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Speaking to power – Advocacy for health and social care

Autor David Donnison
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 iun 2009
Anyone working, or planning to work, as an advocate for people who need help in dealing with public services will want to read this book. Advocacy is an area of increasing importance in service provision, where new ways of working have to be found that increasingly create an enabling, rather than a providing, state. Advocacy has an important part to play in this shift.Based on the experience of real advocates, "Speaking to power" is written in a vivid, jargon-free style. As well as practical chapters on 'what advocates do', using case studies from Scotland where important developments are taking place, the book discusses how advocacy fits into the broader scheme of things. Donnison describes and discusses examples of advocacy, with chapters dealing with management, training and evaluation of the work. The book concludes with a thought-provoking discussion of various strategies which help vulnerable people speak to power on more equal terms."Speaking to power" will be particularly helpful to advocates working with people who have mental health or learning difficulties, for doctors, nurses and social workers involved in advocacy, and for students preparing to enter those professions. It will also be of interest to students of social policy and other readers concerned about Britain's broader social and political development.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781847420374
ISBN-10: 1847420370
Pagini: 176
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Bristol University Press
Locul publicării:United Kingdom

Recenzii

Nobody speaks better to power than David Donnison. This book comes at just the right time, when all the assumptions of the 'natural' hierarchy and its casino economy are crashing down. Donnison's agenda is, as it must be, that what he says is heard, understood and acted upon. Julian Tudor Hart, Research Fellow, Swansea University and University of Glasgow Medical Schools

Congratulations on producing such a comprehensive and illuminating account of the development of advocacy and the issues and challenges it now faces. I hope the book will be read widely across the mental health and social care community, and not just by those who are actively involved in advocacy, since so much of what the book describes has wider implications for how we treat those with mental health and other problems. Bruce Millan, Former Secretary of State for Scotland and Chair of the Committee whose report helped to create the Scottish advocacy system

David Donnison's book 'Speaking To Power' is both challenging and timely. He argues the need for the development of a new kind of advocacy, working alongside disadvantaged and disenfranchised citizens and service users, helping them find and express their voice more powerfully and more effectively. This is a thought-provoking and inspiring book. John Benington, Professor of Public Policy and Management, Warwick Business School

..this is an interesting and well-detailed book on advocacy which contributes to an emerging field. Jenifer Booth in Political Studies Review

Notă biografică

David Donnison, Emeritus Professor, University of Glasgow

Cuprins

Introduction
Origins of advocacy
Scotland gives a lead
What advocates do: their main clients
What advocates do: questions and dilemmas
Groups and communities
Setting up an advocacy project and running it
Volunteers
Making advocacy accountable
Roadblocks
Looking ahead