Social Welfare and Social Value: The Role of Caring Professions

ISBN-13: 9780333645741 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 246 str.

Richard Hugman;Jo Campling

Opis

Changes in ideas about social welfare have required caring professions to adapt their practices in ways which have challenged their underlying values and their relationships with service users. Focusing on nursing, remedial therapy and social work, this book examines core social values expressed through policy. The implications of these ideas for the caring professions in social welfare are explored, as are important questions about the use of industrial and commercial metaphors in health and human services.

Spis treści

PART ONE: THE VALUES OF SOCIAL WELFARE Values in Policy and Practice.- Values Revisited: Need, Responsibility and Citizenship.- The Role of Professional Values.- PART TWO: THE COMMODIFICATION OF SOCIAL WELFARE Producing Social Welfare.- Professionals as Producers.- Service Users as Consumers.- PART THREE: THE PROFESSIONS IN SOCIAL WELFARE Reshaping Relations in Social Welfare.- The Future for Professionalism.- Bibliography.- Index.

O autorze

Originally a social work practitioner, RICHARD HUGMAN has for many years worked in universities in Britain and Australia. Currently, he is Professor of Social Work at Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia.