Health, Welfare and Practice
Reflecting on Roles and Relationships
1st Edition
Published on 18. January 1993
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-0-8039-8794-4 (ISBN)
Description
Bringing together key issues in the provision and use of caring services, this volume is an invaluable training resource for health and social work practitioners. Roles and relationships are central themes: their complexity is stressed, as is their relevance to a better understanding of practice.
The book's first three sections explore: the distinctions between health and welfare occupations, and informal helping roles; different approaches for practitioners to develop sensitivity to diverse experiences and to challenge unfairly discriminatory responses, attitudes and stereotyped assumptions; and the potential for user empowerment, given the imbalance in power between workers and users. These areas provide practitioners with sources for reflection in the final section.
This unique collection encompasses both personal accounts and important current debates. It blends research with practice, and experience with academic insight. Throughout, readers are encouraged to make links across occupational divides and to challenge traditional assumptions.
The volume is a Course Reader for the Open University course Roles and Relationships: Perspectives on Practice K663.
The book's first three sections explore: the distinctions between health and welfare occupations, and informal helping roles; different approaches for practitioners to develop sensitivity to diverse experiences and to challenge unfairly discriminatory responses, attitudes and stereotyped assumptions; and the potential for user empowerment, given the imbalance in power between workers and users. These areas provide practitioners with sources for reflection in the final section.
This unique collection encompasses both personal accounts and important current debates. It blends research with practice, and experience with academic insight. Throughout, readers are encouraged to make links across occupational divides and to challenge traditional assumptions.
The volume is a Course Reader for the Open University course Roles and Relationships: Perspectives on Practice K663.
Reviews / Votes
`A dazzling variety of articles drawn from almost the entire health and welfare spectrum. The problem is what to read first. Should it be George Orwell's account of death in a Paris hospital in 1929, or GP Tom Heller's memories of the Hillsborough disaster? There is meat for the academically minded alongside telling insights from service users like Anita Binns, a woman with learning disabilities. The emphasis on roles and relationships holds the collection together and frees many of the writers to set aside professional status and use their personal experience to inform the search for better practice. If only the book was likely to be read by all the professional know-it-alls who think they are above their clients' - Health Service Journal`many nuggets worth mining, and it is a valuable teaching resource.' - Medical Sociology News
`useful because it collects together disparate material in one place ... This book represents the resurgence of role analysis in social work ... One of the assets of the book is its material from both health and social work professions ... this book asserts and demonstrates extremely well and interestingly the value of self-reflection in professional practice' - British Journal of Social Work
`This book has a number of strengths. All of the chapters are brief and well focused ... many of [them] stand as excellent vehicles for stimulating class discussion... I think this book has excellent applicability to the education of students of a variety of health and human service occupations' - Disability Studies Quarterly
`This Open University Reader focuses on reflective practice from a multi-occupational perspective, using roles and relationships as its organising theme. It is written for an audience of trainers, teachers, students and workers to develop practice in health and welfare.... This is a very good reader whose contents provide rich, varied and moving material for health and welfare professionals' - Disability and Society
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
593 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8039-8794-4 (9780803987944)
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Jan Walmsley | Jill Reynolds | Pam Shakespeare
Health, Welfare and Practice
Reflecting on Roles and Relationships
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12/1992
1st Edition
SAGE Publications Inc
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Persons
Ray Woolfe is a Counselling Psychologist in private practice.
Content
Introduction
Roles and Relationships in Health and Welfare
PART ONE: EXPERIENCE AND EXPERTISE
What is a Profession? Experience versus Expertise - Jan Williams
Reflection-in-Action - Donald Sch[um]on
License and Mandate - Everett C Hughes
It's Not What You Do but Who You Are - Jan Walmsley
Caring Roles and Caring Relationships
Professional Ideology or Organizational Tribalism? The Health Service-Social Work Divide - Gillian Dalley
Labour Relations - Jenny Kitzinger, Josephine Green and Vanessa Coupland
Midwives and Doctors on the Labour Ward
Meaningful Distances - Ruth Purtilo
Wounded Healers - Patrick Wakeling
Awakenings
The Face-to-Face Interaction and After the Consultation - Gerry Stimson and Barbara Webb
Pregnancy and Childbirth - Elizabeth Roberts
A Historical Perspective
How the Poor Die - George Orwell
PART TWO: DIVERSITY AND DISCRIMINATION
Feminist Theory and Strategy in Social Work - Jill Reynolds
Towards an Anti-racist Curriculum in Social Work Training - Don Naik
Commonalities and Diversities between Women Clients and Women Social Workers - Jalna Hanmer and Daphne Statham
Violence against Black Women - Amina Mama
Gender, Race and State Responses
Black Nightingales - Yasmin Alibhai
Men - Sara Arber and Nigel Gilbert
The Forgotten Carers
The Alienated - Gladys Elder
Growing Old Today
Making Gardens from Wildernesses - Norma Pitfield
The Lives of Older Women
Acquired Hearing Loss - Maggie Woolley
Acquired Oppression
PART THREE: EMPOWERMENT AND POWER
Issues of Power in Health and Welfare - Roger Gomm
From Curing or Caring to Defining Disabled People - Vic Finkelstein
A Community's Adaptation to Deafness - Nora Ellen Groce
Empowerment and Oppression - David Ward and Audrey Mullender
An Indissoluble Pairing for Contemporary Social Work
New Disability Services - Christopher Brown and Charles Ringma
The Critical Role of Staff in a Consumer-directed Empowerment Model
The Barns Experiment - W David Wills
Resisting the System - Maggie Potts and Rebecca Fido
Anita's Story - Anita Binns
Rules, Roles and Relationships - Sheelagh Strawbridge
PART FOUR: REFLECTING ON PRACTICE
Trauma and Tedium - Barbara Webb
An Account of Living on a Children's Ward
Ritual and Rational Action in Hospitals - Gillian Chapman
A Feeling for Medicine - Naomi Craft
Personal and Medical Memories from Hillsborough - Tom Heller
Conflicts in the Residential Keyworker Role - Graham Connelly
Thinking about Feelings in Group Care - John Simmonds
Reflections on Short-term Casework - Liz Lloyd
Establishing a Feminist Model of Groupwork in the Probation Service - Tara Mistry
When the Solution becomes a Part of the Problem - Robert Bor, Lucy Perry and Riva Miller
Conclusion - Kate Lyon
Why Study Roles and Relationships?
Roles and Relationships in Health and Welfare
PART ONE: EXPERIENCE AND EXPERTISE
What is a Profession? Experience versus Expertise - Jan Williams
Reflection-in-Action - Donald Sch[um]on
License and Mandate - Everett C Hughes
It's Not What You Do but Who You Are - Jan Walmsley
Caring Roles and Caring Relationships
Professional Ideology or Organizational Tribalism? The Health Service-Social Work Divide - Gillian Dalley
Labour Relations - Jenny Kitzinger, Josephine Green and Vanessa Coupland
Midwives and Doctors on the Labour Ward
Meaningful Distances - Ruth Purtilo
Wounded Healers - Patrick Wakeling
Awakenings
The Face-to-Face Interaction and After the Consultation - Gerry Stimson and Barbara Webb
Pregnancy and Childbirth - Elizabeth Roberts
A Historical Perspective
How the Poor Die - George Orwell
PART TWO: DIVERSITY AND DISCRIMINATION
Feminist Theory and Strategy in Social Work - Jill Reynolds
Towards an Anti-racist Curriculum in Social Work Training - Don Naik
Commonalities and Diversities between Women Clients and Women Social Workers - Jalna Hanmer and Daphne Statham
Violence against Black Women - Amina Mama
Gender, Race and State Responses
Black Nightingales - Yasmin Alibhai
Men - Sara Arber and Nigel Gilbert
The Forgotten Carers
The Alienated - Gladys Elder
Growing Old Today
Making Gardens from Wildernesses - Norma Pitfield
The Lives of Older Women
Acquired Hearing Loss - Maggie Woolley
Acquired Oppression
PART THREE: EMPOWERMENT AND POWER
Issues of Power in Health and Welfare - Roger Gomm
From Curing or Caring to Defining Disabled People - Vic Finkelstein
A Community's Adaptation to Deafness - Nora Ellen Groce
Empowerment and Oppression - David Ward and Audrey Mullender
An Indissoluble Pairing for Contemporary Social Work
New Disability Services - Christopher Brown and Charles Ringma
The Critical Role of Staff in a Consumer-directed Empowerment Model
The Barns Experiment - W David Wills
Resisting the System - Maggie Potts and Rebecca Fido
Anita's Story - Anita Binns
Rules, Roles and Relationships - Sheelagh Strawbridge
PART FOUR: REFLECTING ON PRACTICE
Trauma and Tedium - Barbara Webb
An Account of Living on a Children's Ward
Ritual and Rational Action in Hospitals - Gillian Chapman
A Feeling for Medicine - Naomi Craft
Personal and Medical Memories from Hillsborough - Tom Heller
Conflicts in the Residential Keyworker Role - Graham Connelly
Thinking about Feelings in Group Care - John Simmonds
Reflections on Short-term Casework - Liz Lloyd
Establishing a Feminist Model of Groupwork in the Probation Service - Tara Mistry
When the Solution becomes a Part of the Problem - Robert Bor, Lucy Perry and Riva Miller
Conclusion - Kate Lyon
Why Study Roles and Relationships?