Forrester The Enlightened Social Worker

An Introduction to Rights-Focused Practice
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-4473-6767-3
Verlag: Policy Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 202 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

While social work theory tends to emphasise helping individuals and challenging social injustice, the reality of practice is characterised by challenge and conflict. This text offers a new concept of social work that explains the nature of these conflicts and moves beyond them, with an inspiring and practical vision of what social work is and should be.

Placing rights at the heart of practice, this introduction to social work will be useful to practitioners and students with a substantive contribution to the theoretical literature that emphasises the role of social work when rights may be in conflict, enabling students and workers to become more confident in dealing with the uncomfortable realities of practice.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Forrester, Donald

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik: Familie, Kinder, Jugendliche
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Altersgruppen Kinder- und Jugendsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Part 1: An Introduction to Rights Based Social Work

1. The Enlightenment, Social Work and Progress

2. Freedom, rights, equality, solidarity and social work

3. Needs, Rights and Social Work

Part 2: Core Intellectual Traditions for a Rights Based Social Work

4. Humanist Social Work

5. The Social Model

Part 3: How to Practice Rights Based Social Work

6. Assessment as Theory Development

7. Good assessment: Formulation and Resolution

8. Assessing Change

9. Good Practice in Direct Work: Purposeful Dialogue

10. Purposeful Dialogue and Good Authority

11. Purposeful Dialogue and Helping People

12. Creating a Collaborative Plan

13. Final Thoughts and Future Directions

Über Autor(innen)

Forrester, Donald
Donald Forrester is Professor of Child and Family Social Work and Director of CASCADE Centre for Children's Social Care Research and Development at Cardiff University.