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The Routledge Handbook of Social Work Practice Research
The Routledge Handbook of Social Work Practice Research is the first international handbook to focus on practice research for social work. Bringing together leading scholars in the field from Europe, the USA and the Asia Pacific region, it provides an up-to-the minute overview of the latest thinking in practice research whilst also providing practical advice on how to undertake practice research in the field.
It is divided into five sections:
State of the art
Methodologies
Pedagogies
Applications
Expanding the frontiers
The range of topics discussed will enhance student development as well as increase the capacity of practitioners to conduct research; develop coordinating and leadership roles; and liaise with multiple stakeholders who will strengthen the context base for practice research.
As such, this handbook will be essential reading for all social work students, practitioners and academics as well as those working in other health and social care settings.
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The Routledge Handbook of Service User Involvement in Human Services Research and Education
Worldwide, there has been a growth in service user involvement in education and research in recent years. This handbook is the first book which identifies what is happening in different regions of the world to provide different countries and client groups with the opportunity to learn from each other.
The book is divided into five sections: Section One examines service user involvement in context exploring theoretical issues which underpin service user involvement. In Section Two we focus on the state of service user involvement in human services education and research across the globe including examples of innovative practice, but also identifying examples of where it is not happening and why. Section Three offers more detailed examination of such involvement in a wide range of professional education learning settings. Section Four focuses on the involvement of service users in research involving a wide range of service user groups and situations. Lastly, Section Five explores future challenges for education and research to ensure involvement remains meaningful.
The book includes forty-eight chapters, including seventeen case-studies, from all regions of the world, this is the first book to both highlight the subject’s methodological and theoretical issues and give practical examples in education and research for those wishing to engage in this field.
It will be of interest to all service users, scholars and students of social work, nursing, occupational therapy, and other human service subjects.
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On the Edge of a New Frontier: Is Gerontological Social Work in the UK Ready to Meet Twenty-First-Century Challenges?
This article explores the readiness of gerontological social work in the UK for meeting the challenges of an ageing society by investigating the focus on work with older people in social work education and the scope of gerontological social work research. The discussion draws on findings from two exploratory studies: a survey of qualifying master's programmes in England and a survey of the content relating to older people over a six-year period in four leading UK social work journals. The evidence from master's programmes suggests widespread neglect of ageing in teaching content and practice learning. Social work journals present a more nuanced picture. Older people emerge within coverage of generic policy issues for adults, such as personalisation and safeguarding, and there is good evidence of the complexity of need in late life. However, there is little attention to effective social work interventions, with an increasingly diverse older population, or to the quality of gerontological social work education. The case is made for infusing content on older people throughout the social work curriculum, for extending practice learning opportunities in social work with older people and for increasing the volume and reporting of gerontological social work research.
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Critical perspectives on user involvement
This topical reader provides a critical stock take of the state of user involvement and will be an important resource for students studying health and social care and social work researchers and user activists.
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Researching Racism: The Colour of Face Value, Challenges and Opportunities
Researchers and practitioners in social work value qualitative research for the opportunity to engage with issues of social justice including relations of power, and attention to the political, historical and social relations of difference. Interview narratives are all too often accepted at face value as authentic, true voice, representing experience without analysis of what is being represented politically. An analysis of the relations and operations of power provides additional contextual insight to face-value analyses with further opportunities for understanding and social change. When left uninterrogated, face-value analyses are permeable to the reproduction of knowledge without critical analyses of race, ability, sexual orientation or gender and can perpetuate modernist ideas that knowledge is observable and transparent and (re)institutes Western/Eurocentric knowledge as dominant/superior. This paper explores critical reflections on our research and provides a discussion of some of the opportunities identified from our research experiences. Through a discussion of the representation of voice as a production in progress; an attention to analyses for historical, social and political positioning; and a critique of face-value analyses, a conceptual framework is offered that may assist researchers to resist reliance on or accepting of analyses as transparent that eludes an analysis of racism and other forms of discrimination.
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What works for whom? : a critical review of treatments for children and adolescents
\"The standard reference in the field, this acclaimed work synthesizes findings from hundreds of carefully selected studies of mental health treatments for children and adolescents. Chapters on frequently encountered clinical problems systematically review the available data, identify gaps in what is known, and spell out recommendations for evidence-based practice. The authors draw on extensive clinical experience as well as research expertise. Showcasing the most effective psychosocial and pharmacological interventions for young patients, they also address challenges in translating research into real-world clinical practice. New to This Edition *Incorporates over a decade of research advances and evolving models of evidence-based care. *New chapter topic: child maltreatment. *Separate chapters on self-injurious behavior, eating disorders, and substance use disorders (previously covered in a single chapter on self-harming disorders). *Expanded chapters on depression, anxiety, and conduct disorder. *Includes reviews of the expanding range of manualized psychosocial \"treatment packages\" for children.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The social work Reconceptualisation Movement in Latin America and the renewal in Brazil: the protagonist role of the Latin American Social Work Centre
This article is part of the research ‘The Social Work Reconceptualization Movement in Latin America: Historical Determinants, International Interlocutions and Memory’. It portrays the 1960s’ socio-political framework in Latin America, as well as the cultural, ideo-political and socio-economic processes that have deeply affected global societies. In this context, it situates the contribution of the Latin American Social Work Centre to the Reconceptualisation Movement of social work in Latin America, when breaking with traditional social work, and the so-called ‘turnaround’ of Brazilian social work, responsible for profound transformations in academic and professional development and education, professional activity, and organisation, through the political articulation of several professional entities.
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