Observation in Health and Social Care: Applications for Learning, Research and Practice with Children and Adults

Examining and exploring new approaches to therapeutic observation in health and social care, this multidisciplinary guide discusses and analyses its uses in a range of practical contexts with children, families and adults. Developing good observation skills is paramount to sustaining relationships in the challenging settings that health and social care professionals find themselves in. This guide shows how observation is taught, applied in practice, and how it will be returned to throughout professionals' careers.Drawing on psy

Lucille Allain is Associate Professor and Director of Social Work Programmes at Middlesex University. Helen Hingley-Jones is Associate Professor of Social Work at Middlesex University. Clare Parkinson is Clinical Lecturer and Senior Social Worker at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust.

Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist. This book creates a coherent dialogue between the thinking underpinning psychoanalytic baby and young child observation, and the worlds of: health and social care/work practice; social care/work and health education; and research. -- Helen Cosis Brown, Visiting Professor of Social Work, Institute of Applied Social Research, University of Bedfordshire Comprehensive and accessible: this volume is a welcome addition to the existing literature on psychoanalytic observation a