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

Author(s) : Mary Jo McVeigh

Table of Contents

Part 1: Exploring the knowledge landscape
1 Introduction
2 Theoretical scaffolding: “giving them a little bit of trauma”
3 The construction of childhood across time and geography: being babied
4 Exploring the positioning of children and young people in the child protection field: “doing it for attention”
5 An exploration of therapeutic intervention: “don’t trauma bomb us”

Part 2: Exploring the practice landscape
6 An exploration of the ethical framework when connecting to young survivors of violence, exploitation, abuse, and neglect: ‘you can’t fucking scare me, bitch’
7 Leaving a big impact: exploring how the participants felt they were perceived and how they perceived professionals and the helping relationship
8 Exploring how the participants perceived the nature of therapeutic help: “give a shit or quit”
9 Bringing together the findings into a conceptual framework: sorting ourselves out
10 Considerations for practice: “love what you do”

Afterwards: silence is not golden
Index