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Governing risk: care and control in contemporary social work
"Drawing on Foucault's later work on governmentality, this book traces the effects of 'the rise of risk' on contemporary social work practice. Focusing on two 'domains' of practice - mental health social work and probation work - it analyses the ways in which risk thinking has affected social work's aims and objectives, methods and approaches. It critically interrogates the claim that the logic of actuarialsim is implicated in a shift from 'care' to 'control' and argues the case for a distinctive approach to understanding and undertaking social work which does justice to the reality of contemporary practice"--
Poverty metaphors: An autoethnography in three parts
In: Qualitative social work: research and practice, Band 23, Heft 1, S. 145-164
ISSN: 1741-3117
This autoethnography seeks to open up for re-interpretation and debate three topics that feature within social work practice, research, and education: firstly the value and use of metaphor in understanding practice, secondly approaches to social work reflective writing, and thirdly the issue of poverty and its significance and impact in child and family social work. Metaphors can be valuable in framing understanding of issues within social work practice and advocating for change. Three metaphors have been particularly used in understanding the relationship between social work practice and poverty: The Invisibility of Poverty, The Elephant in the Room, and The Wallpaper of Practice. The three Parts of this autoethnography each adopt a different approach to autoethnographic writing and addresses and unsettles one of these metaphors. The first part adopts a narrative-reflective-analytical approach conventional to reflective writing in social work. The second and third parts adopt poetic and post-humanist approaches, respectively. It is proposed that adopting autoethnography as a methodology challenges the uncritical application of metaphor to situated practice and thereby prevents interpretive foreclosure. 'Writing against' objectified social work knowledge may assist in opening up practice to more challenging critical reflection and re-interpretation. Juxtaposing these three parts demonstrates the potential of non-conventional autoethnographic approaches to provide opportunities for deeper reflection on the experiences of doing social work within the context of poverty than conventional approaches to reflective writing. Furthermore, they indicate a need to reconsider how well these metaphors reflect social work practice experience with poverty.
Career Interview with Ian Shaw
In: Qualitative social work: research and practice, Band 18, Heft 3, S. 370-381
ISSN: 1741-3117
The second interview is with Ian Shaw, co-founder of Qualitative social work, and co-editor for many years. The parallels between Roy and Ian's backgrounds and subsequent career and scholarly development are notable. Like Roy, Ian refers to his working class background, the influence of religious belief on disciplinary interests, professional development and political leanings. Similarly, we witness the ways in which the direct experience of undertaking broadly quantitative research studies contributed to the development of distinctively qualitative methodological preferences. Taken together, these two interviews provide an insightful and inspiring window onto the intersection between individual and intellectual biography, professional practice and disciplinary identity.
'I know what I like and I like what I know': Epistemology in practice and theory and practice again
In: Qualitative social work: research and practice, Band 15, Heft 5-6, S. 762-778
ISSN: 1741-3117
This article is a reflective piece in which I account for how and why I have developed my current understanding of the relevance of epistemology to practice, to social work research and to the relationship between the two. Social work as a profession has itself faced something of an epistemological crisis of late, which has impacted on both practice and research in ways which have not necessarily been beneficial. I will draw my own practice and reseach to highlight the twists and turns in the development of my thinking about these issues and as a corollary, my views regarding the bridging role that pragmatic epistemology might play between research and practice.
The politics of child protection: Contemporary developments and future directions Nigel Parton
In: Qualitative social work: research and practice, Band 14, Heft 5, S. 722-726
ISSN: 1741-3117
Ways of knowing in social work research
In: Qualitative social work: research and practice, Band 14, Heft 5, S. 721-722
ISSN: 1741-3117
Knowledge and theory in the social professions
In: Qualitative social work: research and practice, Band 14, Heft 3, S. 436-437
ISSN: 1741-3117
Histories in the present
In: Qualitative social work: research and practice, Band 13, Heft 6, S. 783-784
ISSN: 1741-3117
Social Injustice: Essays in Political Philosophy
In: Ethics and social welfare, Band 8, Heft 4, S. 429-431
ISSN: 1749-6543
Too good to be true? Reckoning with realism
In: Qualitative social work: research and practice, Band 13, Heft 4, S. 584-585
ISSN: 1741-3117
Quality counts: Integrating and using research knowledge in social work
In: Qualitative social work: research and practice, Band 13, Heft 2, S. 320-321
ISSN: 1741-3117
Towards Professional Reason: Practical Deliberation in the People Professions
In: Ethics and social welfare, Band 7, Heft 4, S. 432-434
ISSN: 1749-6543
Sense and non-sense in knowledge-based practice
In: Qualitative social work: research and practice, Band 12, Heft 6, S. 858-859
ISSN: 1741-3117
'Public' social work?
In: Qualitative social work: research and practice, Band 12, Heft 4, S. 540-541
ISSN: 1741-3117