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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

McVeigh, Mary Jo

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CriminologyGeneral SociologyPoverty & Social Work

ISBN10: 1041220367
ISBN13: 9781041220367
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Sep 21 2026
Pages: 194
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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 through a biomedical lens.

This book argues that taken-for-granted notions of the 'child' or 'young person', 'maltreatment', and 'trauma' are embedded within intervention and dictate the way professionals engage with young survivors. Drawing on a critical social work lens to critique these notions and bringing together 40 years of the author's practice and research, this book opens up the area of therapeutic intervention to current critical, socio-political, and cultural thought. By exploring the issue through a human rights lens, particularly a child rights lens, while simultaneously intersecting this exploration with critical race, feminist, and post-colonial theorising, this book provides a socio-political underpinning for examining therapeutic intervention in children's and young people's lives. Weaving together the expertise of both young survivors and the author to offer an understanding of current therapeutic interventions, this book invites practitioners to critically reflect on how they engage with young citizens who have experienced violence, exploitation, abuse, and neglect. Each chapter also includes questions for further reflection, designed to facilitate additional discussion of the issues raised in this book.

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