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Health, Welfare and Practice

Reflecting on Roles and Relationships

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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 wit

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Health, Welfare and Practice, Jan Walmsley, Jill Reynolds, Pam Shakespeare, Ray Woolfe

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Pubblicato
1992
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Titolo
Health, Welfare and Practice
Sottotitolo
Reflecting on Roles and Relationships
Lingua
Inglese
Pubblicato
1992
Formato
In brossura
Pagine
256
ISBN10
0803987951
ISBN13
9780803987951
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Descrizione
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 wit