Introduction to Rights-based Direct Practice with Children

CRY had commissioned Dr. Murli Desai, MA and Ph.D. in Social Work, and former Professor at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, to prepare a Series of four Sourcebooks on Rights-Based Direct Practice with Children. Dr. Desai has prepared two of the Sourcebooks by adapting, updating and adding chapters to her book A Rights-Based Preventative Approach for Psychosocial Well-Being in Childhood, published by Springer, in 2010. Other two sourcebooks are newly prepared by her with a co-author. She has drawn from a comprehensive international literature review; curriculum planning and teaching courses on child development, child welfare and child rights in the United States, India and Singapore; consultancy projects with Governments of India, Tamil Nadu and Goa and with international organisations such as UNICEF, Child Protection Working Group and Save the Children; collaboration with voluntary organisations such as Butterflies and Child Rights in Goa; teacher training in schools; and experience of conducting and facilitating workshops for adolescents.

• 1.The Methodology of Participatory Group Workshops.- Part 1: Foundation of Life Skills Development 2. Self-Empowerment.- 3. Proactive Thinking Skills.- 4. Emotional Intelligence.- 5. Sensitive Interpersonal Communication Skills.- 6. Collaborative Interpersonal Relationship Skills.- Part 2: Theories of Childhood and Rights-based Direct Practice with Children 7. Psychosocial Theories of Development in Childhood and Adolescence.- 8. Sociological Theories of Family and Childhood Diversity in the Environmental Context.- 9. Critical Theories of Deconstruction of Problems in Childhood.- 10. Child Rights History, Ideology, Categories, Principles and Service Delivery Approach.- 11. Child Rights-based Engagement with Children.- 12.Child Rights-based Parenting Education.