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This book provides a guide to the challenges and tensions bound up in the role of being a social worker. David Howe explores how practitioners have to contain sometimes quite opposing functions or philosophies in the work that they do, and demonstrates that in order to be effective and practise with skill and wisdom, they have to encompass it all.

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Once More With Feeling -- Introduction -- Reason and Emotion -- Being Acknowledged -- Understanding Feelings and Feeling Understood -- Conclusion -- 2 What is Emotional Intelligence? -- Introduction -- Conceptual Beginnings -- Definitions -- From Monitoring to Management -- The Personal and Interpersonal Benefits of Emotional Intelligence -- Working Under Stress -- Conclusion -- 3 What are Emotions? -- Introduction -- In Body and Mind -- Negative Emotions -- Positive Feelings -- Emotions and Memory -- Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness -- Expressing Emotions -- Emotions and Social Relationships -- Defining Emotions -- Reflexes, Emotion and Cognition -- Conclusion -- 4 Emotional Development -- Introduction -- Temperament -- The Parent-Child Relationship -- Learning to Recognize Emotions in Self and Others -- Emotional Attunement and Emotional Regulation -- Naming and Sharing Emotional States -- Psychological Mindedness -- Emotional Development in Adversity -- The Emergence of the Self and the Social Emotions -- Social Sharing of Emotions -- Culture and Emotions -- Conclusion -- 5 The Emotional Brain -- Introduction -- The Complex Brain -- The Social Brain -- The Evolutionary Origins and Organization of the Brain -- Emotions and the Left and Right Brain -- Complex, Integrated Brains -- The Brain's Chemistry -- Abnormal Brain Functioning and Emotional Dysregulation -- Conclusion -- 6 Emotions and Physical Health -- Introduction -- Mind and Body -- The Immune System -- The Stress Response -- Psychology and Immune Functioning: How Feelings Affect Health and Wellbeing -- Stress and Coping -- Resilience -- Feeling in Control -- Stress, Memory and Emotional Arousal -- Happiness, Health and the New Science of Positive Psychology -- Conclusion -- 7 Emotions and Mental Health -- Introduction -- Emotions Awry.

This text offers a comprehensive account of how social developmental perspectives and attachment theory can illuminate practice in the field of child protection and family support. It moves from an introduction to the key theories to a detailed outline of the main methods and processes

ABSTRACTIn many of their cases, child and family social workers, particularly those involved with abuse and neglect, will find themselves also working with children who have been diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The paper reviews current understandings and debates about the nature and causes of ADHD. Although modern evidence suggests the neurobiological basis of the condition and the effectiveness of medication in treating the behaviour, it is also recognized that the quality of the child's caregiving and social environment plays a significant role in the aetiology, maintenance and treatment of ADHD. Recognizing the part that psychosocial elements play in understanding the condition, child and family social workers can be valued members of multidisciplinary teams treating ADHD in which they offer support to parents, helping them to understand and manage their ADHD‐diagnosed child.

ABSTRACTAlthough caregiver factors are generally considered the more potent in determining children's attachment organization, a number of child factors have also been considered. Among these have been temperament and disabilities. The present paper examines the effect of various types of children's disability on parent–child interactions, including how disabilities affect parental sensitivity and communications. A brief outline of attachment theory and patterns of organization is followed by a review of the research evidence that has looked at children with disabilities and insecure attachments. A complex picture emerges in which it is not a child's disability per se that is associated with insecure attachments but rather an interaction between children with disabilities and the caregiver's state of mind with respect to attachment. Transactions between both child and caregiver vulnerability factors affect sensitivity, communications and security of attachment. Practice implications for prevention, advice and support are considered.