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Home and away
- Authors:
- GOODISON Lucy, ARMITAGE Jane
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Today, 14.11.91, 1991, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Looks at the crucial role social workers play in supporting families from ethnic minorities with a child with learning difficulties.
A special case for special treatment
- Authors:
- COCKING Iseult, ATHWAL Surinder
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Today, 8.2.90, 1990, pp.12-13.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Many Asian families with children with learning difficulties know little about their rights.
Exclusion zone
- Author:
- DOWNEY Rachel
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 27.9.01, 2001, pp.29-33.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The author reports on the issues, what hope is there for the government's initiatives to promote social inclusion when social workers, who are best placed to act as advocates for vulnerable groups, are themselves feeling excluded while some service users explain how social care workers have helped them to turn around their lives.
Anti-racist practice: the role of the social worker in managing different perspectives
- Authors:
- DESAI Suki, AASRA Garrib
- Journal article citation:
- Care the Journal of Practice and Development, 7(1), December 1998, pp.39-47.
- Publisher:
- Pepar
Presents a case study of a South Asian man in his mid-30s with learning difficulties, who has been in psychiatric care since he was 16 years of age. Uses the case study to deconstruct racist and oppressive practices and draws out issues to construct anti-oppressive practice within its proper context.
Women, oppression and social work: issues in anti-discriminatory practice
- Editors:
- LANGAN Mary, DAY Lesley
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 259p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Offers a new perspective on feminist social work which takes into account the complexity of manifold oppressions that affect the lives of most women and most social work clients. Includes chapters on: race, class and gender; women in the mixed economy of care; feminism, managerialism and performance measurement; social work education; black single mothers; women with learning difficulties; women in residential work; lesbians, the state and social work practice; and social work and older women.
A guide to interviewing children: essential skills for counsellors, police, lawyers and social workers
- Editors:
- WILSON C. J., POWELL Martine
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 163p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Aimed at professionals who may have to interview a child about sexual abuse. Begins by describing children's views of the world and how their perceptions differ from those of an adult. Explains how to plan and prepare for an interview, and different interviewing techniques. Discusses how to communicate with disabled children and those from different cultural backgrounds. Concludes by discussing the aftermath of the interview, and debriefing the child and interviewer.
Rights, needs and the user perspective: a review of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990
- Editors:
- BALLOCH Sue, et al
- Publisher:
- National Institute for Social Work
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 105p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Review looking at the diverse and sometimes contradictory perspectives and experiences of a wide range of stakeholders in community care services. Aims to record what they think has really been taking place. Contains chapters on: key issues; identifying need; users' perspectives; the perspective of black communities; older people; older people with dementia and their carers; people with learning difficulties; rationing, charging and costs; housing and community care; community care and substance misuse; and social services departments and their staff.
Crisis in the human services: national and international issues; selected papers from a conference held at the University of Cambridge, September 1996
- Editor:
- ADAMS Robert
- Publisher:
- University of Lincolnshire and Humberside. Schools of Social Policy and Social S
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 424p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Kingston upon Hull
Includes papers on: lawyers and social work serving the poor; research on low income women in Brazil; ethical issues in community care practice; research in the context of human services in crisis; boundary crossing in community care; citizen participation models; schizophrenia in a cultural context; the paradigm shift in the delivery of public services and the crisis of professionalism; partnerships with service users - considerations for research; education and labour; methodological issues for the qualitative health researcher of diaspora communities; elderly women prisoners; evaluating for empowerment; solving the problem of health care costs; services for people with learning difficulties; deinstitutionalisation policies in Queensland; debt and budget deficit reduction policies in the USA; the impact of constitutional change in South Africa on social work services; new trends in human services in America; health promotion in Cuba; the anti-rape movement on campus; protecting children against sexual abuse; distance learning; developing human services managers through work based learning; multidisciplinary services in primary care; partnerships with users; teamwork across disciplines; the attack on social work in New York hospitals and the fight back; government guidance in the construction of the social work profession; the provision of psychosocial care after major incidents; and crisis, change and innovation in social work education.