TY - JOUR
AU - Desai, Suki
AB -  Book Reviews 653 clear conceptualisation. She then provides a useful table which outlines the legal provision for different categories of abuse. Brammer's piece also exposes one of the book's main weaknesses in that it is heavily biased towards child care. Whilst there is a section on community care law and disability the emphasis is on children which has the effect of unbalancing the book and providing too much of a feeling of `sameness'. The final part presents a series of practitioner perspectives beginning with Welbourne's account of the transition from learning to practice. It is an interesting and challenging piece but again, uses child care to illustrate her point. Henderson's chapter on care and control is a welcome exception in that she writes of her experience as an ASW. She describes fluently her occasional discomfort in the role describing her ambivalence at both the personal and professional levels. Vernon's chapter on the Youth Court is another interesting and well written piece. He provides a good historical perspective and teases out the tensions in youth justice like its ambivalence about `welfare' as part of the value base of the youth justice system. This final part is concluded by another 
TI - Shifting the Paradigm in Community Mental Health, Geoffrey Nelson, John Lord and Joanna Ochocka, University of Toronto Press, 2001, pp. xvi + 295, ISBN 0802083552, £16.00
JF - The British Journal of Social Work
DO - 10.1093/bjsw/31.4.653
DA - 2001-08-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/shifting-the-paradigm-in-community-mental-health-geoffrey-nelson-john-Zj5xia0ahn
SP - 653
EP - 655
VL - 31
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -