Authority and Social Work : Concept and Use / Shankar A. Yelaja.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yelaja, Shankar A.

Contributor:

Yelaja, Shankar A., Editor.

Series:

Heritage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authority.

Social service.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 309 pages)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The collection was designed as a text for students of social work, but it will be of equal benefit to practising social workers, and to others in the humanitarian professions.

Contents:

Cover; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I PHILOSOPHICAL CONCEPTS OF AUTHORITY; 1 The bad name of authority. YVES R. SIMON; 2 The ethics of authority. ERICH FROMM; 3 Authority, reason, and discretion. CARL J. FRIEDRICH; 4 Freedom and authority. SHANKAR A. YELAJA; PART II FORMULATIONS OF THEORIES ABOUT AUTHORITY; 5 The theory of authority. CHESTER I. BARNARD; 6 The types of authority. MAX WEBER; 7 Authority in organizations. ROBERT V. PRESTHUS; 8 Psychological authority: an operational definition for social work. EDITH M. TUFTS

9 Authority in casework

a bread-and-butter theory. DALE G. HARDMANPART III THE CONCEPT OF AUTHORITY IN SOCIAL WORK; 10 An outline for study of social authority factors in casework. ELLIOT STUDT; 11 The place of authority in the protective function of the public welfare agency. ELIZABETH DE SCHWEINITZ and CARL DE SCHWEINITZ; 12 Power and authority in treatment

a private agency point of view. A.K. COUSE; 13 Worker-client authority relationships in social work. ELLIOT STUDT; 14 Authoritarianism and social workers: a psychological study. EDWIN F. KOEPP

PART IV AUTHORITY IN SOCIAL WORK: BASIC ISSUES15 Self-determination: king or citizen in the realm of values?. SAUL BERNSTEIN; 16 Responsibility, self-determination, and authority in casework protection of older persons. EDNA WASSER; 17 Control and values in social work treatment. IRVING WEISMAN and JACOB CHWAST; 18 Major dilemmas of the social worker in probation and parole. LLOYD E. OHLIN, HERMAN PIVEN, and DONNELL M. PAPPENFORT; PART V THE USE OF AUTHORITY IN SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE; 19 The concept of authority and its use in child protective service. SHANKAR A. YELAJA

20 The use of authority in child placement. HILDA MEYEROWITZ21 Authority and permission in working with emotionally disturbed children. FRITZ REDL/DAVID WINEMAN; 22 The use of rational authority in the adolescent group. JOSEPH S. MILLER; 23 The professional leader's use of rational authority: comment. HAROLD ESTERSON; 24 The use of authority in supervision. BERNICE ORCHARD; 25 Authority: a factor in the casework relationship with trial visit patients. SALLY KNISELY; 26 Authority in the correctional process. ARTHUR E. FINK

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019)

ISBN:

1-4875-7565-3

OCLC:

1129177060