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Applied social care : an introduction for students in Ireland / edited by Kevin Lalor and Perry Share.

Contributor(s): Share, Perry [editor.] | Lalor, Kevin [editor.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Dublin : Gill & Macmillan, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Edition: Third edition.Description: xv, 443 pages ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780717156238 (paperback).Subject(s): Public welfare -- Ireland | Social service -- Ireland | Social work education -- Ireland | Social services & welfare, criminology | Educational: Social sciences, social studies | Higher & further education, tertiary education | Society | Ireland -- Social conditionsDDC classification: 361.9417 | 361.007 APP
Contents:
Part 1: Understanding social care / Kevin Lalor and Perry Share -- What is social pedagogy? A new way of working with older people in Sweden / Mats Hogstrom, Riitta Nilsson and Per-Axel Hallstedt with Perry Share -- The practice of child and youth care in North America / Grant Charles and Thom Garfat -- Part 2: Psychological theories of child development / Aine de Roiste -- Equality: a challenge to social care / Majella Mulkeen -- Learn about your 'self' before you work with others / Denise Lyons -- Gender, sexuality and social care / Jacqueline O'Toole -- Evidence-based practice in social care / Tom Farrelly -- Therapeutic social care practice / John Byrne -- Part 3: The social care practice placement: a college perspective / Judy Doyle and Kevin Lalor -- Using professional supervision in social care / Eileen O'Neill-- Managing challenging behaviour / Eleanor Fitzmaurice -- Social care management: theory and practice / Vicki Anderson, Judy Doyle and Patrick McGarty --Social care practitioners as agents, advocates and enablers of health promotion / Frank Houghton and Sharon Houghton -- Emancipatory social care practice / Majella Mulkeen -- Part 4: Residential child care / John McHugh and Danny Meenan -- Social care and the older person / Carmel Gallagher -- Social care and family support work / Colm O'Doherty -- Social care in services for people with a disability / Karen Finnerty -- Travellers in Ireland and issues of social care / Tamsin Cavaliero and Hannagh McGinley -- Working with young people: discourse, policy and practice / Maurice Devlin -- Homelessness / Mairead Seymour -- The juvenile justice system / Eileen Farrell -- Social care in a multicultural society / Celesta McCann James.
Summary: This is an updated edition of this comprehensive introduction to all key study areas within applied social care. New to this edition are international perspectives on social care, an update on the social care professional development project, new chapters on therapeutic approaches to social care practice, child protection, health promotion, and working with juvenile offenders.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Third edition of this popular comprehensive introduction to all key study areas within Applied Social Care and Social Care Practice, including theoretical approaches, practice issues, social care and specific population groups.

New to this edition: International perspectives on social care practice, drawing on experience in Ireland, Europe and North America An update on the social care professional development project New chapters on therapeutic approaches to social care practice, child protection, health promotion and working with juvenile offenders.

Provides a historical outline of social care in Ireland, with reference to key institutions, legislation and regulations.

Identifies theoretical bases of social care practice in psychology, sociology and social policy, and how these have evolved and developed through the interplay of theory-building, evidence-gathering, policy development and polemical debate.

Examines the fundamental role of 'self' in social care practice and concepts, practices of equality and anti-oppressive practice.

Focuses on key practice issues, including student placement, workplace supervision, multidisciplinary teamworking and responding to challenging behaviour.

Examines social care practice with particular social and demographic groups - young people, older people, the homeless, those with disabilities, the Travelling community and new immigrant communities - and identifies the required skills and approaches associated with this work.

Endorsed by the Irish Association of Social Care Educators (IASCE ) and by Social Care Ireland (SCI).

Suitable For:

Students of Social Care/Applied Social Studies at degree and honours degree level

Previous edition: 2009.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-423) and index.

Part 1: Understanding social care / Kevin Lalor and Perry Share -- What is social pedagogy? A new way of working with older people in Sweden / Mats Hogstrom, Riitta Nilsson and Per-Axel Hallstedt with Perry Share -- The practice of child and youth care in North America / Grant Charles and Thom Garfat -- Part 2: Psychological theories of child development / Aine de Roiste -- Equality: a challenge to social care / Majella Mulkeen -- Learn about your 'self' before you work with others / Denise Lyons -- Gender, sexuality and social care / Jacqueline O'Toole -- Evidence-based practice in social care / Tom Farrelly -- Therapeutic social care practice / John Byrne -- Part 3: The social care practice placement: a college perspective / Judy Doyle and Kevin Lalor -- Using professional supervision in social care / Eileen O'Neill-- Managing challenging behaviour / Eleanor Fitzmaurice -- Social care management: theory and practice / Vicki Anderson, Judy Doyle and Patrick McGarty --Social care practitioners as agents, advocates and enablers of health promotion / Frank Houghton and Sharon Houghton -- Emancipatory social care practice / Majella Mulkeen -- Part 4: Residential child care / John McHugh and Danny Meenan -- Social care and the older person / Carmel Gallagher -- Social care and family support work / Colm O'Doherty -- Social care in services for people with a disability / Karen Finnerty -- Travellers in Ireland and issues of social care / Tamsin Cavaliero and Hannagh McGinley -- Working with young people: discourse, policy and practice / Maurice Devlin -- Homelessness / Mairead Seymour -- The juvenile justice system / Eileen Farrell -- Social care in a multicultural society / Celesta McCann James.

This is an updated edition of this comprehensive introduction to all key study areas within applied social care. New to this edition are international perspectives on social care, an update on the social care professional development project, new chapters on therapeutic approaches to social care practice, child protection, health promotion, and working with juvenile offenders.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Kevin Lalor, PhD, is Head of School of Social Sciences and Law at Dublin Institute of Technology. He is editor of the Irish Journal of Applied Social Studies and co-author of Young People in Contemporary Ireland.


Perry Share, PhD, is Head of the Department of Social Sciences at the Institute of Technology Sligo. He is a founder member of the Irish Association of Social Care Educators and Research Associate of the Irish Social Science Platform. He is co-author of A Sociology of Ireland.