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Children’s Rights in Professional Practices with Children and Youth
In this insightful book, Tara M. Collins uses critical analysis and practical examples to illustrate the essential connection between children’s rights and professional practices. Collins identifies key conceptual considerations to inform and guide a pattern of professional work that respects children, youth and their families.
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In this insightful book, Tara M. Collins uses critical analysis and practical examples to illustrate the essential connection between children’s rights and professional practices. Collins identifies key conceptual considerations to inform and guide a pattern of professional work that respects children, youth and their families.
Children’s Rights in Professional Practices with Children and Youth emphasises the importance of understanding, reflecting upon, respecting and implementing children’s rights in the context of relational practices involving young people. Adopting an international perspective, it addresses the predominance of legalism in children’s rights which hinders understanding and respect by professionals. It explores the ways in which a relational children’s rights-based praxis can inform professional practices.
Multidisciplinary in scope, this book is crucial reading for academics, researchers and students of law and other professional disciplines with an interest in human rights. Varied professionals and policymakers at local, regional, national and international levels will also benefit from this fundamental resource due to its practical application.
Children’s Rights in Professional Practices with Children and Youth emphasises the importance of understanding, reflecting upon, respecting and implementing children’s rights in the context of relational practices involving young people. Adopting an international perspective, it addresses the predominance of legalism in children’s rights which hinders understanding and respect by professionals. It explores the ways in which a relational children’s rights-based praxis can inform professional practices.
Multidisciplinary in scope, this book is crucial reading for academics, researchers and students of law and other professional disciplines with an interest in human rights. Varied professionals and policymakers at local, regional, national and international levels will also benefit from this fundamental resource due to its practical application.
Critical Acclaim
‘This is a must read for both the novice and expert practitioner of child rights. It is an important resource for educators in all professional domains. I will particularly use it to orient medical students and residents to child rights-based approaches to the health and well-being of children.’
– Jeffrey Goldhagen, University of Florida, USA
‘In this era of growing authoritarianism and push back against children’s rights, Collins offers a powerful analysis of the original values and intent of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and builds on 35 years of subsequent experience to argue the imperative for building a culture of respect for children’s rights through professional practice. It could not be more timely.’
– Gerison Lansdown, International Child Rights Consultant, UK
‘In this book, Tara Collins makes a breakthrough in the narrative on children’s rights by shifting the focus from legalistic approaches to embedding it as a footprint in a rights-based and child-centered humanist praxis. In emphasizing the importance of a relational and intergenerational dialogue in international children’s rights, she provides both conceptual and practical considerations to inform and guide professional practitioners in their engagement with children and adolescents in the spirit of Article 5 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Highly recommended as a guide for childcare professionals, social workers, parents, teachers and child rights advocates.’
– Victor P. Karunan, former Chief, Adolescent Development and Participation, UNICEF Headquarters, New York and Member, Inter-Generational Advisory Committee, International and Canadian Child Rights Partnership
‘In her masterful work, filling a major gap in children’s rights literature, Collins argues that it is the business of all professionals, across disciplines, to use a child rights framework. The volume is accessibly written, illustrated with examples from across the globe. A must-read, this is a clarion call for greater action for and with children everywhere.’
– Susan L. Bissell, Harvard School of Public Health, USA
‘Based on a relational perspective of children''s rights, this book offers a novel, profound and contextualized vision of the foundations of transformative professional practice. For all of us who work directly or indirectly with children and young people, this is essential and enriching.’
– Ana Vergara del Solar, Universidad de Santiago, Chile
– Jeffrey Goldhagen, University of Florida, USA
‘In this era of growing authoritarianism and push back against children’s rights, Collins offers a powerful analysis of the original values and intent of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and builds on 35 years of subsequent experience to argue the imperative for building a culture of respect for children’s rights through professional practice. It could not be more timely.’
– Gerison Lansdown, International Child Rights Consultant, UK
‘In this book, Tara Collins makes a breakthrough in the narrative on children’s rights by shifting the focus from legalistic approaches to embedding it as a footprint in a rights-based and child-centered humanist praxis. In emphasizing the importance of a relational and intergenerational dialogue in international children’s rights, she provides both conceptual and practical considerations to inform and guide professional practitioners in their engagement with children and adolescents in the spirit of Article 5 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Highly recommended as a guide for childcare professionals, social workers, parents, teachers and child rights advocates.’
– Victor P. Karunan, former Chief, Adolescent Development and Participation, UNICEF Headquarters, New York and Member, Inter-Generational Advisory Committee, International and Canadian Child Rights Partnership
‘In her masterful work, filling a major gap in children’s rights literature, Collins argues that it is the business of all professionals, across disciplines, to use a child rights framework. The volume is accessibly written, illustrated with examples from across the globe. A must-read, this is a clarion call for greater action for and with children everywhere.’
– Susan L. Bissell, Harvard School of Public Health, USA
‘Based on a relational perspective of children''s rights, this book offers a novel, profound and contextualized vision of the foundations of transformative professional practice. For all of us who work directly or indirectly with children and young people, this is essential and enriching.’
– Ana Vergara del Solar, Universidad de Santiago, Chile
Contents
Contents
PART I INTRODUCING CHILDREN’S RIGHTS INTO
PROFESSIONAL PRACTICES
1 Introduction: Why are children’s rights important to
professional practices with children and youth? 2
2 Understanding children’s rights in the professional context 22
3 Respecting children’s right to non-discrimination and
intersectionality 45
4 Advancing children’s rights to participation 67
PART II RELATIONAL CHILDREN’S RIGHTS-BASED
PRAXIS OF PROFESSIONAL PRACTICES
5 A relational children’s rights-based praxis of professional
practices 91
6 Professional identity and children’s rights: Assumptions,
biases, and roles 117
7 Implementing a relational child rights praxis in
professional practice at community, national, regional,
and global levels 144
8 Conclusion: The significance of children’s rights in
professional practices 162
References 176
Index 215
PART I INTRODUCING CHILDREN’S RIGHTS INTO
PROFESSIONAL PRACTICES
1 Introduction: Why are children’s rights important to
professional practices with children and youth? 2
2 Understanding children’s rights in the professional context 22
3 Respecting children’s right to non-discrimination and
intersectionality 45
4 Advancing children’s rights to participation 67
PART II RELATIONAL CHILDREN’S RIGHTS-BASED
PRAXIS OF PROFESSIONAL PRACTICES
5 A relational children’s rights-based praxis of professional
practices 91
6 Professional identity and children’s rights: Assumptions,
biases, and roles 117
7 Implementing a relational child rights praxis in
professional practice at community, national, regional,
and global levels 144
8 Conclusion: The significance of children’s rights in
professional practices 162
References 176
Index 215
