By Pamela Trevithick
The bestselling social paintings classic—updated to incorporate the most recent in talents and theories for practitioners at each point Written through an skilled academicpractitioner, the recent version of this bestselling textual content is up to date to incorporate the present academic, coverage, and perform contexts of social paintings. Social paintings abilities, moment variation, includes extra fabric on social paintings equipment and ways, as good as revised sections at the significance of mental and sociological theories. It additionally presents extended and extra thorough info on multi-disciplinary operating and conversation with young children and examines using language and jargon in social work—ensuring extra effective and delicate interactions among social staff and their consumers and co-workers. the focus of the ebook is on how talents will be perfected and made transferable throughout diversified contexts, carrier consumer teams, and international locations. The guide is crucial examining for all social paintings scholars and a beneficial reference instrument for practising social staff and human provider execs.
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For this reason, we need a `compassionate recasting' of the way that dependency is viewed in health and welfare contexts (Froggett 2002: 122) and to look closely at the reasons that underpin the anti-dependency culture that we have created (Hoggett 2000: 176). The knowledge base of social work 33 Yet as a society we do allow certain types of dependency. For example, according to statistics available for the UK from the National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE) for the year March 2002 to March 2003, there were 26 million NHS antidepressant prescriptions written, costing over £380 million in total.
The following is an account of some of the major theories used to analyse social work practice. Some explicitly attempt to relate the knowledge gained from other disciplines to practice situations. Howe's influential categorization divides social work into four paradigms, where a paradigm constitutes `all assumptions, theories, beliefs, values and methods that make up a particular and preferred view of the world' (Howe 1987: 22). . . g. g. g. Marxist social work). (Howe 1987: 49) This framework, and later revisions, remains influential (Payne 1997: 64; Stepney 2000b: 23-4) but is open to question, particularly the relevance of this conceptualization, and those that follow, to contemporary social work practice.
Knowledge drawn or `borrowed' from other disciplines theories that analyse the task and purpose of social work practice theories or practice approaches. Knowledge drawn from other disciplines Under the first of three headings on the subject of theoretical knowledge, we explore the knowledge that social work has drawn and adapted ± or `borrowed' ± from other disciplines (Payne 1997: 44). This has produced a potentially rich and diverse knowledge base. However, like other professions, social work is prone to fashions and, as a result, knowledge that is drawn from too many diverse sources can lead to fragmentation and an incoherent knowledge framework ± leading to a `knowledge pile' rather than a `knowledge base' (Sheldon 1995: 6).
