Intelligent Kindness
Rehabilitating the Welfare State
2nd Edition
Published on 20. February 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
258 pages
978-1-911623-22-9 (ISBN)
Description
A powerful proposal of how intelligent and considered applications of authentic compassion in aspects of the welfare state could revitalise the system and bring about a greater level of wellbeing across society.
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Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Edition type
Revised edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises; 5 Line drawings, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
404 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-911623-22-9 (9781911623229)
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John Ballatt | Penelope Campling | Chris Maloney
Intelligent Kindness
Rehabilitating the Welfare State
E-Book
02/2020
2nd Edition
Cambridge University Press
€18.49
Available for download
E-Book
02/2020
RCPsych Publications
€16.99
Available for download
Previous edition
Book
06/2011
RCPsych Publications
€51.00
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Persons
John Ballatt has had a thirty-year career in UK health and social care as a practitioner, trainer, commissioner, and senior manager. He now works to support individuals, teams, and organisations in improving their wellbeing and effectiveness.
Content
Foreword; Preface to the second edition; Note from the authors; 1. The heart of the matter; 2. Rescuing kindness; 3. A politics of kindness; 4. Building the case for kindness; 5. Managing feelings of love and hate; 6. The emotional life of teams; 7. Cooperation and fragmentation; 8. On the edges of kinship; 9. Unsettling times; 10. Free to serve the public; 11. Blame; 12. The hostile environment; 13. The pull towards perversion; 14. Cultivating intelligent kindness; 15. Rehabilitating the welfare state; Index.