Family Support as Reflective Practice (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781843103202)

Pat Dolan is joint manager of Western Health Board/NUI, Galway Child and Family Research and Policy Unit and is the director of the forthcoming MA in Family Support Studies at the National University of Ireland. He is directly involved in research on family support and is a recognised international expert in the field. John Canavan is joint manager of Western Health Board/NUI, Galway Child and Family Research and Policy Unit. He manages and is directly involved as a researcher in the area of family support, child protection and alternative care, John Pinkerton is involved in teaching, researching and writing in the areas of family support and care leaving. He is External Examiner to the MA in Social Work course at Trinity College Dublin, a member of the editorial board of the British Journal of Social Work, a member of the advisory board of the Children's Institute, University of Cape Town and consultant to the Northern Ireland government on the development of a Northern Ireland Children's Strategy. Pat Dolan, John Canavan and John Pinkerton also co-edited Family Support: Direction from Diversity (published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers).