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Post-qualifying mental health social work practice
- Authors:
- CAMPBELL Jim, DAVIDSON Gavin
- Publisher:
- Learning Matters
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Pagination:
- 224p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Social workers and other professionals working in the area of mental health often face complex and difficult practice dilemmas shaped by increasingly demanding policy and legal contexts across the UK. This book focuses on the post-qualifying role played by mental health social workers, drawing on theoretical and research perspectives on the subject, before outlining how professionals can achieve best practice. The topics covered include: models of mental health and illness; discrimination and social exclusion; addressing service user needs; carer perspectives; working with individuals, families and communities; and multi-disciplinary working. The chapters are accompanied by exercises, aimed at encouraging readers to critically reflect on their own professional and personal experiences. Case studies are also included to illustrate the information provided in the text. This book will be of interest to social work practitioners taking postgraduate courses in mental health and for those training to become Approved Mental Health Professionals.
Coercion in the community: a situated approach to the examination of ethical challenges for mental health social workers
- Authors:
- CAMPBELL Jim, DAVIDSON Gavin
- Journal article citation:
- Ethics and Social Welfare, 3(3), November 2009, pp.249-263.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Abingdon
It is suggested that mental health social workers in the United Kingdom and elsewhere in the world are increasing their use of coercive interventions with clients. The authors reflect upon the way in which mental health law, policy and organisational arrangements lead to coercive practices. Drawing on their own experience, as well as national and international research literature, they discuss the complex, contested nature of ideas on coercion and go on to explore debates about how coercion is perceived and applied in practice. In the first section of the paper they consider informal, unmonitored and often hidden forms of coercion and then contrast this with the more evident, explicit form seen in legally mandated Community Treatment orders. The final part of the paper describes a tentative model that could be used to explain and situate the complex and ethically challenging, decision making process involved in such interventions. The authors argue that mental health social workers need to engage with the complexity of ethical problems and dilemmas that confront practitioners about how and why coercion is used in everyday practice. They call for a more holistic, situated approach to help deal with these concerns.