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The enlightened social worker : an introduction to rights-focused practice / Donald Forrester.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Forrester, Donald, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social workers.
- Social service.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vii, 194 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol : Policy Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- This text offers a new concept of social work that is an inspiring and practical vision of what Social Work is and should be, placing rights at the heart of practice, enabling students and workers to become more confident dealing with the uncomfortable realities of practice.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- The Enlightened Social Worker: An Introduction to Rights-Focused Practice
- Copyright information
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- List of figures, tables and boxes
- Acknowledgements
- Part I Rights and social work
- 1 Social work: tensions, conflicts and rights
- Social work and conflict
- Content of the book
- 2 The Enlightenment, social work and progress
- What was the Enlightenment?
- Criticisms of the Enlightenment
- Enlightenment ideals, oppression and resistance
- The birth of rights: individual freedom and negative rights
- The first generation of rights: negative freedom and liberty
- The second generation of rights: positive freedom, needs and equality
- Criticisms of individualised rights and the development of the third generation of rights
- A response to these criticisms: social work and third-generation rights
- Towards rights-focused social work
- 3 On rights and social work
- A case study of rights-focused practice
- Rights and the case study
- Social work and human rights
- Rights in social work practice
- 4 Liberty, helping and protection
- Rights and capacity issues
- On rights and helping
- The Mancini family
- The ladder of consequences and parental change
- So how can we work around change in protection? The ethics of social work
- How should we work with the ladder of consequences?
- Why do social workers talk to people like this?
- How should social workers talk with people?
- Conclusion
- 5 Social work, positive freedom and need
- Social work with children in need: a case study
- Social work and social need
- Social work, equality, positive rights and social need
- Individual and social need
- Social work, social needs and rights
- The uncomfortable nature of social work
- 6 Human connection, community and love
- The Williams family.
- What's love got to do with it?
- What is love?
- Social work and loving relationships
- Social workers and love
- A kind of loving
- Complications in applying a love ethic to rights-focused practice
- Love and professional boundaries
- What about unloveable people and actions?
- Implications of an ethic of love for social work
- Part II Theories for rights-focused practice
- 7 Humanist social work
- History of humanist psychology and social work
- Abraham Maslow
- Carl Rogers
- Humanist helping
- Values and beliefs
- Practices
- Evidence
- Later developments in humanist helping
- Humanism and social work
- 8 The social model
- What is the medical model?
- Development of the social model
- The development of the social model in relation to disability
- The social model and child and family social work
- Limitations of the social model
- The social model, rights and social work
- Rights, humanist approaches and the social model
- Part III Rights-focused practice
- 9 Assessment as theory development
- What is assessment?
- Challenges for assessment
- Theories of assessment in social work
- Research methodology and social work assessment
- Positivism, social constructionism and realism
- On theories, hypotheses and formulations
- 10 Assessment, formulations and rights
- Origins of formulation
- What are formulations?
- How to approach formulation: the four Ps
- Formulation, rights and social work: three more Ps
- Humanist and social model contributions
- What are hypotheses and how can we use them in assessment and practice?
- Developing a formulation for Janet: the seven Ps
- Presenting issue
- Personal perspectives
- Predisposing factors
- Precipitating factors
- Perpetuating factors
- Protective factors
- Principles, policies and proportionality
- 11 Working with individuals and families.
- How do social workers talk to people?
- Purposeless practice
- Purposeful practice
- Muscular authoritarianism or good authority?
- Good authority and purposeful dialogue in practice
- What might a different approach be like?
- Working with capacity issues
- 12 Rights beyond the individual and the family
- Family Group Conferences
- Child sexual and criminal exploitation and Contextual Safeguarding
- Social work at the macro level and the 'smacking ban' in Wales
- 13 Social work, rights and society
- Rights-focused practice and social work
- The extent and limits of a rights focus for social work
- The critique of current practice
- Rights, policies and research
- On rights and love
- Social work and the Enlightenment
- Social work and progress
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Dec 2024).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-4473-6769-3
- 1-4473-6768-5
- 9781447367673
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