- 288 pages
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About this book
This collection provides new insights about current welfare professions in a number of European countries. Focusing on research representing different types of European welfare states, including the Scandinavian and the Continental, the book offers in-depth understandings of professionals' everyday work within different contextual conditions, explored from empirical and theoretical perspectives. Subjects covered include knowledge and identity, education and professional development, regulation, accountability, collaboration, assessment and decision making. This is a valuable contribution to the discussion of professionalism and welfare professions, offering lessons learned and ways forward.
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Yes, you can access Social and Caring Professions in European Welfare States by Blom, Björn,Evertsson, Lars in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Scienze sociali & Prestazione di assistenza sanitaria. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- SOCIAL AND CARING PROFESSIONS IN EUROPEAN WELFARE STATES
- Contents
- List of tables and figures
- Notes on contributors
- Preface
- 1. European social and caring professions in transition
- Part 1. Knowledge, reflection and identity in the social and caring welfare professions
- 2. The impact of education on professional identity
- 3. The construction of professional identity in social work: experience, analytical reflection and time
- 4. Professional supervision and professional autonomy
- Part 2. Control, regulation and management
- 5. Reconfiguring professional autonomy? The case of social work in the UK
- 6. Auditing and accountability
- 7. State regulation of the social work profession: an example from Poland
- Part 3. Collaboration, conflict and competition
- 8. Professional boundary crossing and interprofessional knowledge development
- nine
- 9. The formation of a profession: the case of physiotherapy in Norway
- 11. Professional dilemmas of defining a problem: the case of addiction treatment
- 12. Challenges of municipal community work
- Part 4. Assessment, negotiation and decision making
- 13. On the unnoticed aspects of professional practice
- 14. Can complexity in welfare professionals’ work be handled with standardised professional knowledge?
- 15. Who is viewed as client by social workers and general practitioners?
- 16. Activation work as professional practice: complexities and professional boundaries at the street level of employment policy implementation
- 17. Social and caring professions in European welfare states: trends and challenges
- Index