Connecting with Children: Developing Working Relationships (Working Together for Children)

This book is primarily concerned with how adults connect with children and develop supportive relationships. It illustrates how good communication, and positive and participative relationships, can be developed with children across the range of universal and specialist children's services. The book also draws on theory, research, and practice to enable understanding of why good communication and good relationships are crucial for many important contemporary issues involving children. Connecting with Children encourages reflective and critical practice for everyone studying and working in the field. It addresses the needs of the new children's workforce and the move to integrated working, and it uniquely gives voice to children's and practitioner's own accounts.