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Health, Welfare and Practice: Reflecting on Roles and Relationships

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Description for Health, Welfare and Practice: Reflecting on Roles and Relationships Paperback. Questions distinctions between health/welfare occupations and informal roles; explores approaches to developing sensitivity to diverse experiences and challenge discriminatory responses, attitudes and stereotypes; and examines potential for user empowerment. Editor(s): Walmsley, Jan; Reynolds, Jill; Shakespeare, Pam; Woolfe, Ray. Series: Published in Association with the Open University. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JKSN; MBN; MBP. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 370. "Includes bibliographical references and index. Commissioning organisation: edited by Jan Walmsley . [et al.]. xiv, 242 p. 24 cm. Associated Names: Walmsley, Jan. Paperback. As new." Keywords: "Business, Finance & Law - Careers - Community Services,Subjects - Business, Finance & Law - Careers - Community Services,Subjects - Health, Family & Lifestyle - Medical"
Bringing together key issues in the provision and use of caring services, this volume is an invaluable training resource for health and social work practitioners. Roles and relationships are central themes: their complexity is stressed, as is their relevance to a better understanding of practice.

The book′s first three sections explore: the distinctions between health and welfare occupations, and informal helping roles; different approaches for practitioners to develop sensitivity to diverse experiences and to challenge unfairly discriminatory responses, attitudes and stereotyped assumptions; and the potential for user empowerment, given the imbalance in power between workers and users. These areas ... Read more

This unique collection encompasses both personal accounts and important current debates. It blends research with practice, and experience with academic insight. Throughout, readers are encouraged to make links across occupational divides and to challenge traditional assumptions.

The volume is a Course Reader for the Open University course Roles and Relationships: Perspectives on Practice K663.

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Product Details

Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Sage Publications Ltd
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Series
Published in Association with the Open University
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780803987951
SKU
KEX0161871
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99-1

About Jan Etc. Walmsley
Ray Woolfe is a Counselling Psychologist in private practice. 

Reviews for Health, Welfare and Practice: Reflecting on Roles and Relationships
`A dazzling variety of articles drawn from almost the entire health and welfare spectrum. The problem is what to read first. Should it be George Orwell′s account of death in a Paris hospital in 1929, or GP Tom Heller′s memories of the Hillsborough disaster? There is meat for the academically minded alongside telling insights from service users like Anita Binns, ... Read more

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