Understanding and working with emotional abuse and neglect

Target group
Staff with a particular responsibility for safeguarding children

Aim
This one day course aims to give participants an opportunity to consider some of the dilemmas involved in working with families where emotional abuse and neglect is an issue. Lessons from research and Serious Case Reviews will be used to enable participants to explore assessment processes as well as appropriate ways of intervening.

Outcomes
By the end of the course delegates will be able to:

• recognise situations where neglect and emotional abuse are impacting on a child's development;
• describe research and enquiry findings that assist in working with emotional abuse and neglect
• use current frameworks to conduct assessments which are informed by family history, and the current context within which the child is living in order to reach an understanding of the needs of the child; and
• work together with the multi-agency network to develop plans which promote the well being of the child

Common Core: 1,2,3
National Occupational Standards for Social Work

• Key Role 1. Unit 1, 2 and 3.
• Key Role 2 Unit 5.,6, 7,and 9
• Key Role 3 Unit 11
• Key Role 4 Unit 12 and 13
• Key Role 5: Unit 14, 16 and 17
• Key Role 6: Unit 18 ,19. and 20

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