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Empowering practice in social care / Suzy Braye and Michael Preston-Shoot.

By: Braye, Suzy, 1950-.
Contributor(s): Preston-Shoot, Michael.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Buckingham ; Philadelphia : Open University Press, 1995Description: viii, 205 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0335192459 (paperback); 0335192467 (hardback).Subject(s): Social service -- Great Britain | Human services -- Great Britain | Community organization -- Great Britain | Neighborhoods -- Great BritainAdditional physical formats: Electronic version:.: Empowering practice in social care.DDC classification: 361.94 Also available in electronic form.
Contents:
Introduction -- Part I: Overarching mandates and values -- Social care: the policy context -- Values in social care -- Training and staff development -- Part II: Conflicting imperatives and practice dilemmas: finding creative and coherent solutions -- Conflicts of interest in social care -- Power, partnership and empowerment -- Part III: Managing the social care process -- Empowering practice: understanding and managing user-worker processes -- Understanding and managing the interprofessional system -- Managing the personal experience of work.

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

In answer to popular demand from students and practitioners alike, Braye and Preston-Shoot have produced a guide to understanding the complex area of community care. What are the core components of the Government's community care policy? What do terms like partnership, anti-discriminatory and anti-oppressive practice mean? This book provides a simple exposition of the concepts and value-base underpinning community care policy and practice. Written in a jargon-free style, it goes beyond the how-to approach of much of the existing social care literature and examines the principles and values on which professionals involved in welfare provision base their work. It addresses issues of power and partnership in professional practice and identifies dilemmas arising from the relationship between Needs, Rights and Resources, between Autonomy, Paternalism and Empowerment. It tackles the choices and uncertainties faced by those making decisions about service provision, and offers survival strategies to professionals under stress.

Bibliography: (pages 177-195) and indexes.

Introduction -- Part I: Overarching mandates and values -- Social care: the policy context -- Values in social care -- Training and staff development -- Part II: Conflicting imperatives and practice dilemmas: finding creative and coherent solutions -- Conflicts of interest in social care -- Power, partnership and empowerment -- Part III: Managing the social care process -- Empowering practice: understanding and managing user-worker processes -- Understanding and managing the interprofessional system -- Managing the personal experience of work.

CIT Module SOCI 8004 - Core reading.

CIT Module SOCI 8007- Core reading.

Also available in electronic form.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Introduction
  • Social Care: The Policy Context
  • Values in Social Care
  • Training and Staff Development
  • Conflicting Imperatives and Practice Dilemmas: Finding Creative and Coherent Solutions
  • Conflicts of Interest in Social Care Power, Partnership and Empowerment
  • Managing the Social Care Process Empowering
  • Practice: Understanding and Managing User Worker Processes
  • Understanding and Managing the Inter Professional System
  • Managing the Personal Experience of Work
  • Bibliography