Course: Caring for Vulnerable Children

The quality of relationships that children and adults have with other people, particularly those with whom there is an attachment relationship, will depend on the physical and emotional availability, sensitivity, …

Many of the children (and families) we work with have faced difficult circumstances and experienced significant disruptions to their early processes of containment. As a result, their development of thinking, …

A range of different theories and perspectives exist which attempt to explain how humans grow and develop across a person’s lifespan. These differing perspectives can be organised into different groupings …

Urie Bronfenbrenner introduced his ecological systems theory, or ecological framework for human development, in the 1970s. The ecological systems theory Taking very much a sociological approach, Bronfenbrenner described the influences …

Issues of poverty and austerity have led to increasing calls for social work and social care more generally to become engaged with the promotion of social justice. Increased discomfort with …