Social Work The Basics 1st Edition by Mark Doel ISBN 978-0415603997 0415603997
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ISBN 10: 0415603997
ISBN 13: 978-0415603997
Author: Mark Doel
Social Work: The Basics is an insightful introduction to the often misrepresented world of social work. This accessible book presents a broad view of contemporary social work, exploring its roots and its possible future. It dispels myths surrounding social work, addresses media debates, and offers a balanced account of what social workers do. The book argues for a social work that is partisan in support of social justice. Questions covered include:
How did social work arise?
How and why do people come into contact with social workers?
What are the true aims of social work – to help or to control?
What is the relationship between social work and social policy?
How and why do people become social workers?
What’s it like to be a social worker?
Can social work cross borders?
Drawing examples from the full range of social work practice, this book is valuable reading for all individuals interested in the field of social work. It will provide a helpful introduction for students considering a career in social work, those beginning social work courses, and other professionals whose work brings them into contact with social workers and who want to find out more about what social work is.
Table of contents:
Pioneer, investigator, agitator: a brief introduction
1 Reformist or radical: Social work’s roots and different identities
What is social work?
Definitions
Metaphors
The social work story
Origins of social work
Early reformist roots
Early radical roots
Social work values and ethics
Beginnings of social work knowledge
Usable knowledge
Service user knowledge
Roots of models and methods
Social and medical models
Evolution of social work education
Development of social work organisation
Professional organisation
Welfare
Welfare state
Welfare models
Social work and social problems
Social and global problems
Social policy and wicked problems
Social justice and social inclusion
Care and control
Power and oppression
Critical social policy: the example of benefit fraud
Unintended consequences
Agents of the state?
Ideology
Religion
Capital, labour and commodification
Community
A few -isms
Managerialism
Reorganising services
The cousins
Social pedagogy
In conclusion
Further reading
Some related weblinks
References
2 Harridan or heroine: the public face of social work
Public image
Harridan and heroine
Humour
Blame and the public inquiry
Public awareness
Public service
Public, private and third ways
Cuts
Media
Press
TV, radio and film
Social media
Politics
Party politics
Grandstanding
Social work responses
Campaigns
College of Social Work
Whistleblowing
Themes
Emotional involvement, stress and burnout
Taboos
Language
Jargon
Political correctness
In conclusion
Further reading
Some related weblinks
References
3 Clients or service users: how and why people come into contact with social work
Neither universal nor mainstream
Clients
Who becomes a service user and how?
Life course
Looking after other people’s children
Adoption
Fostering
Children and families
Children leaving care
Child cruelty
Early intervention and prevention work
Court work and youth justice
Disabilities
Mental health
Compulsory admission to hospital
Drug and alcohol misuse
Refugees, asylum seekers and travellers
Older people
Service users who do not want to be service users
Service users providing and buying social services
‘Personalisation’
Carers
Service users as volunteers
Where do social workers and clients meet?
Home visits
On a caseload
How long do you have a social worker for?
Eligibility and rationing
Case closed
Themes
Dilemmas in social work
Hard to reach or seldom heard
Race, ethnicity and diversity
Gender
Risk and safeguarding
Physical contact
Restraint
Violence
Sex
What do service users want from social work?
In conclusion
Further reading
Some related weblinks
References
4 A profession or a career; a calling or a job: what social workers do and how social work is organised
A profession
What is a profession?
Professionalism
Dress code
A career or a calling
Career structure
Trainees, support workers and volunteers
A job
The workforce
Recruitment and retention
Employment and working conditions
Agency social workers (locums)
Pay and pension
Unions and industrial relations
Health and safety
Themes
Accountability
Autonomy
Authority
Bureaucracy and discretion
Teamwork
Workload
Management and leadership
Social work practice
Strengths perspective
Social work methods
Milieu: individual, family, group, community
Process and outcome
Co-working
A week in social work
Social work and social care
How social work services are organised
Public sector (statutory)
Private, voluntary and independent (PVI)
sectors
New and developing shapes
How social work services are bought and sold
Commissioning
Outsourcing
Funding by results
Regulation, inspection and conduct
Assuring the quality of social work
Workforce organisations
Sanctions
Relations with the neighbours
Multiprofessional work
Health – living with a powerful neighbour
Relations with other professions
Integrating services
In conclusion
Further reading
Some related weblinks
References
5 A discipline or a skill; an education or a training: how social workers learn their practice
A discipline
Social work research
Doctoral social work
Evidence-based practice
Evaluation
Theory and practice
Social work skills
Assertiveness
Self-disclosure
Recording
New skills and new technologies
Imagination
Reflective practice
Competence approach
Holistic approach
Education and training
Social work education
Student social workers
Drop out
Funding and costs
Becoming a social worker
The social work curriculum
Undergraduate and postgraduate
Full-time, part-time and work-based
Distance, flexible, open, virtual and mobile
learning
Interprofessional learning
Placements and practice learning
Signature pedagogy
What students do and learn on placements
How students are assessed on placements
The organisation of social work education
Academy and agency partnerships
Funding
Workforce planning
Supervision
Student supervision and agency supervision
Independent supervision
Methods of teaching student social workers
Law and social work
Other significant aspects of the law
Civil damages
After qualification
Licensing and registration
Newly qualified social workers
Continuing professional development
In conclusion
Further reading
Some related weblinks
References
6 Universal or specific: social work local and global
Generic and specialist
Generic, generalist and specialist
Specifics in social work
Field
Setting and sector
Service user groupings
Location
Method
Expertise
Organisational form
Countries of the United Kingdom
Social policies
Organisation of services
Organisation of social work education
Regulation
International social work
Social work’s international presence
What is international social work?
Local context
Global context
Global topics
Similarities
Comparative practice
Cultural competence
Working through interpreters
International mobility
Cross-national activities
Recruitment from overseas
Working overseas
Study exchanges
In conclusion
Further reading
Some related weblinks
References
7 Past and future: the pioneers of today are the prophets of tomorrow (Attlee)
Challenges
Globalisation
An ideal social work?
Reference
Index of names
Index of subjects
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