Best Practice with Older People

Social Work Stories

By: Karen Jones, Susanna Watson

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Paperback | 30 August 2013 | Edition Number 1

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220 Pages

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Social workers often have to handle a great deal of negativity in their working lives. This book celebrates social work practice at its most positive and influential and, in doing so, contributes to a growing literature on critical best practice.

Focused on 12 unique and compelling stories of social work with older people, the authors:

* provide a fresh and realistic insight into life as a social worker, and the dilemmas and difficulties that practitioners typically face

* illustrate how knowledge, theory and research are integrated in professional decision-making and action

* show social workers analyzing their own cases and include reflective questions to help readers formulate their own learning and thereby develop their own practice

This book provides students on qualifying courses with an invaluable perspective on real life practice, and gives qualified practitioners the opportunity to reflect on and better their own practice.

Industry Reviews

'This book makes an excellent case for social work with older people. By highlighting real practice examples, it brings to life the contribution of social workers to the lives of older men and women who use personal social services. I will confidently recommend this book to students and believe that it will become a valuable addition to the literature on social work with older people'. - Dr Mo Ray, Senior Lecturer, Keele University, UK 'Social work with older people is under threat from government doubts about social work, the priority given to work with children and uncertainty about what can be achieved by working with older people. This book is thus hugely important in terms of how it illustrates how social work can be of huge benefit to older people as well as rewarding for the social worker. It should be a 'must read' on all social work courses'. - Professor Robin means, University of the West of England, UK

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