
Social Care Practice in Context
- 240 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Social Care Practice in Context
About this book
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 agencies With 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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Figures
- Research boxes
- Tables
- Introduction
- 1. What is social care practice?
- 2. Valuing users and carers
- 3. The state and the individual
- 4. Engaging and assessing in social care
- 5. Partnership with agencies and colleagues
- 6. Personal and social intervention
- 7. Endings, monitoring and evaluation
- 8. The future of social care
- Abbreviations
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index