Social Work Practice with Lesbians and Gay Men: Working with Children and Families

2012 ◽  
pp. 132-155
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Gay Men ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Children And Families

scholarly journals Social work with offenders

Social Work ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 173-190
Author(s):  
Terry Bamford
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Child Care ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Children And Families ◽  
Monitoring And Surveillance ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Preparatory Work

It is often assumed that child care legislation is a response to scandals and inquiries from the 1948 Children Act to the Children Act 2004. This chapter looks in detail at the preparatory work preceding legislation and demonstrates that the impact of scandals has been greater on securing parliamentary time than it has in shaping legislation. The impact has been greatest on social work practice. Attention and activity have been skewed away from direct work to provide assistance and help towards risk assessment and risk management. There has been a consequent emphasis on the monitoring and surveillance of families and individuals. This shift is true in mental health as well as child care. It is timely to consider whether this shift in practice has made children and families safer.

Gay Men: Practice Interventions

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert L. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Gay Men ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
The Social

This chapter explores salient concepts of social work practice with gay men. These concepts are described within a life cycle context. The illuminated concepts have been identified based on the biopsychosocial and spiritual developments in the social work literature related to this population since the printing of the 19th edition of the Encyclopedia of Social Work.

scholarly journals Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder: A disability in need of social work education, knowledge and practice

2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 20-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorothy Badry ◽  
Peter Choate
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Spectrum Disorder ◽  
Children And Families ◽  
Fetal Alcohol ◽  
Social Work Theory ◽  
Broad Array ◽  
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum

Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) is a non-diagnostic umbrella term that describes a range of effects that can occur as a result of a mother consuming alcohol during pregnancy (SAMSHA, 2014). Awareness of the need for professionals to become educated on FASD has emerged as a critical topic in the field of social work and child welfare practice specifically. The social work practice response to children and families, in order to be effective, must develop and emerge from an FASD Informed Practice lens – which implies particular knowledge and competencies in practice. This article will highlight the need to recognize FASD as a disabling condition and identify why training and knowledge is essential in order to work effectively with children and families. Further, an educational pathway to FASD informed practice in relation to a broad array of interventions and enabling/supportive approaches relevant to social work theory will be identified. The focus of this paper is to identifying why knowledge and education on FASD is important to social work practice.

Family Group Conferences in Social Work

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Current Practice ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Family Group ◽  
Children And Families ◽  
Single Text ◽  
Effective Service

Family group conferences (FGCs) are a strengths based approach to social work practice, empowering families to take responsibility for decision-making. It is a cost-effective service, which is currently used by the majority of local authorities. This book discusses the origins and theoretical underpinnings of family-led decision-making and brings together the current research on the efficacy and limitations of FGCs into a single text. The book also covers topics such as the use of FGCs in different areas of children and families social work, uses case studies to illustrate current practice, and explores whether FGCs should become a mainstream function of children and families social work.

Pride and shame in the creation of child and family social work

2019 ◽  
pp. 49-76
Author(s):  
Matthew Gibson
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Professional Practice ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Children And Families ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Social Policing ◽  
Conflicting Messages

This chapter considers the role of pride and shame in creating, maintaining and disrupting practices that have resulted in child and family social work. As people sought to develop ways of addressing social issues related to children and families, different discourses on children, families and social issues provided competing and conflicting messages about what was praiseworthy and shameful behaviour. Different representations of social work practice can, therefore, be seen to have been constructed within these competing discourses. This chapter outlines these representations as social administration, social policing, activism, therapy and practical help, demonstrating how pride and shame were central components in how these practices were institutionalised. This chapter then analyses how a discourse of neoliberalism has sought to change the boundaries for praiseworthy and shameful behaviour to reconfigure professional practice.

Poverty, inequality and contemporary social work

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Cummins
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Children And Families ◽  
Mental Health Practice ◽  
Poverty And Inequality ◽  
Asylum Seekers And Refugees

This chapter examines contemporary social work practice in an era when poverty and inequality have become more deeply entrenched. It first considers the broader current position of social work as it relates to poverty and inequality, which are fundamental issues of social justice and human rights, before discussing R. Lister's taxonomy of the potential ways in which individuals and families respond to living in poverty: ‘getting by’, ‘getting (back) at’, ‘getting out’ and ‘getting organised’. This taxonomy of agency can also be used as the basis for the positioning of anti-poverty social work. The chapter also explores social work approaches to issues of poverty and inequality, as well as the areas of children and families' social work, mental health practice and work with asylum-seekers and refugees as a means of analysing the complex relationship between poverty, social work and social justice.

scholarly journals From Snapshots of Practice to a Movie: Researching Long-Term Social Work and Child Protection by Getting as Close as Possible to Practice and Organisational Life

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (6) ◽  
pp. 1706-1723
Author(s):  
Harry Ferguson ◽  
Jadwiga Leigh ◽  
Tarsem Singh Cooner ◽  
Liz Beddoe ◽  
Tom Disney ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Work Teams ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Service Users ◽  
Children And Families ◽  
Longitudinal Approach ◽  
Staff Supervision

Abstract Research into social work and child protection has begun to observe practice to find out what social workers actually do, however, no such ethnographic research has been done into long-term practice. This article outlines and analyses the methods used in a study of long-term social work and child protection practice. Researchers spent fifteen months embedded in two social work departments observing organisational practices, culture and staff supervision. We also regularly observed social worker’s encounters with children and families in a sample of thirty cases for up to a year, doing up to twenty-one observations of practice in the same cases. Family members were also interviewed up to 3 times during that time. This article argues that a methodology that gets as close as possible to practitioners and managers as they are doing the work and that takes a longitudinal approach can provide deep insights into what social work practice is, how helpful relationships with service users are established and sustained over time, or not, and the influence of organisations. The challenges and ethical dilemmas involved in doing long-term research that gets so close to social work teams, casework and service users for up to a year are considered.

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