Love, Hate and Welfare: Psychosocial Approaches to Policy and Practice

ISBN-13: 9781861343437 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 216 str.

Lynn Froggett

Opis

This book presents a psychosocial examination of the changing relationships between users of services, professionals and managers in the post-war welfare state. It: develops practice-based perspectives on changing social relations of care;discusses the psychic dimensions of entitlement, risk, responsibility, compassion and dependency in the welfare system;develops a grid to link the interpersonal, institutional and sociopolitical dimensions of successive post-war welfare settlements;explores the potential contribution of psychoanalytic concepts to social policy and practice. . vbTab] vbTab]This book is aimed at all those who have an interest in the development of responsive welfare institutions, including policy makers, professionals and academics."