Sets out to identify the experience and views of those service users who had been involved in various aspects of Hampshire SSD's work. Client groups surveyed include older people, users of mental health services, and people with disabilities.
Sets out to identify the experience and views of those service users who had been involved in various aspects of Hampshire SSD's work. Client groups surveyed include older people, users of mental health services, and people with disabilities.
Subject terms:
learning disabilities, mental health problems, older people, physical disabilities, service users, user participation, user views, child care, families;
Looks at housing problems faced by clients of social work agencies, and how problem-solving strategies must be evolved by the professionals concerned. Uses surveys, case studies and policy analysis to piece together possible practice strategies. Includes chapters on: leaving home; leaving institutions; relationship breakdown; homeless families; difficult estates; and ill health, old age and housing.
Looks at housing problems faced by clients of social work agencies, and how problem-solving strategies must be evolved by the professionals concerned. Uses surveys, case studies and policy analysis to piece together possible practice strategies. Includes chapters on: leaving home; leaving institutions; relationship breakdown; homeless families; difficult estates; and ill health, old age and housing.
Subject terms:
homeless people, homelessness, housing, leaving care, looked after children, older people, physical illness, social work, young people, families;
In 3 sections: assessment of the 1980's (including chapter on private welfare); prospects for the 1990's (including chapter on community care and older people); and ideas for the 1990's (including chapter on the anti-racist struggle).
In 3 sections: assessment of the 1980's (including chapter on private welfare); prospects for the 1990's (including chapter on community care and older people); and ideas for the 1990's (including chapter on the anti-racist struggle).
Subject terms:
older people, private sector, poverty, social policy, social services, voluntary organisations, anti-racist practice, black and minority ethnic people, community care, crime, families, employment;
Provides an interdisciplinary look at the knowledge, skills and attitudes required of gerontological practitioners working in America. Looks at understanding ageing in America; health and illness in later years; incontinence; medication; differential assessment of dementia and depression; case management; working with families; ethical reasoning; death, bereavement and loss; and ethnic issues in health care delivery.
Provides an interdisciplinary look at the knowledge, skills and attitudes required of gerontological practitioners working in America. Looks at understanding ageing in America; health and illness in later years; incontinence; medication; differential assessment of dementia and depression; case management; working with families; ethical reasoning; death, bereavement and loss; and ethnic issues in health care delivery.
Subject terms:
incontinence, medication, long term care, older people, ageing, assessment, bereavement, black and minority ethnic people, case management, death, dementia, depression, families, ethics, health, health care;
Student textbook which takes a discipline-orientated approach to social work. Includes chapters on: social work as a profession; social work and social systems; the social service delivery system in the United States; social work and social justice; social work and diversity (including work with black and minority ethnic people and with gay and lesbian people); generalist social work; social work in the health and mental health fields; work with families; and work with children and older people.
Student textbook which takes a discipline-orientated approach to social work. Includes chapters on: social work as a profession; social work and social systems; the social service delivery system in the United States; social work and social justice; social work and diversity (including work with black and minority ethnic people and with gay and lesbian people); generalist social work; social work in the health and mental health fields; work with families; and work with children and older people.
Subject terms:
hospital social work, learning disability nursing, lesbians, medical social work, medical social workers, older people, problem solving, social work, social care provision, social work theories, sociology, students, black and minority ethnic people, children, families, empowerment, ethics, gay men, gender;