Social Work in a Changing Scotland (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Cree, Viviene E.; Smith, Mark

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Social Work in Scotland offers a comprehensive and timely account which charts the profession's history; locates present day social work within a changing political and cultural context; outlines the topography of current services, identifying key policy and practice features across different sectors; and considers the implications for the future of social work in Scotland.

By bringing together expert contributions to address key themes in social work policy, practice and ideas, this book, with its strong theoretical and practice synthesis, captures this changing context and provides expert guidance to students and practitioners as to how they might understand and practise within it.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351587266
• Artikelnr.: 54116524

Autorenporträt

Viviene E. Cree is Professor of Social Work Studies at the University of Edinburgh. Before becoming an academic and researcher, she worked as a social worker in both statutory and voluntary settings, predominantly with children, young people and families. She has written extensively on social work and social workers. Mark Smith is Professor of Social Work at the University of Dundee, having held previous academic positions at the Universities of Strathclyde and Edinburgh. He has extensive practice experience in residential child care settings, an area in which he has published widely. Other interests are in social work ethics and in exploring the role of social work in the changing political and cultural landscape in Scotland.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
List of contributors
Introduction (Mark Smith and Viviene E. Cree)
Part I. The context
Chapter 1: A history of social work in Scotland (Viviene E. Cree)
Chapter 2: Social work in a system of multi-level governance (James
Mitchell)
Chapter 3: Ethics for Scottish social work (Mark Smith)
Chapter 4: The legal context for social work in Scotland (Jean Gordon and
Roger Davis)
Chapter 5: Scottish social work in a global context (Iain Ferguson)
Part II. Themes and Issues
Chapter 6: Social work identity (Martin Kettle and Maura Daly)
Chapter 7: Social work as transitional practice (James Cox)
Chapter 8: Integrated working (Andrew Eccles)
Chapter 9: Social work education in Scotland: A (hi-)story in two halves
(Trish McCulloch)
Chapter 10. Social education: A paradigm for social work in a changing
Scotland? (Bill Whyte)
Part III. Practice with service users
Chapter 11. Social work with children and families (Gary Clapton)
Chapter 12. Looked after children (Janine Bolger)
Chapter 13. Social work with older people (Julie Christie)
Chapter 14. Criminal justice social work (Steve Kirkwood)
Chapter 15. Social work and disability (Jim Elder-Woodward)
Chapter 16. Mental health services (Gillian MacIntyre)
Chapter 17. Social work and substance misuse (Peter Hillen)
Index