Children Who Commit Acts of Serious Interpersonal Violence

Messages for Best Practice
Herausgeber: Dent, Renuka Jeyarajah; Hagell, Ann

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores risk management and successful intervention for children in care who have committed, or are at risk of committing, acts of serious violence. The contributors provide an overview of the factors leading to extremely violent behaviour and discuss the complexities of diagnosis and definition from a multidisciplinary perspective.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 158mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9781843103844
• ISBN-10: 1843103842
• Artikelnr.: 22374869

Autorenporträt

Ann Hagell is Programme Director for Adolescent Mental Health at The Nuffield Foundation, a large charitable trust based in London. She is a chartered psychologist specialising in social policy research on high-risk young people, and previously co-founded and co-directed the Policy Research Bureau - a centre for applied research into young people and families. She has been Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Adolescence since 2000. Renuka Jeyarajah-Dent is Executive Director of NCH - The Bridge Child Care Development Service, which provides consultancy, training and forensic services to agencies concerned with safeguarding children. She is a chartered psychologist, an associate fellow of the British Psychological Society, and a member of the course advisory group for University College London's educational psychology course.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures and Tables Acknowledgements Foreword (Florence Bruce
Oak Foundation) Part 1: Backgrounds and characteristics. 1.Introduction and context
Ann Hagell
Nuffield Foundation
and Renuka Jeyarajah-Dent
NCH - The Bridge Childcare Development Service 2. Difficult to place children - key characteristics
obvious challenges
Susan Bailey
University of Central Lancashire and Royal College of Psychiatrists. 3. Risk factors for serious and violent antisocial behaviour in children and youth
Friedrich Lösel
Cambridge University and University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
and Doris Bender
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. 4. Children with sexually abusive behaviour - a special subgroup
Eileen Vizard
NSPCC Young Abusers Project and University College
London. 5. Minors involved in murder and manslaughter: An exploration of the situation in the Netherlands
Paul Nieuwbeerta
Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement
and Peter H. van der Laan
Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement and University of Amsterdam. Part 2: Outcomes and practical considerations. 6. The placement
care and treatment of children and young people who commit serious acts of interpersonal violence or sexual offences
Ann Hagell
Nuffield Foundation
and Patricia Moran
Royal Holloway
University of London. 7. Implications of different residential treatments for young people who commit serious crimes
Gwyneth Boswell
University of East Anglia. 8. `Hard to place' children and young people: A commentary on past
present and future approaches to care and treatment
Kevin J. Epps
Positive Experiences Limited and University of Birmingham. 9. Challenges to meeting the needs of these children effectively: An overview of an international research study in Germany
Greece
England and Wales
Ann Hagell
Nuffield Foundation. 10. Working with violent children in German youth services: Results of a survey
Doris Bender
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
and Friedrich Lösel
Cambridge University and University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. 11. Children who commit serious acts of interpersonal violence: A field study in Greece
Helen Agathonos
Vivi Tsibourka and Angeliki Skoubourdi
Institute of Child Health. 12. Dealing with the children who are hardest to place: Results of a survey of childcare agencies in England and Wales
Ann Hagell
Nuffield Foundation
and Emily Hill
Policy Research Bureau. 13. Conclusions: Messages for good practice
Renuka Jeyarajah-Dent
NCH- The Bridge Childcare Development Service
and Ann Hagell
Nuffield Foundation. Appendices: Brief Commentaries. Appendix 1. The use of structured instruments in the assessment of violence risk
Paul A. Tiffin and Graeme Richardson
Forensic Mental Health Service. Appendix 2. Diagnostic issues in seriously disturbed adolescents
Robert Vermeiren
VU University Medical Center
Amsterdam
University of Leiden and Yale Child Study Center. 3. Disorganised attachments and psychological trauma in the lives of hard-to-place children
Jean Harris-Hendriks
Camden and Islington Mental Health NHS Trust
London and Royal Free Hospital and University College Hospital Medical Schools. 4. Management of serious interpersonal violence in individuals with autistic spectrum disorders
Paul Devonshire
University of Surrey and St George's Hospital Medical School. 5. Meeting the needs of young people who are dangerous within the English/Welsh context: A social care management perspective
David Derbyshire
NCH - The Bridge Childcare Development Service. 6. Service provision in Bulgaria for children who commit extreme acts of interpersonal violence. Daniela Kolarova
Partners Bulgaria Foundation. 7. The Our Family care model in Russia as an effective prevention scheme for children in care who commit extreme acts of interpersonal violence
Maria Ternovskaya
Maria Kapilina and Tatiana Gubina
Our Family Centre
Moscow. The Contributors. Subject Index. Name Index.