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Peer Review Status: Refereed
Title: Exploring communication between social workers, children and young people
Author(s): Winter, Karen
Cree, Viv
Hallett, Sophie
Hadfield, Mark
Ruch, Gillian
Morrison, Fiona
Holland, Sally
Contact Email: f.morrison@stir.ac.uk
Keywords: Social workers
communication
children and families
ethnography
visits
Issue Date: 1-Jul-2017
Date Deposited: 15-Jan-2018
Citation: Winter K, Cree V, Hallett S, Hadfield M, Ruch G, Morrison F & Holland S (2017) Exploring communication between social workers, children and young people. British Journal of Social Work, 47 (5), pp. 1427-1444. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcw083
Abstract: A key issue for the social work profession concerns the nature, quality and content of communicative encounters with children and families. This article introduces some findings from a project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) that took place across the UK between 2013 and 2015, which explored how social workers communicate with children in their everyday practice. The Talking and Listening to Children (TLC) project had three phases: the first was ethnographic, involving observations of social workers in their workplace and during visits; the second used videostimulated recall with a small number of children and their social workers; and the third developed online materials to support social workers. This paper discusses findings from the first phase. It highlights a diverse picture regarding the context and content of communicative processes; it is argued that attention to contextual issues is as important as focusing on individual practitioners' behaviours and outlines a model for so doing. © The Author 2016. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The British Association of Social Workers. All rights reserved.
DOI Link: 10.1093/bjsw/bcw083
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