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Effective participatory practice : family group conferencing in child protection Connolly, Marie; McKenzie, Margaret

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: New York Aldine de Gruyter 1999Description: xvi, 140 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780202361086 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 361.32 EFF
Contents:
Family participation in child protection The New Zealand experience Indigenous influences in child protection International developments Emerging complexities of family decision-making practice Visionary professional practice Harnessing streng
Summary: Increasingly child protection workers are sharing power with families. The Family Group Conference is the New Zealand practice innovation that brings together the family and the professional in a shared decision-making forum. This book, by two New Zealand authors, describes the development of this process. It explores practice developments that have influenced the New Zealand model. It then considers in detail the New Zealand experience of family group conferencing, and describes a model of family decision-making: Effective Participatory Practice (EPP) which critically considers the FGC process and the linking of models of empowerment, family participation and partnerships in child protection.
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Book Book Vine library TRO 361.32 EFF Available A00744026B

Level 3. NZ focus.

Family participation in child protection The New Zealand experience Indigenous influences in child protection International developments Emerging complexities of family decision-making practice Visionary professional practice Harnessing streng

Increasingly child protection workers are sharing power with families. The Family Group Conference is the New Zealand practice innovation that brings together the family and the professional in a shared decision-making forum. This book, by two New Zealand authors, describes the development of this process. It explores practice developments that have influenced the New Zealand model. It then considers in detail the New Zealand experience of family group conferencing, and describes a model of family decision-making: Effective Participatory Practice (EPP) which critically considers the FGC process and the linking of models of empowerment, family participation and partnerships in child protection.

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