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The Social Work Pocket Guide to Power and
Empowerment.
The Social Work Pocket Guide to Power and
Empowerment takes a practical approach to empowerment, exploring the key
components of the concept. It provides practical examples of how empowerment can be put into
practice, despite the current challenges.
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details.
The Social Work Pocket Guide to Theory Informed
Practice.
The Social Work Pocket Guide to
Theory Informed Practice explores what
constitutes theory and why theory informed practice is so vital for the future of the social
work profession
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The Social Work Pocket Guide to
Personalisation.
This Social Work Pocket Guide explores the
development of policy and practice in the era of personalisation. It provides a
range of practical suggestions for the development of social work practice.
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Recent Articles:
Cultural Competence in Social Care and
Health
What is "cultural
competence"?
Culture is an aspect of identity, which we all
have. Culture is based on a number of things shared with others such as language, shared history,
beliefs, attitudes, celebrations, musical taste, dress, diet and many others. Culture is basically
about a shared understanding with others of the same culture. Cultures are neither inferior or
superior – they are just different.
In health and social care, there has been a shift
in recent years towards ‘cultural competence’ as a key aspect of all professional practice. The
idea of workers being ‘competent’ in working with others from different cultures is......
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this article.
Professionalising Social Care: The Role of
a Common Knowledge Base
As social care
qualifications make the transition into the Qualification and Credit Framework, generally referred
to as the QCF framework, it is clear that the role of knowledge in effective social care practice
is being increasingly recognised.
A great deal of work is taking place in social
care designed to "professionalise" the work force and the term the "professionalisation agenda" is
now in regular use in the field. This professionalisation of social care is important for a range
of reasons, particularly to ensure that service users are receiving the best possible support
available.
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to read the rest of this article.
Other Recent Articles
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