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Author Barnard, Adam

Title The Value Base of Social Work and Social Care : an Active Learning Handbook
Published Maidenhead : McGraw-Hill International (UK) Ltd., 2008

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Description 1 online resource (201 pages)
Contents Front cover; Half title page; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; The contributors; The editors; Foreword; Introduction; Chapter 1: Values, ethics and professionalization: A social work history; Chapter 2: The social work value base: Human rights and social justice in talk and action; Chapter 3: Globalization defined; Chapter 4: An anti-racist strategy for individual and organizational change; Chapter 5: Social work and social value: well-being, choice and public service reform; Chapter 6: Service user values for social work and social care
Chapter 7: Community intervention and social activisamChapter 8: Anti-oppressive practices as contested practive; Chapter 9: Engaging men: Strategies and dilemmas in violence prevention education among men; Chapter 10: Social work and management; Chapter 11: Anti-social care: Occupational depriation and older people in residential care; Index; Back cover
Summary Explores the concepts and themes that help us understand the value base in social work. This book examines the tensions between values such as justice, anti-discrimination, compassion, and empathy, and the need for professionalism, accountability, cost codes, and performance measurement
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Subject Human services -- Congresses
Human services -- Professional ethics -- Congresses
Values -- Congresses
Human services
Values
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Horner, Nigel
Wild, Jim
ISBN 9780335236695
0335236693