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Prevention and Coping in Child and Family Care of related interest The Child's World Assessing Children in Need Edited by Jan Horwath 1 85302 957 2 Good Practice in Risk Assessment and Management 1 Edited by Jacki Pritchard and Hazel Kemshall 1 85302 338 8 Divorcing Children Children's Experience of their Parents' Divorce Ian Butler, Lesley Scanlan, Margaret Robinson, Gillian Douglas and Mervyn Murch 1 84310 103 3 Making an Impact – Children and Domestic Violence A Reader Marianne Hester, Chris Pearson and Nicola Harwin 1 85302 844 4 Parental Substance Misuse and Child Welfare Brynna Kroll and Andy Taylor Foreword by Jane Aldgate 1 85302 791 X Imprisoned Fathers and their Children Gwyneth Boswell and Peter Wedge 1 85302 972 6 Engaging with Fathers Practice Issues for Health and Social Care Brigid Daniel and Julie Taylor 1 85302 794 4 Prevention and Coping in Child and Family Care Mothers in adversity coping with child care Michael Sheppard with Mirka Gröhn Jessica Kingsley Publishers London and New York All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any material form (including photocopying or storing it in any medium by electronic means and whether or not transiently or incidentally to some other use of this publication) without the written permission of the copyright owner except in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 or under the terms of a licence issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency Ltd, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London, England W1P 9HE. Applications for the copyright owner’s written permission to reproduce any part of this publication should be addressed to the publisher. Warning: The doing of an unauthorised act in relation to a copyright work may result in both a civil claim for damages and criminal prosecution. The right of Michael Sheppard to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published in the United Kingdom in 2004 by Jessica Kingsley Publishers Ltd 116 Pentonville Road London N1 9JB, England and 29 West 35th Street, 10th fl. New York, NY 10001-2299, USA www.jkp.com Copyright © 2004 Michael Sheppard This work was funded by a grant from the Economic and Social Research Council, United Kingdom. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data A CIP catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 1 84310 193 9 Printed and Bound in Great Britain by Athenaeum Press, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear Contents ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Introduction 7 9 Part I: Context 1. 2. 3. 4. Policy, Prevention and Practice Dimensions of Coping Parenting Context, Study Methods 19 39 55 75 Part II: Problems and Stressors 5. Women’s Construction of Problems 6. Ascribing Responsibility and Blame 7. The Context for Coping: Associated Problems 97 119 135 Part III: Direct Coping 8. 9. 10. 11. Child-controlling Strategies Child-responsive Coping Emotion- and Self-focused Coping Strategies Four Case Studies 151 165 181 195 Part IV: Using Social Support 12. 13. 14. 15. Informal Support Seeking Help from Social Services Client Discourses of Judgements on Social Services Referral for Support to Outside Agencies 219 235 251 269 Part V: Epilogue 16. Women’s Appraisal of their Coping 17. Conclusions: Prevention and Coping in Child and Family Care 287 305 REFERENCES 327 SUBJECT INDEX 337 AUTHOR INDEX 351 Acknowledgements This book was based on research carried out with the support of