Social Media and Social Work

Implications and Opportunities for Practice

Megele, Claudia, Buzzi, Peter, Claudia Megele, Peter Buzzi

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9781447327394
• eBook ISBN: 9781447327417
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Social Work
• Index: Social Sciences

The COVID-19 pandemic has shed fresh light on the ways that social media and digital technologies can be effectively harnessed to support relationship-based social work practice. However, it has also highlighted the complex risks, ethics and practical challenges that such technologies pose.

This book helps practitioners and students navigate this complex terrain and explore and build upon its multiple opportunities. It uses real-life examples to examine how practitioners can assess the impact of new technologies on their professional conduct and use them in a way that enhance public confidence and relationship-based practice.

The authors explore how digital technologies can support multiple areas of service including social work with children, families and adults, mental health social work, youth justice and working with online communities. They also consider regulatory questions and provide a roadmap for good practice.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of figures and tables
• A note from the editors to the reader
• Notes on contributors
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Digital professionalism and social media ethics
• 3. Social media and social work with children and young people and looked after children
• 4. Social media and adult social work
• 5. Social media and mental health social work
• 6. Social media and youth justice: challenges and possibilities for practice
• 7. Social media and ‘communities of practice’ and ‘communities of interest’
• 8. Social media and social work regulation
• 9. Future technology and social work and social care practice and education