - an attachment perspective -- 4 Making sense of the experience of transition: psychotherapeutic insights for young people and their social workers -- 5 The everyday lives of children in care: using a sociological perspective to inform social work practice -- 6 Consultation and advocacy -- 7 The power of the gaze: observation and its role in direct practice with children in care -- 8 Communicating and engaging with children and young people in care through play and the creative arts -- 9 Working with disabled children who live away from home some or all of the time -- 10 Using interactive media in direct practice -- 11 Opportunity-led work with children -- 12 Ascertaining the wishes and feelings of children in the children's guardian role -- 13 Unaccompanied asylum-seeking and refugee children and their transition into care -- 14 Knowing the child: the importance of developing a relationship -- 15 Remembering never to forget and forgetting never to remember: re-thinking life story work -- 16 Real-time communication in residential care -- 17 Incorporating principles from social pedagogy into direct work with children in care -- 18 We're all human beings, aren't we? Working with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender young people in care -- 19 Group work with adopted children -- 20 Difficulties with reflective thinking in direct work: the role of supervision and consultation -- 21 Developing "containing contexts" for the promotion of effective direct work: the challenge for organisations; Notes about the contributors UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3002770 ER -