Social Welfare and Social Value - Hugman, Richard
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Changes in ideas about social welfare have required caring professions to adapt their practices in ways which have challenged their underlying values and their relationships with service users. Focusing on nursing, remedial therapy and social work, this book examines core social values expressed through policy. The implications of these ideas for the caring professions in social welfare are explored, as are important questions about the use of industrial and commercial metaphors in health and human services.
Table of contents:
PART ONE: THE VALUES OF SOCIAL WELFARE
Values in Policy…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
Changes in ideas about social welfare have required caring professions to adapt their practices in ways which have challenged their underlying values and their relationships with service users. Focusing on nursing, remedial therapy and social work, this book examines core social values expressed through policy. The implications of these ideas for the caring professions in social welfare are explored, as are important questions about the use of industrial and commercial metaphors in health and human services.

Table of contents:

PART ONE: THE VALUES OF SOCIAL WELFARE
Values in Policy and Practice
Values Revisited: Need, Responsibility and Citizenship
The Role of Professional Values

PART TWO: THE COMMODIFICATION OF SOCIAL WELFARE
Producing Social Welfare
Professionals as Producers
Service Users as Consumers

PART THREE: THE PROFESSIONS IN SOCIAL WELFARE
Reshaping Relations in Social Welfare
The Future for Professionalism
Bibliography
Index
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Autorenporträt
Originally a social work practitioner, RICHARD HUGMAN has for many years worked in universities in Britain and Australia. Currently, he is Professor of Social Work at Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia.