Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1177/14680173221144418
Jill Chonody
emphasizes the importance of social work knowledge, skills, and values for people with dementia and paints, for the reader, a clear picture of the circumstances, and challenges, social workers routinely face. He foregrounds the role of effective communication and relationship building, assessment and risk management, and working with carers and families. This is an especially helpful emphasis in a local authority context that prioritizes process-related activities such as “arranging admission to a care home” or “organizing a day service.” Given the increase in the number of people living with dementia and the fact that more people will need the services of a social worker, there is an urgent need to invest in effective social work in this field. The author makes a strong case for this identifying the pivotal role that skilled, thoughtful, engaged social work can make to improving the care, quality of life, and well-being of people with dementia and their carers. That social work with adults, particularly older people, has been under threat since the 1990s (care management plus austerity) amplifies the importance of taking full account of Scourfield’s excellent book. If we do not maintain, nurture, and develop the social work skills and knowledge that he articulates, we are knowingly undermining the quality of dementia care. As with all books, there are one or two issues that would have been useful to include. That the population who rely on publicly funded social care and see a social worker—as opposed to paying for their own care—have particular features, is one such issue. This group tends to be poorer, have fewer resources, and have more serious health conditions, in this case advanced dementia. I also wondered if there was room to have two chapters on social work with people with dementia and their carers, including more discussion on evidence about the value of social work.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-20DOI: 10.1177/14680173221140452
T. Shute
{"title":"Book Review: The anti-racist social worker by Tanya Moore and Glory Simango","authors":"T. Shute","doi":"10.1177/14680173221140452","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14680173221140452","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47142,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Work","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45296810","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-11-16DOI: 10.1177/14680173221140455
William R. Frey
{"title":"Book Review: Disrupting whiteness in social work by Sonia Tascón and Jim Ife","authors":"William R. Frey","doi":"10.1177/14680173221140455","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14680173221140455","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47142,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Work","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48343203","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-11-15DOI: 10.1177/14680173221140456
Rosanna Ware
{"title":"Book Review: An A-Z of social work skills by Michaela Rogers and Dan Allen","authors":"Rosanna Ware","doi":"10.1177/14680173221140456","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14680173221140456","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47142,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Work","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48834443","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-11-15DOI: 10.1177/14680173221140453
Natalia Phillips
This book is a compendium of knowledge about active multicultural social work in diverse communities in North America. The authors offer a rigorous introduction to qualitative, experimental
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Pub Date : 2022-11-15DOI: 10.1177/14680173221140454
Heidi Brocius
the reader to re fl ect on the role of researchers as advocates for communities and as ambassadors for social work practice
{"title":"Book Review: Non-Profit program evaluation made simple: Get your data, show your impact and improve your programs by Chari Smith","authors":"Heidi Brocius","doi":"10.1177/14680173221140454","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14680173221140454","url":null,"abstract":"the reader to re fl ect on the role of researchers as advocates for communities and as ambassadors for social work practice","PeriodicalId":47142,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Work","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47058234","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-11-15DOI: 10.1177/14680173221140457
Cynthia H. Nover
{"title":"Book Review: The end of social work: A defense of the social worker in times of transformatin by Steve Burghardt","authors":"Cynthia H. Nover","doi":"10.1177/14680173221140457","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14680173221140457","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47142,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Work","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43958133","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-11-15DOI: 10.1177/14680173221140451
Philip Heslop
{"title":"Book Review: An A-Z of Social Work Theory by Malcom Payne","authors":"Philip Heslop","doi":"10.1177/14680173221140451","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14680173221140451","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47142,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Work","volume":"23 1","pages":"1000 - 1001"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45796683","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-10-30DOI: 10.1177/14680173221125539
I. Martín
example, those related to sexual identity and skin colour, have not received as much attention as the author would have wished. The compromise between concision and comprehensiveness is also visible in the middle chapters, which examine the specific risks associated with poverty and inequality, abuse and transition into later life. On the whole though, the author does an outstanding job of summarising complex issues and theories without oversimplification. A good example is chapter nine, which looks at the ways in which dementia has been conceptualised. Starting with biomedical models and the mould-breaking work of the Bradford Dementia Group (Kitwood, 1997), the reader gets a breakneck tour through the most important theories and models of the subsequent 20 years, ending with a short discussion of issues for policy and a summary of the main conclusions. All in a little over 30 pages. This points to another great strength. Despite her status as a leading gerontologist, Milne has avoided the temptation to give lectures or slip into polemic. Her own views have been kept on a short leash for the first nine chapters, so when they do finally emerge, they carry the full force of the theory and evidence that stands behind them. While there are powerful concluding messages, the book ends with ingredients and a direction of travel rather than a specific recipe or route, leaving the reader to decide how to carry the ideas forward. My personal copy is already dog-eared and sits at the end of the shelf for social work and older adults. I think it will be a long time before it gets pushed from prime position.
{"title":"Book Review: A new history of social work: Values and practice in the struggle for social justice by John H. Pierson","authors":"I. Martín","doi":"10.1177/14680173221125539","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14680173221125539","url":null,"abstract":"example, those related to sexual identity and skin colour, have not received as much attention as the author would have wished. The compromise between concision and comprehensiveness is also visible in the middle chapters, which examine the specific risks associated with poverty and inequality, abuse and transition into later life. On the whole though, the author does an outstanding job of summarising complex issues and theories without oversimplification. A good example is chapter nine, which looks at the ways in which dementia has been conceptualised. Starting with biomedical models and the mould-breaking work of the Bradford Dementia Group (Kitwood, 1997), the reader gets a breakneck tour through the most important theories and models of the subsequent 20 years, ending with a short discussion of issues for policy and a summary of the main conclusions. All in a little over 30 pages. This points to another great strength. Despite her status as a leading gerontologist, Milne has avoided the temptation to give lectures or slip into polemic. Her own views have been kept on a short leash for the first nine chapters, so when they do finally emerge, they carry the full force of the theory and evidence that stands behind them. While there are powerful concluding messages, the book ends with ingredients and a direction of travel rather than a specific recipe or route, leaving the reader to decide how to carry the ideas forward. My personal copy is already dog-eared and sits at the end of the shelf for social work and older adults. I think it will be a long time before it gets pushed from prime position.","PeriodicalId":47142,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Work","volume":"23 1","pages":"609 - 611"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41746031","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-10-18DOI: 10.1177/14680173221132984
Jon Hyslop
{"title":"Book Review: Mental health in later life: Taking a life course approach by Alisoun Milne","authors":"Jon Hyslop","doi":"10.1177/14680173221132984","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14680173221132984","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47142,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Work","volume":"23 1","pages":"608 - 609"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48317506","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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