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The enlightened social worker: an introduction to rights-focused practice
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Policy Press
Publication Date
2024.
Language
English
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Front Cover
The Enlightened Social Worker: An Introduction to Rights-Focused Practice
Copyright information
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of figures, tables and boxes
Acknowledgements
Part I Rights and social work
1 Social work: tensions, conflicts and rights
Social work and conflict
Content of the book
2 The Enlightenment, social work and progress
What was the Enlightenment?
Criticisms of the Enlightenment
Enlightenment ideals, oppression and resistance
The birth of rights: individual freedom and negative rights
The first generation of rights: negative freedom and liberty
The second generation of rights: positive freedom, needs and equality
Criticisms of individualised rights and the development of the third generation of rights
A response to these criticisms: social work and third-generation rights
Towards rights-focused social work
3 On rights and social work
A case study of rights-focused practice
Rights and the case study
Social work and human rights
Rights in social work practice
4 Liberty, helping and protection
Rights and capacity issues
On rights and helping
The Mancini family
The ladder of consequences and parental change
So how can we work around change in protection? The ethics of social work
How should we work with the ladder of consequences?
Why do social workers talk to people like this?
How should social workers talk with people?
Conclusion
5 Social work, positive freedom and need
Social work with children in need: a case study
Social work and social need
Social work, equality, positive rights and social need
Individual and social need
Social work, social needs and rights
The uncomfortable nature of social work
6 Human connection, community and love
The Williams family
What's love got to do with it?
What is love?
Social work and loving relationships
Social workers and love
A kind of loving
Complications in applying a love ethic to rights-focused practice
Love and professional boundaries
What about unloveable people and actions?
Implications of an ethic of love for social work
Part II Theories for rights-focused practice
7 Humanist social work
History of humanist psychology and social work
Abraham Maslow
Carl Rogers
Humanist helping
Values and beliefs
Practices
Evidence
Later developments in humanist helping
Humanism and social work
8 The social model
What is the medical model?
Development of the social model
The development of the social model in relation to disability
The social model and child and family social work
Limitations of the social model
The social model, rights and social work
Rights, humanist approaches and the social model
Part III Rights-focused practice
9 Assessment as theory development
What is assessment?
Challenges for assessment
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9781447367659
9781447367666
9781447367666
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