Acknowledgements
Introduction
Section 1 Setting the Scene
Chapter 1 Child Protection Practice
Chapter 2. Strengths-Based Practice
Chapter 3. Strengths-Based Child Protection Practice
Chapter 4. Hearing from the Frontlines
Section 1 Summary
Section 2 Choosing Not to Use Strengths-Based Practice
Chapter 5. The Question of Applicability
Chapter 6. Relating Therapeutically
Chapter 7. Supporting Client Self-Determination
Chapter 8. Connecting to Internal and External Resources
Chapter 9. Pursuing a Balanced Understanding
Section 2 Summary: Choosing Not to Use Strengths-Based Practice
Section 3 Firm, Fair and Friendly Practice
Chapter 10. Inviting Maximum Collaboration and Using Strengths
Chapter 11. Using Authority Purposefully
Chapter 12. Being Transparent
Chapter 13. Attending to the Interaction
Chapter 14. Judging Impartially
Chapter 15. Seeing Clients as Human
Section 3 Summary
Section 4 Becoming a Strengths-Based Child Protection Practitioner
Chapter 16. Identifying as a Strengths-Based Child Protection Practitioner
Chapter 17. Educating the Strengths-Based Child Protection Practitioner
Chapter 18. Supporting the Strengths-Based Child Protection Practitioner
Section 4 Summary: Looking Back, Out and Forward