This is an electronic version of an article published in Journal of Family Social Work, 2004, 8(2), pp.53-64. The Journal of Family Social Work is available online at:
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all?content=10.1300/J039v08n02_03., Governments are concerned to promote positive parenting but it is difficult…

This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in the British Journal of Social Work following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version, Beckett, C., 2003. The language of siege: military metaphors in the spoken language of…

This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in British Journal of Social Work following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version, Beckett, C. & McKeigue, B., 2010. Objects of concern: caring for children during care proceedings.…

This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in the British Journal of Social Work following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version, McKeigue, B. & Beckett, C., 2004. Care proceedings under the 1989 Children Act: rhetoric…

The Journal of Mental Health Promotion is now the Journal of Public Mental Health, ISSN 1746-5729., This article relates one aspect of an action research project on work related stress and mental health problems to its wider context. It is…

This is an electronic version of an article published in the Journal of Mental Health, 15(1), pp.103-111. Journal of Mental Health is available online at: http://informahealthcare.com/journal/jmh., Background: Enabling service users to find and keep real jobs is a significant strand…

This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in the British Journal of Social Work following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version, Beckett, C., 2005. The Swedish myth: the corporal punishment ban and child death statistics.…

As Personality Disorder continues to be a subject of intense public and professional debate, this study has explored by means of an in-depth interview the views of fifty people to whom this diagnosis has been attributed, to include: demographic data,…

This paper describes and discusses the evaluation of
an innovative child and adolescent mental health
project located in a large county in eastern England.
The project was one of eight located in the
voluntary sector and supported by the Mental

This paper presents an analysis of interviews with Israeli social workers conducted as part of a study investigating the impact of the 2nd Intifada on the work, clients, views and feelings of Israeli Arab and Jewish social workers. The data…