Social Work with Children in the Youth Justice System - Messages from Practice

This article is about policy and practice within the youth justice system in England and Wales. The article argues that actively engaging and using emotions, both in terms of the practitioner and service user, enables a deeper social work approach to take place and enables the forming of relationships. Such relationships can then be used as the tool themselves to bring about positive changes for children and families who are receiving intervention from youth justice social workers. Social workers working within the youth justice system know through their experience what is most likely to be effective in meeting the aims of the system – that is prevention of offending. To achieve this means real questions need to be asked about the effectiveness of the technical-rational risk focused approach of the current youth justice system in favour of a system which adopts the principles of Munro (2011) and empowers social workers to actively use critically reflective and reflexive practice and supports the use of self to build powerful social work relationships with the vulnerable children they work with

Altered excitatory-inhibitory balance within somatosensory cortex is associated with enhanced plasticity and pain sensitivity in a mouse model of multiple sclerosis

S1 IHC in pre-symptomatic and clinical-onset EAE: PV+ cell counts, PNN counts, and Iba-1+ microglia counts. A) Representative fluorescence photomicrographs of PV+ staining (low-mag) in S1 from control (CFA) and EAE animals at the pre-symptomatic stage (7–9 dpi PRE) or clinical onset (ONS). B) Group mean (±S.E.) total PV+ cell counts from S1HL of CFA (n = 8), PRE (n = 4), and ONS (n = 4) EAE animals. No significant differences were observed between groups (one-way ANOVA N.S.). C) Representative fluorescence photomicrographs of WFA+ staining (PNNs) in S1 from control (CFA) and EAE animals at the pre-symptomatic stage (7–9 dpi PRE) or clinical onset (ONS). D) Group mean (±S.E.) total PNN counts from S1HL of CFA (n = 11), PRE (n = 4), and ONS (n = 8) EAE animals. EAE animals exhibited significantly reduced PNN-counts vs. CFA-controls at clinical onset (one-way ANOVA, p = 0.007, post hoc comparisons vs. CFA-controls by Dunnett’s method). E) Representative fluorescence photomicrographs of Iba-1+ staining (PNNs) in S1 from control (CFA) and EAE animals at the pre-symptomatic stage (7–9 dpi PRE) or clinical onset (ONS). F) Group mean (±S.E.) total Iba-1+ counts from S1HL of CFA (n = 13), PRE (n = 4), and ONS (n = 8) EAE animals. EAE animals exhibited significantly increased numbers of Iba-1+ cells (microglial activation) in S1HL vs. CFA-controls at all time points (one-way ANOVA, p = 0.012, post hoc comparisons vs. CFA-controls by Dunnett’s method). (PDF 6418 kb

Abstracts from the NIHR INVOLVE Conference 2017

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Social work and drug use teaching:a personal view from Lancaster University

This article offers a personal view about teaching the module ‘Social Work and Drug Use’ at a university in the North West of England, UK. It describes the establishment of the module and the development of the module content over the years. It discusses the nature of teaching the subject within a research focused establishment and the problems this presents. This is all contextualized within the campaign to have social work and drug use as a compulsory part of the national social work curriculum

Review article - crime and social work

What Works: Reducing Offending James McGuire [ed] (1995) John Wiley and Sons, Chichester ISBN 471-95686 4 (paperback) Counselling in Criminal Justice Brian Williams (1996) Open University Press, Buckingham ISBN 0 335 19240 8 (paperback) Jigsaw – A Political Criminology of Youth Homelessness Pat Carlen (1996) Open University Press, Buckingham ISBN 0335 19680 2 (paperback