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The Resolutions approach: Keeping Children Safe in families where Child Abuse is denied

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Child and Family Solutions is a Child Protection Consultancy based in Bristol, UK. We provide expert assessment services to statutory authorities and the Court, also to individuals, using an approach that builds upon many years' experience in Child Protection work and is informed by a Systemic Family Psychotherapy perspective. We specialise in the Resolutions approach to risk reduction in child protection cases where abuse is denied.

External Links

U.S. Journal of Systemic Therapies - click here.

Association of Family Therapy and Systemic Practice in the UK - click here.

UKCP - UK Council for Psychotherapy - click here.

Selective Bibliography
Asen,E, (2003) Promoting change or collusion? Context, no. 66, April, 8-9.
Ban, P. (1992) Client Participation - Beyond the Rhetoric. Children Australia, 17(4), 16-0.
Berg, I.K. (1999) Solution-focused brief therapy In Lawson, D & Prevatt, F (eds.) Casebook in Family Therapy. Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole
Berg, I. K. (1999) Foreword to Signs of Safety. A Solution and Safety Oriented Approach to Child Protection Casework Turnell, A. & Edwards, S., W.W. Norton, London.
Berg, I.K. (1991) Family Preservation. A Brief Therapy Work Richard Gollner, B. T. Press.
Cooklin, A., (2003) 'Systemics' and the judicial system: a creative pairing or a threat to the integrity of both? Context, no. 66, April, 3-5.
Dartington Social Research Unit. (1995) Child Protection Messages From Research HMSO, London.
Deacon L. & Gocke B. (1999) Understanding Perpetrators, Protecting Children Whiting & Birch Ltd., London.
Essex, S., Gumbleton, J. & Luger, C. (1996) Resolutions: working with families where responsibilities for abuse is denied Child Abuse Review, 5, p191-202.
Essex, S., Gumbleton, J., Luger, C & Lusk A. (1997) A Suitable Case for Treatment? Community Care, 20-26, Issue 1159.
Essex, S., Gumbleton, J. (1999) 'Similar but Different' Conversations: Working with Denial in Cases of Severe Child Abuse A.N.Z.J. Fam. Ther. Vol 20, No. 3, pp 139-148
Farmer, E. (1996) Family Reunification With High Risk Children: Lessons From Research Children's and Youth Services Review, Vol. 18 Nos. 4/5 pp. 403-424, Elsevier Science Ltd , USA.
Imber-Black, E. (1988) Families and Larger Systems: A Family Therapist's Guide Through the Labyrinth Guilford, New York.
Jones, E. (1993) Family Systems Therapy: Developments in the Milan-Systemic Therapies Wiley, Chichester, 1993. Jones, J. (1993) Child Abuse: Developing a Framework For Understanding Power Relationships in Practice in Ferguson, H. et al, Surviving Childhood Adversity; Issues for Policy and Practice. Social Studies Press.
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MacKinnon, & James, K. (1992) Raising the Stakes in Child at Risk Cases: Eliciting and Maintaining Parents' Motivation Australia and New Zealand Journal Family Therapy.
MacKinnon. & James, K. (1992) Working With 'The Welfare' in Child at Risk Cases Australia and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, 13 (1), 1-15
McCallum, S. (1992) Participative Case Planning: A model For Empowering Case Planning in Statutory Child Welfare Children Australia 17 (1).
Pugh G. & De Ath E. (1985) The Needs of Parents Macmillan, London.
Robinson, G. & Whitney, L. (1999) Working Systemically Following Abuse: Exploring Safe Uncertainty Child Abuse Review Vol. 8264-274.
Ryburn, M., & Atherton, C. (1996) Family Group Conferences: Partnership Practice Adoption and Fostering, 20(1), 16-23.
Saleeby, D., (Eds.) (1992) The Strengths Perspective in Social Work Practice Longman, York.
Sells, S., Smith, T. and Moon, S., (1996) An Ethnographic Study of Client and Therapist Perception of Therapy in a University-Based Training Clinic Journal of Marital and Family Therapy,22, 321-342.
Smith, G., (2003) Reflections from the expert position Context, no. 66, April, 18-21. Thorburn, J., Lewis, A. and Shemmings, D. (1995) Paternalism or Partnership? Family Involvement in Child Protection Process HMSO, London.
Trowell, J., (2003) As a child psychiatrist, how do I use my knowledge and understanding? Context, no. 66, April, 25-27.
Turnell, A. & Edwards. (1999) Signs of Safety - A Solution and Safety Oriented Approach to Child Protection Casework Norton, London.
Turnell, A. & Edwards S. (1997) Aspiring to Partnership: The Signs and Safety Approach to Child Protection Child Abuse Review, 6,179-190.
Weakland, J., & Jordon, L. (1990) Working Briefly with Reluctant Clients: Child Protections Services as an Example Family Therapy Case Studies 5 (2):51-68 Family Therapy Case Studies, 5(2), 51-68.
White, J., Essex, S., & O'Reilly, P. (1993) Family Therapy, Systemic Thinking and Child Protection in Carpenter, J., and Treacher, A (Eds), Using Family Therapy in The 90's, Blackwell, Oxford.

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Books, Papers & Articles

Margaret Hiles, Susie Essex, Dr. Amanda Fox & Colin Luger
Words and Pictures

The Words and Pictures Storyboard:
Making Sense for
Children and Families

Paper published June 2008 in
Context, the Magazine of the
Association of Family Therapy

Margaret Hiles & Colin Luger
Working with Denial

The Resolutions approach:
working with denial in
child protection cases

Paper published 2006 in
Journal of Systemic Therapies

Andrew Turnell & Susie Essex
Turnell Essex

Working with Denied Child Abuse:
the resolutions approach

Margaret Hiles
Margaret Hiles

Research paper (2002):

How do parents explain the contribution of the Resolutions programme to their task in the parenting and protection of their children?