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Working back to the future: strengthening radical social work with children and young people, and their perspectives on resilience, capabilities and overcoming adversity

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dc.contributor.author Larkins, Cath
dc.contributor.author Satchwell, Candice
dc.contributor.author Davidge, Gai ...et.al.
dc.date.accessioned 2022-04-04T02:31:32Z
dc.date.available 2022-04-04T02:31:32Z
dc.date.issued 2021-08
dc.identifier.citation Larkins, C., Satchwell, C., Davidge, G., Carter, B. and Crook, D. (2021) Working back to the future: strengthening radical social work with children and young people, and their perspectives on resilience, capabilities and overcoming adversity, Critical and Radical Social Work, vol 9, no 2, 185–204, DOI: 10.1332/204986020X16031172027478 sm
dc.identifier.issn • Online ISSN 2049-8675
dc.identifier.uri ttps://doi.org/10.1332/204986020X16031172027478
dc.identifier.uri ${sadil.baseUrl}/handle/123456789/3675
dc.description 20 p. ; PDF sm
dc.description.abstract Using data from participatory storytelling research with 65 young people, this article provides a co-created theoretical grounding for radical social work with children and young people. The problems and solutions social work should be seeking are explored in the light of resilience theories and the capability approach. The young people’s perspectives echo but extend existing resilience interventions and definitions of the capability approach, highlighting structural and historical patterns of inequality. They call for a collective response to adverse experiences, which become obvious in one zone of experience but have consequences and roots in other places. Social work could usefully employ expanded understandings of socio-ecological resilience and the capability approach to focus interventions more clearly on the root causes of adversities and shape interventions that highlight capability sustainability and co-created solutions. This would involve professionals working alongside children and young people, as well as their families and allies, to confront enduring patterns of disadvantage. sm
dc.description.sponsorship This work was supported by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council under Grant AHM001539/1. sm
dc.language.iso en sm
dc.publisher Policy Press sm
dc.relation.ispartofseries Critical and Radical Social Work • vol 9 • no 2 • 185–204;
dc.subject children in need sm
dc.subject resilience sm
dc.subject capability approach sm
dc.subject child participation sm
dc.subject social theory sm
dc.title Working back to the future: strengthening radical social work with children and young people, and their perspectives on resilience, capabilities and overcoming adversity sm
dc.type Article sm


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