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Young people negotiating intra-and extra familial harm and safety: social and holistic approaches

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Abstract

This chapter provides a holistic and structurally informed framework for understanding the intersections between intra-familial and extra-familial harm in adolescence. It proposes this contextual, social and structural understanding of child harm as a way to interpret and respond to young peoples’ experiences of multiple forms of harms in their families and beyond. Building upon poverty aware, contextual and 'social models' of social work, it considers the need for holistic service responses that acknowledge and alleviate the structural pressures on families and young people. It challenges individualised social work approaches that ask individuals to change as opposed to social work approaches that embrace the impact of social and structural inequalities. Rather than understanding this focus on ‘context’ as a new voice in the room, the chapter draws on Black feminist scholarship that outlines how context might be used in social work.

Publication Information

Output type

Research Output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding Chapter Peer-review

Original language

English

Pages from-to (Number of pages)

Pages 83-111

Publication milestones

  • Published - 21/03/2022

Publication status

Published - 21/03/2022

Place of publication

London

Publisher

Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Publication series

  • Publication series name: Knowledge in Practice

ISBN (Print)

9781787753594

External Publication IDs

  • handle.net: 10547/625329

Host publication title

Safeguarding Young People

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