Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care Vol 15 No 3

Special issue: Love in professional practice

In this special issue, we open up a responsible and healthy discussion on love in professional practice, exploring the importance of love in children's lives and the complexity of what this means in a professional context.

This issue is guest edited by Mark Smith, Head of Social Work at the University of Edinburgh.

Editorial

Name	Authors
Editorial Volume 15.3	Mark Smith

Peer reviewed articles

Name	Authors
Perspectives on love as a component of professional practice	Jennifer Vincent
The growth of love	Keith White
More than just a bracelet: The use of material symbolism to communicate love	Ruth Edmond
Orphan love in the age of capital	Hans Skott-Myhre et al
Love: Recognising relationships in work with vulnerable youth	Hilde Marie Thrana
Do you love me: An empirical analysis of the feeling of love amongst children in out-of-home care	Mette Lausten and Signe Frederiksen
Children's Quest for love and professional child protection work: The case of Norway	Cecilie Basberg Neumann
Cultivating human beings not human doings: Challenging discourses of self-care	Nicole Little

Commentary, reflections and other articles

Name	Authors
Appropriate and inappropriate relationships: David’s story	Nicola
Fostering Restoration: The impact of love and second families in residential care	Rose Ann Obenque
Love in social care: Necessary pre-requisite or blurring of boundaries	John Byrne
Aroha: Loving within a statutory and bi-cultural residential environment	Andrew Sutherland
Faith hope and love in social work practice	Hannah Ravdale
The umbrella of boundaries love and grief	Michelle Chalupa

Book reviews

Name	Authors
Social care and child welfare in Ireland: Integrating residential care leaving care and aftercare	Thom Garfat
Daring greatly: How the courage to be vulnerable transforms the way we live love parent and lead	Chris Walter
Ethics of care: Critical advances in international perspectives	Richard Ingram