Building Effective Social Work Teams
Autor Judy Fosteren Limba Engleză Hardback – 9 noi 2016
She illustrates the dilemmas and rewards of social work relationships through personal stories from her own career as a social worker, manager and teacher - and interviews with social workers and managers. These examples show the relationship between ‘doing’ something for someone and ‘being’ emotionally present to empower a service user to manage better. The book is intended to help social work managers improve the support environment for their teams – and hence their effectiveness – and to inform students and others in related professions interested in learning more about social work. It will also have a wide appeal to an international social work readership.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781138230088
ISBN-10: 1138230081
Pagini: 162
Ilustrații: 41
Dimensiuni: 174 x 246 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1138230081
Pagini: 162
Ilustrații: 41
Dimensiuni: 174 x 246 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Public țintă
Professional Practice & DevelopmentCuprins
List of figures
List of tables
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Social work – The modern era
Why do we need social workers?
Chapter 2: Support for different service users
Empowerment, maintenance, containment
Understanding service users
Chapter 3: Relating to service users and deciding interventions
Chapter 4: Beneath the surface of three teams
The district social work team
The hospital social work team
The mental health social work team
Chapter 5: Methodology used to study the three teams
Chapter 6: The need for a coherent policy framework
Chapter 7: Professional skills and development
Chapter 8: Management structures
Chapter 9: Maximizing autonomy
Chapter 10: Mental space to think reflectively
Chapter 11: Conclusions
Chapter 12: What now?
Appendix 1: Strength of the five factors for the teams
Appendix 2: Record of meetings of the teams
Meetings of the district team
Meetings of the hospital team
Meetings of the mental health team
References
Index
List of tables
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Social work – The modern era
Why do we need social workers?
Chapter 2: Support for different service users
Empowerment, maintenance, containment
Understanding service users
Chapter 3: Relating to service users and deciding interventions
Chapter 4: Beneath the surface of three teams
The district social work team
The hospital social work team
The mental health social work team
Chapter 5: Methodology used to study the three teams
Chapter 6: The need for a coherent policy framework
Chapter 7: Professional skills and development
Chapter 8: Management structures
Chapter 9: Maximizing autonomy
Chapter 10: Mental space to think reflectively
Chapter 11: Conclusions
Chapter 12: What now?
Appendix 1: Strength of the five factors for the teams
Appendix 2: Record of meetings of the teams
Meetings of the district team
Meetings of the hospital team
Meetings of the mental health team
References
Index
Notă biografică
Judy Foster is an experienced social worker and manager. She is a visiting lecturer in social work at the Tavistock Clinic, teaching postgraduate students. She trained as a child care officer before becoming a generic social worker, and managing the first referral and assessment team for a large inner city social services department. Subsequently she was head of training and staff development for the department, providing development opportunities for senior managers, social workers and care staff - introducing innovative projects in management, adult care, mental health, and children and families.
She was a national project officer at the Central Council of Education and Training in Social Work developing training standards in mentoring skills and care for children and young people; and at Skills for Care developing national training standards in mental health. She founded the Social Perspectives Network in modern mental health – and was chair of St Michael’s Fellowship, which provides residential parenting assessments to family courts and supportive work with young parents in the inner city. Her doctorate in social work was awarded in 2009. She is married with two children and three grandchildren.
She was a national project officer at the Central Council of Education and Training in Social Work developing training standards in mentoring skills and care for children and young people; and at Skills for Care developing national training standards in mental health. She founded the Social Perspectives Network in modern mental health – and was chair of St Michael’s Fellowship, which provides residential parenting assessments to family courts and supportive work with young parents in the inner city. Her doctorate in social work was awarded in 2009. She is married with two children and three grandchildren.
Recenzii
'This lively and engaging book gives us vivid insights into the rewards and challenges of managing social work teams. Although most social workers operate in teams, there is little material of evidenced practice available to managers to make their teams more effective - a gap that Judy Foster's book helpfully fills.' - Terry Bamford, Chair, Social Work History Network, U.K
'This is an unusual and original book, blending deep analytical reflection on a long career in social work, training and management with a systematic empirical study of how front line teams survive, flourish, or fail in the context of modern pressures. Lucid, lively and scholarly, this is essential reading for practitioners, leaders and policy makers with a genuine concern for the state of our services and the mental well-being of our workforce.' - Andrew Cooper, Professor of Social Work, Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust, U.K
'I warmly commend this book to social work practitioners, managers and students, and to other professionals working in allied fields, as it offers a compassionate, reasoned and realistic understanding of the challenges faced on a daily basis by individuals experiencing distress and vulnerability, and those seeking to support and empower them.' - Gillian Ruch, Professor of Social Work, University of Sussex, U.K
'This is an unusual and original book, blending deep analytical reflection on a long career in social work, training and management with a systematic empirical study of how front line teams survive, flourish, or fail in the context of modern pressures. Lucid, lively and scholarly, this is essential reading for practitioners, leaders and policy makers with a genuine concern for the state of our services and the mental well-being of our workforce.' - Andrew Cooper, Professor of Social Work, Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust, U.K
'I warmly commend this book to social work practitioners, managers and students, and to other professionals working in allied fields, as it offers a compassionate, reasoned and realistic understanding of the challenges faced on a daily basis by individuals experiencing distress and vulnerability, and those seeking to support and empower them.' - Gillian Ruch, Professor of Social Work, University of Sussex, U.K
Descriere
For decades, social work policy has been geared around checklists, maximizing throughput of cases, and responding to scandals. In this ground-breaking work, Judy Foster makes the case that such biases promote neither efficiency nor client satisfaction. Instead, she urges a complete overhaul, based on five principles: policy coherence; organisational support; autonomy; professional development; and finding space to think. The ideas she puts forward can be taken up by all social workers and those in social care, from their second year of qualifying training, to policy makers and leaders in the field.