Social Care Practice in Context

In this clear and insightful book, best selling author Malcolm Payne analyses the major elements of social care practice, explaining how caring and social work skills and values are crucial to effective social care. Through theory, research evidence and skill development, Payne identifies the varying contexts in which social care takes place, the agencies that provide it and the relationships at its heart. The book explains the key practical social care skills:- How to be receptive to users'' and carers'' own understanding of their needs- How to develop continuity in service provision- How to use effective interpersonal engagement with users and carers to ensure a positive future for them in which they have as much control over their care as possible- How to work in partnership with colleagues and other agenciesWith practice and case examples, research boxes, further reading and reflection activities, this book is a stimulating read for social work and community care students and practitioners.>

List of contents

What is Social Care Practice?
Valuing Users and Carers
The State and the Individual
Engaging and Assessing in Social Care
Partnership with Agencies and Colleagues
Personal and Social Intervention
Endings, Monitoring and Evaluation
Development for Service Users, Carers and Practitioners
Social Care Futures.

About the author

MALCOLM PAYNE is Adviser, Policy and Development, at St. Christopher's Hospice, London, UK, where he was previously Director of Psychosocial and Spiritual Care. He is Emeritus Professor at Manchester Metropolitan University and Honorary Professor at Kingston University/St George's University of London. He is the author of many books, including the international best-seller, Modern Social Work Theory.

Product details

• Authors: Lena Dominelli, Malcolm Payne
• Assisted by: Robert Adams (Editor), Dominelli (Editor), Dominelli (Editor), Lena Dominelli (Editor), Malcol Payne (Editor), Malcolm Payne (Editor)
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.10.2008
• EAN: 9780230521810
• ISBN: 978-0-230-52181-0
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Reshaping Social Work; New Directions in Social Work; Reshaping Social Work
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; B, Social Sciences, Social Service, Social Care, Evaluation;service;social work