What skills are needed to work with children and familes?
Learning Objectives
After considering this resource, you should be more aware of the skills you need to master to work effectively with children and families, and how you might begin to acquire these skills.
Different sets of service users have specific communication needs and children and families are no exception - you are unlikely to talk to a seven year old child in the same way you might talk to a 65 year old woman for example. In this chapter from An Introduction to Working with Children: A Guide for Social Workers, Matthew Colton, Robert Sanders and Margaret Williams examine the different skills you will exercise when working with children and families, and how these may be put into practice.