The enlightened social worker: an introduction to rights-focused practice

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