This book provides an up-to-date and authoritative overview of the development of social work with older people in the UK. The coherent structure draws together the key themes involved in working with older people, and clearly demonstrates how to translate these into real-life practice. Key features of the book include: - Establishes an understanding of the policy context within which social work takes place, with particular attention to key topics such as inter-professional collaboration and ethics. - Goes beyond other textbooks to challenge the restricted nature of social work practice, and adopts a positive view of its potential to benefit older people. - An engaging and practice-led approach which includes student-friendly features and detailed practice scenarios. - Satisfies the curriculum benchmarks and National Occupational Standards that structure social work training and practice. Written by a leading academic, this is a key text for social work trainees. Its analytical depth will ensure that it will also be valuable for students undertaking post-qualifying courses, and for those in related disciplines such as health and community care, social policy and social gerontology. Its practice-based and inter-professional approach will mean it is also useful for health and social care practitioners seeking to improve the quality of practice with older people. `Drawing on both theory and research as well as the author's clear knowledge of current practice, this book is able to deal with practice realities in ways which many texts cannot. It offers social workers realistic options for how to approach their work' - Karen Postle, University of East Anglia
Exploring the key theoretical approaches and methods of intervention with older people, this uniquely positive, practical book helps social workers to identify, understand and facilitate their service-users' wishes for wellbeing and a ...
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Worden (2003) refers to shock when a sudden death occurs; even where the death is expected, shock may be the response when the final announcement is made. The reaction of anger, and resentment, may emerge as a person acknowledges the ...
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This second edition looks in detail at the role of the social worker who engages with older people.
Presenting a strengths-based approach to social work with older adults, the fourth edition of this text examines the basics of biopsychosocial functioning and the design of interventions to treat a wide variety of challenges facing older ...
Gerontological Social Work in Action introduces "anti-oppression gerontology" (AOG), a critical approach to social work with older adults, their families, and communities.
The Second Edition of the Handbook of Social Work in Health and Aging describes innovations in clinical practice for populations that social workers serve, overviews of the arenas in which they practice, and major developments in the social ...
American Journal of Public Health, (6), 106. https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.2016.303147 Ziperstein, D., Ruth, B. J., Clement, A., Marshall, J. W., Wachman, M., & Velasquez, E. E. (2015). Mapping dual‐degree programs in social work and ...
This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Gerontological Social Work.