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Social Welfare and Social Value: The Role of Caring Professions
Richard Hugman
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Description for Social Welfare and Social Value: The Role of Caring Professions
Paperback. Changes in ideas about welfare have required caring professions to adapt their practices in ways which challenge their underlying values and their relationships with service users. Focusing on nursing, remedial therapy and social work, this book examines core social values expressed through policy. Editor(s): Campling, Jo. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JKSN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 435.
Changes in ideas about social welfare have required caring professions to adapt their practices in ways which have challenged their underlying values and their relationships with service users. Focusing on nursing, remedial therapy and social work, this book examines core social values expressed through policy. The implications of these ideas for the caring professions in social welfare are explored, as are important questions about the use of industrial and commercial metaphors in health and human services.
Changes in ideas about social welfare have required caring professions to adapt their practices in ways which have challenged their underlying values and their relationships with service users. Focusing on nursing, remedial therapy and social work, this book examines core social values expressed through policy. The implications of these ideas for the caring professions in social welfare are explored, as are important questions about the use of industrial and commercial metaphors in health and human services.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Macmillan Press
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
246
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333645741
SKU
V9780333645741
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Ref
99-1
About Richard Hugman
Originally a social work practitioner, RICHARD HUGMAN has for many years worked in universities in Britain and Australia. Currently, he is Professor of Social Work at Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia.
Reviews for Social Welfare and Social Value: The Role of Caring Professions
'This book is an excellent exploration of how developing social care policy and practice relate to social values. In particular, it examines the basis for professional values, principles and morals for social work, nursing and the remedial therapies.' - Kish Bhatti-Sinclair, British Journal of Social Work '...an engaging and thought-provoking book that raises issues of great contemporary relevance...' - Robert ... Read more