Therapeutically Engaging Young Survivors of Violence, Exploitation, Abuse, and Neglect: A Critical Social Work Approach

Therapeutically Engaging Young Survivors of Violence, Exploitation, Abuse, and Neglect: A Critical Social Work Approach highlights that the current trauma model in social work, psychology and counselling with children and young people operates from a biomedical lens. This book argues that taken-for-granted notions of ‘child’ or ‘young person’, ‘maltreatment’, and ‘trauma’ are embedded within intervention and dictate the way professionals engage with young survivors.Using a critical social work lens to critique these notions by bringing together forty years of practice and research by the author, opens up the area of therapeutic intervention to current critical, socio-political, and cultural thought.Exploring the issue as a human right, mainly a child rights lens, while simultaneously intersecting this exploration with critical race, feminist, and post-colonial theorising, provides a socio-political underpinning to examine therapeutic intervention in children's and young people's lives.