The Practice of Residential Work

ISBN-13: 9780333668948 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 198 str.

Roger Clough

Opis

This text sets residential life and work in the context of wider social systems, focusing on the function homes serve in looking after young people and adults who would struggle to live elsewhere. Roger Clough highlights what residential workers need to know and do in order that, together with residents, they organise systems and lifestyle to provide the best service. Good residential practice develops from theory and understanding: of people, structures, residential practice, research methods and findings, organisational and management theory, and, critically, ethics and values.

Spis treści

Living in a Residential Home.- The Staff and the Organisations in which they Work.- Direct Care: Task, Theory and Context.- What Residential Workers Need to Know: Theory for Practice.- Using Knowledge in Practice.- An Ethical Base for Practice.- Researching Residential Life.- Managing in a Residential Home.- Organising for Management.

O autorze

ROGER CLOUGH is Professor of Social Work at Lancaster University. He is experienced in social work teaching, specialising in residential work. He has worked as a county councillor, Chair of the Social Services Committee, Chief Inspector of Social Services with Cumbria Social Services and is currently a member of The Residential Forum. His publications include Residential Care, The Abuse of Care and most recently Care in Chaos, with R. Hadley.