Social Work with children : The Importance of Education and Life Skills Groups
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The contention in this volume is that it is imperative to ensure that children are engaged in education and actively participating in activities beyond the classroom through life skills groups and organisations.
This volume explores:-
Role of Life Skills Groups and Social workers in Schools
Building Resilience
Virtual Schools
Beyond Life Care
Absent Pupils and Education of Children in Care
Learning and Life Skills Groups
Engaging and Supporting Others
The Benefits of Uniformed Life Skills Organisations
This book is intended as a support, a place where practitioners, students, and academics, as well as lay readers, who are interested in improving the long-term outcome for children in need and those looked after can explore ideas.
Dr Toyin Okitikpi was a principle lecturer and course director in social work. Having started in residential care he qualified as a generic social worker. His interests include social work education, the importance of education in the lives of children and young people, refugee and asylum-seeking children and their families social integration, and cohesion, working with children of mixed parentage and interracial/multicultural families and their experiences.