Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/02650533.2022.2128312
Victoria J. Grimwood
ABSTRACT In this article, I foreground the perspectives of a small group of social workers involved in the iterative process of putting personalisation into practice from within local authority adult social care settings. I set out my approach, which invokes a practice standpoint definition of personalisation, drawn from a reflective round table discussion. This definition incorporates the emotional labour of the liminal lived experience of working towards putting personalisation into practice, under constrained and evolving conditions. I consider how certain tropes of transformation engender frustration and associated emotional responses, which practitioners and managers need to acknowledge and be able to engage with. I draw on shame studies, and factors considered most relevant to practitioner wellbeing. I conclude that a greater focus on the elements of lived experience of practice may lead to specific insights, likely to remain of relevance as the future of social care continues to be mapped.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/02650533.2022.2119949
J. Burton
ABSTRACT In this paper I argue that ‘personalisation’ is a rebranding policy that has had three effects: to disguise deep structural faults in the organisation, funding and practice of social care; to deceive the population into assuming (until they come to need it) that personalised social care exists, and to systematically undermine and destroy what remains of truly personal, relationship based care in communities. I give numerous examples of the ways in which care homes have been corrupted throughout the relentless privatisation, commercialisation and regulation of the last thirty years; I tell of my own experience of social care since the 1960s, and I give three accounts of people I know who have been able to find real and very personal care still surviving in their neighbourhoods.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.1080/02650533.2022.2115472
D. Moss
ABSTRACT The Pathways Model is an approach guiding the individual to combine self-care, habit change, and positive lifestyle changes, with professional healthcare interventions. There are multiple roles that a social work professional can adopt in guiding the individual in a Pathways recovery plan, including a coaching role, assessment, health education, lifestyle guidance, skills training, counselling, diversity specialist, and integrative care coordination. Spirituality, religious practices, and complementary therapies are important elements in integrative care. The professional social worker with the benefit of social work training is optimally suited to engage in these multiple therapeutic roles. A case narrative of a 49-year-old woman with hypertension and heart disease illustrates how a social worker can utilise various elements of social work practice to facilitate a client’s use of the Pathways Model.
{"title":"The pathways model for integrative care and the social work role: case study","authors":"D. Moss","doi":"10.1080/02650533.2022.2115472","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02650533.2022.2115472","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The Pathways Model is an approach guiding the individual to combine self-care, habit change, and positive lifestyle changes, with professional healthcare interventions. There are multiple roles that a social work professional can adopt in guiding the individual in a Pathways recovery plan, including a coaching role, assessment, health education, lifestyle guidance, skills training, counselling, diversity specialist, and integrative care coordination. Spirituality, religious practices, and complementary therapies are important elements in integrative care. The professional social worker with the benefit of social work training is optimally suited to engage in these multiple therapeutic roles. A case narrative of a 49-year-old woman with hypertension and heart disease illustrates how a social worker can utilise various elements of social work practice to facilitate a client’s use of the Pathways Model.","PeriodicalId":46754,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Work Practice","volume":"37 1","pages":"355 - 374"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49170301","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-08-26DOI: 10.1080/02650533.2022.2115473
F. Akhtar
ABSTRACT In the light of global calls to decolonise the curriculum and the national impact of the Black Lives Matter movement, there is pressure on social work academics to review, deconstruct and decolonise social work curricula. Social work education places strong emphasis on anti-oppressive, relationship-based practice that acknowledges diversity, social and economic injustice. This creates additional complexities and pressures for educators attempting to deconstruct social work curricula. This paper considers the emotional labour that such a task entails, and the usefulness of applying psychoanalytic concepts to understanding this emotional labour. It does this by exploring a critical incident and examining the complexities that educators face in constructing decolonised curricula within a marketised academy. It makes recommendations about the kinds of resources that are needed to support educators, especially Black educators.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-07DOI: 10.1080/02650533.2022.2089639
Joselyn Williams
ABSTRACT In recognition of the importance of relationship and working alliance for effective social work supervision, psycho-social factors serve to influence the relational dynamics, impacting on functions such as case discussions and decisions and practitioner welfare and learning. Attachment theory provides an insightful lens for understanding these pivotal aspects of social work supervision and how supervisors may adapt their approach. This paper synthesises the literature linking attachment theory to supervision in social work and the allied discipline of psychotherapy, which is relevant to this lens. Consideration is given to the implications of the different adult attachment patterns of supervisors and supervisees, for their working alliance, the supervision process and social work practice more generally. Further thought is given to the notion of supervision within organisations as a secure base and the impact this may have for supervision practice and future research.
{"title":"Supervision as a secure base: the role of attachment theory within the emotional and psycho-social landscape of social work supervision","authors":"Joselyn Williams","doi":"10.1080/02650533.2022.2089639","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02650533.2022.2089639","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In recognition of the importance of relationship and working alliance for effective social work supervision, psycho-social factors serve to influence the relational dynamics, impacting on functions such as case discussions and decisions and practitioner welfare and learning. Attachment theory provides an insightful lens for understanding these pivotal aspects of social work supervision and how supervisors may adapt their approach. This paper synthesises the literature linking attachment theory to supervision in social work and the allied discipline of psychotherapy, which is relevant to this lens. Consideration is given to the implications of the different adult attachment patterns of supervisors and supervisees, for their working alliance, the supervision process and social work practice more generally. Further thought is given to the notion of supervision within organisations as a secure base and the impact this may have for supervision practice and future research.","PeriodicalId":46754,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Work Practice","volume":"37 1","pages":"309 - 323"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44925148","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-05-18DOI: 10.1080/02650533.2022.2077710
George Karpetis
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Pub Date : 2022-05-04DOI: 10.1080/02650533.2022.2065252
J. Simpson
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/02650533.2022.2058921
Rebecca Watts
ABSTRACT In 2015, Brighton and Hove Children’s Services embarked on a reorganisation and a new Model of Practice to promote relation ship-based social work. New Lead Practitioner roles were created to work at the interface between front-line social workers and man agers to promote reflection and service development in a range of contexts. A reflective practice group led by an external consultant was established to support the development of the role. This paper will explore the experience of one Lead Practitioner of being part of the reflective practice group and how it enabled her to take up the new role and support change in the wider organisation. It will explore how the role of the facilitator, the techniques utilised and the members of the group created a disorientating, destabilising effect that created a context to dismantle preconceived assumptions of ‘the way things are done here’ and supported change in the wider organisational culture. The author provides examples of how she attempted to create this experience on the ‘outside’ to support a shift from bureaucratic, procedural-dominated practice, to new ways of doing things in front-line social work.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/02650533.2022.2074972
F. Masson, T. Graham
ABSTRACT South Africa is a particularly traumatised country that has been characterised and experienced excessive amounts of violence, discrimination and social division. Against this backdrop, South African social workers have a fundamental role to fulfil through their contributions to the healing of the country as they advocate for social justice, reconciliation and equality. Yet these contributions often come at a cost, working with traumatised clients and communities frequently results in social workers being exposed to emotionally intensive and disturbing experiences of their clients and communities. While there are numerous strategies to employ in order to ameliorate the effects of vicarious trauma, reflective social work practice is essential. This paper explores how reflective practice is a crucial approach to practice for social workers who are working with traumatised populations utilising a case vignette to illustrate this process. The role of social work educators and supervisors in this regard is also highlighted.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/02650533.2022.2066904
G. Ruch, A. Lees
Reflective practice is a well-established, but not uncomplicated or uncontested, feature of 21st Century professional activity. Familiar to practitioners in social work, social care, teaching and health-related professions, reflective practice is widely recognised as ‘a good thing’. What it exactly looks and feels like for those practising it or on the receiving end of it, however, is less well understood. In recent years, the dominance of the socio-political landscape by New Public Management and technical-rational responses to the complex, multi-faceted, affective and emotional circumstances of people’s lives, has reinforced the need for reflective skills and practices. Due to the current socially disturbing circumstances – the war in Ukraine, the global pandemic and the climate crisis – that challenge us existentially, evoke powerful emotional responses and attack our capacity to think, the need for reflective practice is, perhaps, greater than ever. It has become very apparent, as a result of the impact of the pandemic on working practices, for example, how we feel the need to be constantly available to everyone’s every demand has heightened significantly. Our online meetings have meant we now move from one space at 10.59 am to another at 11.00 am, without even taking a pause to breathe. In a similar vein, social workers working from home talk about how they take their phones with them everywhere, even to the toilet, for fear of someone thinking they are not working responsibly. This Special Issue of the Journal of Social Work Practice provides a vital thinking space for the debates and dilemmas surrounding reflective practice to be aired and explored, at both the intellectual and emotional levels. Of particular concern is our commitment to ensuring we publish in ways that reflect the diversity of our world, our discipline and our profession. In her book Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone, Minna Salami respectfully invites us all to engage inclusively and joyfully in reconfiguring our epistemological mindsets. For Salami, this involves a commitment to breaking down entrenched patterns of Europatriarchal thinking, and especially binary perspectives which privilege rational and intellectual understanding over understanding coming from our emotions and our hearts. This is our intention and commitment too. Three of the papers in this issue specifically focus on exploring how diverse cultural perspectives and indigenous knowledge can offer new approaches to reflective practice. Bindi Bennett and her colleagues from Australia outline a practice framework for teaching reflexive practice in social work education using an approach that is inclusive and values diverse perspectives from the Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color (BIPOC) and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender/gender diverse, and queer+ (LGBTQ+) communities. Seeking to engage with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and nonIndigenous people, this culturall
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