Doing Knowing Ethically – Where Social Work Values Meet Critical Realism

Dore, Ian

doi:10.1080/17496535.2019.1598458

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“…SARs describe what is found but rarely penetrate beneath the surface of what has been observed (Dore, 2019) with analytic depth to answer questions "why?" In setting terms of reference and in their quality assurance of reports, SABs should ensure that reviews have analysed what promoted and sustained good practice, where it was found and what human and organisational factors obstructed best practice.…”

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On (not) learning from self-neglect safeguarding adult reviews

Preston‐Shoot

2021

JAP

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to update the core data set of self-neglect safeguarding adult reviews (SARs) and accompanying thematic analysis. It also explores whether lessons are being learned from the findings and recommendations of an increasing number of reviews on self-neglect cases. Design/methodology/approach Further published reviews are added to the core data set, mainly drawn from the websites of safeguarding adults boards (SABs). Thematic analysis is updated using the domains used previously. The domains and the thematic analysis are grounded in the evidence-based model of good practice, reported in this journal previously. Findings Familiar findings emerge from the thematic analysis and reinforce the evidence-base of good practice with individuals who self-neglect and for policies and procedures with which to support those practitioners working with such cases. Multiple exclusion homelessness and alcohol misuse are prominent. Some SABs are having to return to further cases of self-neglect to review, inviting scrutiny of what is (not) being learned from earlier findings and recommendations. Research limitations/implications The national database of reviews commissioned by SABs remains incomplete. The Care Act 2014 does not require publication of reports but only a summary of findings and recommendations in SAB annual reports. National Health Service Digital annual data sets do not enable the identification of reviews by types of abuse and neglect. However, the first national analysis of SARs has found self-neglect to be the most prominent type of abuse and/or neglect reviewed. Drawing together the findings builds on what is known about the components of effective practice, and effective policy and organisational arrangements for practice. Practical implications Answering the question “why” remains a significant challenge for SARs. The findings confirm the relevance of the evidence-base for effective practice but SARs are limited in their analysis of what enables and what obstructs the components of best practice. Greater explicit use of research and other published SARs might assist with answering the “why” question. Greater scrutiny is needed of the impact of the national legal, policy and financial context within which adult safeguarding is situated. Originality/value The paper extends the thematic analysis of available reviews that focus on study with adults who self-neglect, further reinforcing the evidence base for practice. Propositions are explored, concerned with whether learning is being maximised from the process of case review.

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“…Recommendations for change accept current organisational structures as fixed and unchallengeable (Weiss, 1993). The orientation is reformist rather than a forensic examination of what sustains the observed findings (Dore, 2019). The focus is a change in a system rather than changing the system (Yu, 2015).…”

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On (not) learning from self-neglect safeguarding adult reviews

Preston‐Shoot

2021

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Seeing anew: drawing on a psychosocial approach to consider vulnerability as a virtue for knowing

Dore

2020

Journal of Social Work Practice

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Psychosocial thinking has a long association with social work, guiding practitioners to take account of the individual's inner world of emotion and feeling, together with the outer world of relationships and events that serve to create it. Straddling these two interconnected spheres, Social Workers find themselves in a unique position as 'knowers' as they endeavour to make sense of the lives and experiences of others -in much the same way as many social science researchers. This article explores how a psychosocial approach can help develop a reflexive awareness of the self and others, thereby creating opportunities for new ways of seeing. In doing so, it provides an original analysis of how vulnerability might offer space to enhance knowing, where greater ontological consideration is given to unconscious and structural influences that help shape the subject positions of both knowledge seeker and subject. References to social work practice and psychosocial research also help to re-frame the connections between emic and etic standpoints, showing how it is possible to narrow the epistemological distance between the two. In this novel sense, vulnerability is viewed as a virtue for knowing.

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Transformative practice: social work practice with vulnerable young people

Munford

Sanders

2020

European Journal of Social Work

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Doing Knowing Ethically – Where Social Work Values Meet Critical Realism

Cited by 5 publications

References 24 publications

On (not) learning from self-neglect safeguarding adult reviews

On (not) learning from self-neglect safeguarding adult reviews

Seeing anew: drawing on a psychosocial approach to consider vulnerability as a virtue for knowing

Transformative practice: social work practice with vulnerable young people

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