ABSTRACT
Just as the previous chapter cast a critical eye over social work’s reliance on attachment theory, so this chapter, written by two social epidemiologists (Michelle Kelly-Irving and Cyrille Delpierre) based in France, interrogates another prominent idea within social work policy and practice today: the Adverse Child Experiences framework. Their paper demonstrates the danger of extrapolating from populations to individuals and makes salutary reading for all those who have seen this framework as ‘the answer’ to a host of different problems in social work and in life.
