Working with Vulnerable Primary School Aged Children and their Families

Working with vulnerable families in deprived areas.

Families with school-age children.

Most working parents face a common dilemma--how to care for their children when they are not in school but the parents are at work. In this article Kathleen Christensen, Barbara Schneider, and Donnell Butler describe the predictable and unpredictable scheduling demands school-age children place on working couples and single working parents. The authors assess the potential capacity of schools t...

Gatekeeping Services for Vulnerable Children and Families

Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union (in World Bank terminology, the Europe and Central Asia or ECA region) inherited a child protection system from the socialist period that placed excessive reliance on institutional care as a means of looking after children who were unable to remain with their birth parents in the shorter or longer term. Despite the collapse of the ideology ...

Challenges and Strategies of Mothers with Pre-school and Primary School Children during the Coronavirus Epidemic

COVID-19 pandemic and quarantine have led to many problems for families. In this regard, the purpose of this study was to identify the challenges and strategies of mothers with pre-school and primary school children during the coronavirus epidemic. In order to do this phenomenological study and based on the data saturation principle, 21 mothers having pre-school and primary school children in T...

Family therapy treatment: working with obese children and their families with small steps and realistic goals.

UNLABELLED Childhood obesity treatment can be discussed from several points of view, and there are many forms of treatment. Solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT) and systemic family therapy can be useful in a wide range of contexts and settings such as social care, education and healthcare. They can also be used wherever practitioners sometimes feel that they have very little impact on the pati...