Robert Adams

Quality Social Work (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a practical approach to maximising quality in social work that is based on developing a working culture that empowers key stakeholders in the delivery of services, whether these are managers, practitioners, service users or carers. Aiming to transcend the constraints on professionalism imposed by managerialism and the contract culture, it provides a critical appraisal of the main approaches to quality assurance and analyses these in detail in relation to child care, community care, mental health and criminal justice.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 261
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 1998
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781349137336
• Artikelnr.: 54794295

Autorenporträt

ROBERT ADAMS is Professor of Human Services Development, attached to the Policy Studies Research Centre, University of Lincoln, and Visiting Professor of Social Work, University of Teesside. He has worked in social work and criminal justice settings and is the author of a number of books, including Social Policy for Social Work and Quality Social Work.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Introduction
Quality Assurance in Social Work
Approaches to Quality Assurance in Social Work
Challenging Managerialism in Assuring Social Work Quality
Quality Education for Social Workers
Maintaining Quality: Standardisation and Proceduralism in Criminal Justice
Work
Rectifying Quality: Beyond an Error-driven Approach in Mental Health
Enhancing Quality 1: Professional Audit and Progressive Practice in Child
Care
Enhancing Quality 2: Monitoring and Evaluating for Quality in Community
Care
Maximising Quality in Social Work
Appendix
Bibliography 
Index.