Social Work and Community Care

Payne, Malcolm; Campling, Jo

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“…Theories and interventions that emphasize the socio-ecological context around groups and individuals are parts of the core of social workers' self-understanding and practice (Bronfenbrenner 1979;Payne 1995Payne , 2005. A shared feature of the T.…”

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The Power and Ethics of Social Network Intervention in Working with At-Risk Youth

Forkby

2009

Child Adolesc Soc Work J

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Approaches that intervene in and aim to build alliances in the client's family and network are common in child welfare, not at least in measures undertaken towards at-risk youth. The ideological components of democracy and empowerment are strong, and some claim an affinity to the ''natural'' problem solving of indigenous people. In the article some of these basic assumptions are called into question in the light of research on professional power and asymmetrical relations. Special attention is paid the network meeting which is supposed to shape common understanding and joint action. Eight network meetings of two network teams in Sweden were observed. The article concludes that social network intervention can be a powerful method. It can contribute to instilling hope and building alliances. However, the network meeting also produces explanations, roles and can bring premature disclosures because of the strong group dynamic forces. The power of the method therefore calls for an ethical awareness. It can be tempting to stimulate group dynamic forces to create climaxes in order to achieve ''good meetings'', but the consequences are not always easy to foresee or to control.

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The Power and Ethics of Social Network Intervention in Working with At-Risk Youth

Forkby

2009

Child Adolesc Soc Work J

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“…From a post-modern point of view, however, they are merely linguistic constructs. For instance, it could be argued that the discourse of 'need', which is at the heart of new community care developments such as care management (Payne, 1995), does not communicate an absolute state of affairs but rather serves to construct the very notion of 'need'. 'Need' does not arise spontaneously from the 'client' but is constructed through social work norms and routines, and the 'client' is then required to react to that 'need'.…”

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Can discourse analysis enable reflective social work practice?

Ellermann¹

1998

Social Work Education

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This article explores the implications of discourse analysis for reflective social work practice. Because discourse analysis is itself embedded in discourse, we begin by placing contemporary discourse analysis within its post-modern and post-structuralist context. In the second section we provide an analysis of humanism, as the dominant social work discourse, and black perspectives and feminism, as examples of alternative discourses. Alternative discourses deconstruct the knowledge claims of dominant discourses by exposing their Euro-centric and patriarchal assumptions. Under the scrutiny of post-modern analysis, however, even alternative discourses have been &constructed, their own knowledge claims called into question. In the third section we consider the possibility that discourse analysis, if incorporated into social work training, might encourage reflective practice. Because of the &constructive nature of discourse analysis, it can help place social workers in a "position of uncertainty" This uncertainty may be threatening to professionals" conceptions of themselves. But to the extent that professionals can learn to accept and tolerate contingency, they might be able to assume a posture of openness that would, in turn, facilitate reflective practice.

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“…The relatively small number that do (e.g. Payne, 1995) mainly appear in the period just after the official introduction of 'Community Care' in 1993, with the introduction of 'care management'. However, this specific period apart, neither 'broker' nor 'brokerage' is a term indexed in most standard social work texts of the 1970s, 80s, 90s or 2000s.…”

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“…This was most noticeable when care management was first introduced in the early to mid 1990s (Payne, 1995). After a decade or so of near silence on the subject, talk of social care workers taking on some form of broker or navigator role has seen a marked revival in recent years (Commission for Social Care Inspection (CSCI), 2006;Cornes, 2006;Department of Health, 2007Henwood and Walker, 2007).…”

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Going for Brokerage: A Task of 'Independent Support' or Social Work?

Scourfield

2008

British Journal of Social Work

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SummaryIt is argued that for the agenda to 'personalize' social care in the UK to be successful, adequate systems of support brokerage need to be in place. Where brokerage is situated organizationally and ideologically is not inconsequential, both in terms of the accountability, profile and quality of the 'brokers' and the extent to which service users can feel properly in control of their own care or support. Many involved in support brokerage argue that independence from statutory bodies is a key principle. However, models of support brokerage have been suggested that propose brokerage as a possible function of the statutory social care sector. The paper traces how and why the 'new' language of brokerage has emerged in official discourses of adult social care. It also discusses the various ideas about what brokerage is and who is supposed to undertake it. It is considered whether support brokerage should be regarded as a form of social work, which is not currently the case. Were independent support brokerage to expand its role in the adult social care system, the question would arise of where that would leave social work with adults. These developments expose conflicts and tensions in New Labour's modernization agenda.

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The Power and Ethics of Social Network Intervention in Working with At-Risk Youth

The Power and Ethics of Social Network Intervention in Working with At-Risk Youth

Can discourse analysis enable reflective social work practice?

Going for Brokerage: A Task of 'Independent Support' or Social Work?

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