Ends and Means in Social Work

ISBN-13: 9781032051840 / Miękka / 2023 / 162 str.

R. William Warburton

Opis

Originally published in 1979, this title was the first book to provide research-based evidence on what social workers actually do, what they were aiming to achieve, and what sense their activities made, both in terms of their own subjective perspectives and those of their clients.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements.  Introduction  1. Social Work in the 1970s – the Need for Accountability  2. The Vastness and Vagueness of the Social Work Task  3. Social Worker and Consumer Perspectives  4. The Development of the Case Review System  5. The Exercise of Feedback  6. ‘Needs’ and Demands on Social Services in the Area Brendan McGuinness. E. Matilda Goldberg and R. William Warburton  7. A Year’s Intake to an Area Office  8. Short-Term Social Work in an Intake Team  9. The Long-Term Teams and Their Clients  10. Long-Term Social Work with the Elderly and Disabled  11. Long-Term Social Work with Child and Family Problems  12. Environmental Problems  13. Problems of Mental and Emotional Disorder  14. The Social Worker’s Evaluation of the Case Review System  15. Conclusions and Reflections.  References.  Appendix 1: Case Review System.  Appendix 2: How the System Works.  Index.

O autorze

E. Matilda Goldberg, R. William Warburton