Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

`This is an ambitious book attemping to be relevant to a wide range of professionals in the health and welfare fields and to move from the macro policy context for change to the micro concerns of individual professional client relationships... There is much that will be of use and/or interest to both practitioners and researchers alike′ - Social Policy

Designed to lay sound foundations for continuing professional development in a world of rapid change, this Reader draws together key articles exploring the recent challenges facing professionals across the spectrum of health and social care. Topics examined include: accountability to service users, funders and communities; the skills needed for teamwork and collaboration; and ethical dilemmas of working in conditions of resource constraint, and engaging in questions of quality and performance review. The chapters reflect the similarities and differences between the NHS and social services.

This a set book for the Open University course K302 Critical Practice in Health and Social Care.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Introduction
• Part 1 Contextualising: Working With Changing Structures
• Introduction
• Reshaping Welfare
• Voices from the Debate
• The Public Administration Model of Welfare Delivery
• Why Change Policy? Community Care in 1990
• Changes in Maternity Policy - Who, What and Why?
• Knights, Knaves or Pawns? Human Behaviour and Social Policy
• Part 2 Connecting: Theory, Values and Practice
• Theory and Practice in Health and Social Care
• Applying Reflective Practice
• Reflection and Reflective Practice
• Requirements of a Caregiver
• The Virtuous Therapist
• Social Work Values
• Anti-Oppressive Theory and Practice in Social Work
• Working with Diversity
• Beyond the Factfile
• Part 3 Collaborating: Shifting Boundaries, Changing Practice
• Keys to Collaboration
• Safe Haven and Battleground
• Collaboration and Conflict within the Treatment Team
• Structure and Meaning in Multidisciplinary Teamwork
• A Split in the Mirror
• Using Psychotherapeutic Concepts to Understand Team Conflict
• Dropping 'E's
• The Missing Link in Quality Assurance for Disabled People
• Quality in Personal Social Services
• The Developing Role of User Involvement in the UK
• Part 4 Coping: With Challenges and Constraints
• Not Such an Ordinary Relationship
• The Role of Women Support Staff in Relation to Men with Learning Disabilities Who Have Difficult Sexual Behaviour
• Care Costs
• Towards a Critical Understanding of Care
• Confidentiality, Accountability and the Boundaries of Client-Worker Relationships
• Obstacles to Medical Audit
• British Doctors Speak
• The Accreditation Experience
• Resettlement of People with Severe Learning Difficulties
• Juggling and Dealing
• The Creative Work of Care Package Purchasing
• Instruments of Government? Voluntary Sector Boards in a Changing Public Policy Environment
• Part 5 Constructing: Professional Identities
• Seeing Anew
• Understanding Professional Practice as Artistry
• The End of Professionalism
• Professionalism and Health Care
• Social Work and Professionalisation
• A Legacy of Ambivalence
• Nurses Taking on Junior Doctors' Work
• A Confusion of Accountability
• Looking for New Codes in the Field of Predictive Medicine
• Care and the Transformation of Professionalism
• Part 6 Creating: A Better Future?
• From Private Choice to Public Trust
• A New Social Basis for Welfare
• User Voice, Interprofessionalism and Postmodernity
• Handling the Wicked Issues

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Dr Linda Finlay is a relational-centred, existential Integrative Psychotherapist and Supervisor (UKCP registered) in private practice in York, UK. She also teaches psychology and counselling at the Open University (UK) and works as a freelance academic consultant. She has published many books and articles on psychotherapy, occupational therapy, reflexivity and phenomenological research. Her most recent books are psychotherapeutically focused: Relational Integrative Psychotherapy: Engaging Process and Theory in Practice (Wiley); Practical Ethics: A relational approach (Sage); and The therapeutic use of self in counselling and psychotherapy (Sage).