THE BRITISH JOURNAL OF SOCIAL WORK A BIMONTHLY PUBLICATION VOLUME 21 1991 Published for THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION OF SOCIAL WORKERS by OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS The journal is produced in a microfilm edition. Enquiries shuld be directed to University Microfilms International, 30-32 Mortimer Street, London W1N 7RQ. Back numbers of the journal are available and can be purchased from Dawson Back Issues, Folkestone, Kent CT19 SEE. Prices will be given on application. THE BRITISH JOURNAL OF SOCIAL WORK EDITOR Barbara L. Hudson, Department of Applied Social Studies and Social Research, University of Oxford, Barnett House, Wellington Square, Oxford OX1 2ER. BOOKS FOR REVIEW Books to be considered for review should be sent to the Publisher. EDITORIAL BOARD Jo Campling, Fellow, Centre for Research and Education of Gender, University of London, Institute of Education. David Challis, Assistant Director, Personal Social Services Research Unit, University of Kent at Canterbury. Veronica Coulshed, Head of Applied Social Studies Courses, Sunder- land Polytechnic. Ray Jones, Senior Assistant Director (Operations), Berkshire Social Services. Peter Raynor, Director, Centre for Applied Social Studies, University College, Swansea. Nigel Feaver, Probation Officer, Dorset. David Bromfield Smith, Lecturer in Social Work, Lancaster University. ASSESSORS Thomas R. E. Barnes, Consultant Psychiatrist, Horton Hospital, Surrey; N. Brummer, Senior Lecturer, Applied Social Studies, Goldsmiths’ College; Zofia Butrym, Senior Lecturer, London School of Economics and Political Science; John Corden, Unit Organiser, Leeds Family Service Unit; R. S. Downie, Professor of Moral Philosophy, Glasgow University; Doreen Elliot, Graduate School of Social Work, University of Texas at Arlington; Stuart Etherington, Director of Advocacy and Information, Royal National Institute for the Deaf; David Fruin, Development Officer (Mental Health), Hertfordshire Social Services; A. Furnham, Lecturer in Psychology, University College, London; D. F. Goda, School of Computing and Information Technology, Wolverhampton Polytechnic; Christine Hallet, Reader in Social Policy, Department of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Stirling; Jalna Hanmer, Lecturer, School of Applied Social Studies, University of Bradford; Nancy Hazel, Vice-Chairman Canterbury Unattached Youth Project; Annette Holman, Principal Officer, Department of Education, Glasgow; David Howe, Lecturer in Social Work, University of East Anglia; Catherine Jones, Department of Social Administra- tion, Birmingham University; W. J. O. Jordan, Reader in Social Work, Exeter University; Joyce Lishman, School of Health and Social Work, Aberdeen; Geraldine Macdonald, Lecturer in Applied Social Studies, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London; Alexina McWhinnie, Professor and Senior Research Fellow, Buckinghamshire College of Higher Education; W. W. McWilliams, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge; Audrey Mullan- der, Lecturer in Social Work, University of Nottingham; Phyllida Parsloe, Professor of Social Work, Bristol University; Margaret Robinson, University of Southampton and Institute of Family Therapy; Cherry Rowlings, Lecturer in Social Work, University of Bristol; Eric Sainsbury, Professor of Social Work, Sheffield University; Martin Shaw, Director, School of Social Work, University of Leicester; Brian Sheldon, Director of Social Work Education, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London; Michael Sheppard, Senior Lecturer in Social Work, Polytechnic South West; Jan Sinclair, National Institute for Social Work; Alice Sluckin, Senior Psychiatric Social Worker, Leicester; Nigel Smeeton, Lecturer in Statistics, Institute of Psychiatry, University of London; Judy Treseder, Projects Manager (Social Services), Royal National Institute for the Blind; Alan Twelvetrees, Lecturer in Community Work, University College, Swansea; Eleanor Ward, Team Leader, Wiltshire Social Services Department; David Webb, Professor, School of Human Sciences, Trent Polytechnic, Nottingham; Andrew Willis, Lecturer, School of Social Work, University of Leicester. CONTENTS FEBRUARY ROBERT Harrts: The Life and Death of the Care Order (Criminal) PAUL BYwaTERs: Case Finding and Screening for Social Work in Acute General Hospitals RANDHIR AULUCK and PAUL ILEs: The referral Process: A Study of Working Relationships between Antenatal Clinic Nursing Staff and Hospital Social Workers and their impact on Asian Women JOHN J. RopGer: Discourse Analysis and Social Relationships in Social Work ALAN RuSHTON: Abstracts (Psychiatry and Psychology) MERYL ALDRIDGE: Abstracts (Sociology) Book REVIEWS Books RECEIVED APRIL PATRICIA KEARNEY and MARCELLE IBBETSON: Opiate Dependent Women and their Babies FARIDA KASSIM EJAz: Self-Determination: Lessons to be learned from Social Work Practice in India RAMI BENBENISHTY, ANAT BEN-ZAKEN and HANNA YEKEL: Monitoring Interventions with Young Israeli Families D. PHiLtips, T. Bootu, S. BERRY, D. JoNES, M. LEE, A. McGLADE, J. MATTHEWS, C. MELOTTE and J. PriTLove: Independent Living Schemes J. R. FeEvLts and S. pe Grucuy: Exploring the ‘Need’ for Family Centres PAUL LopGE: Abstracts (Social Policy) Book REVIEWS Books RECEIVED CONTENTS JUNE RICHARD HUGMAN: Organization and Professionalism: The Social Work Agenda in the 1990s JANE GIBBONS: Children in Need and their Families: Outcomes of Referral to Social Services MARGARET TURNER: Literature and Social Work NINA BIEHAL and ErIc SAINSBURY: From Values to Rights in Social Work MARK CAMPBELL: Children at Risk: How different are Children on Child Abuse Registers? ANDY ALASZEWSKI and JILL MANTHORPE: Literature Review: Measuring and Managing Risk in Social Welfare COLIN WHITTINGTON: Abstracts Social Work Education Book REVIEWS Books RECEIVED AUGUST EDITORIAL JEAN PACKMAN and BILL JORDAN: The Children Act: Looking Forward, Looking Back WALTER LORENZ: The New German Children and Young People Act PAULINE HARDIKER, KEN EXTON and MARY BARKER: The Social Policy Contents of Prevention in Child Care HELEN MAsson and Tony Morrison: A 24 Hour Duty System: Using Practitioner Research to Manage the Stress LORRAINE WATERHOUSE and JAMES CARNIE: Research Note: Social Work and Police Response to Child Sexual Abuse in Scotland MATTHEW COLTON, WALTER HELLINCKX, ROGER BULLOCK and BENEDIKTE VAN DEN BRUEL: Caring for Troubled Children in Flanders, The Netherlands, and the United Kingdom CONTENTS HARRIET WARD and SONIA JACKSON: Research Note: Developing Outcome Measures in Child Care JOHN TRISELIOTIS: Maintaining the Links in Adoption CAROLINE BALL: Abstracts (Law) ALAN RuSHTON: Abstracts (Child Psychology and Psychiatry) Book REVIEWS Books RECEIVED OCTOBER FIONA JONES, BEN (C.) FLETCHER and KEITH IBBETSON: Stressors and Strains amongst Social Workers: Demands, Supports, Constraints, and Psychological Health ROGER FULLER and ALISON PETCH: Does Area Team Organization Make a Difference? ADRIAN WEBB, JILL VINCENT, GERALD WISTOW and KATHIE WRAY: Developmental Social Care: Experimental Community Mental Handicap Teams in Nottinghamshire EDWARD ALLAN BRAWLEY and RUBEN SCHINDLER: Strengthening Professional and Paraprofessional Contributions to Social Service and Social Development MICHAEL J. Scottand STEPHEN G. STRADLING: The Cognitive-Behavioural Approach with Depressed Clients MERYL ALDRIDGE: Abstracts (Sociology) PauL LopGe: Abstracts (Social Policy) CoLin Roserts: Abstracts (Criminology) NICHOLAS RaGc: Abstracts (Philosophy) Book REVIEWS Books RECEIVED DECEMBER GILL MclIvor: Social Work Intervention in Community Service CONTENTS L. R. SINGER: A Non-punitive Paradigm of Probation Practice: Some Sobering Thoughts ANN CARTWRIGHT: The Role of Residential and Nursing Homes in the last year of People’s Lives ALAN S. Yorx and HAYA ITZHAKy: How can we measure the effects of Client Participation on the Effectiveness of Social Work Intervention? MICHAEL SHEPPARD: General Practice, Social Work, and Mental Health Sections: the Social Control of Women ANDY ALASZEWSKI: Abstracts (Organization and Administration) Book REVIEWS Books RECEIVED