Engaging Communities and Service Users

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Context, Themes and Methods

ISBN: 0230363075
ISBN 13: 9780230363076
Autor: Oliver, Billie/Pitt, Bob
Verlag: Springer Verlag GmbH
Umfang: 225 S.
Erscheinungsdatum: 30.08.2013
Auflage: 1/2013
Format: 1.5 x 23.5 x 15.8
Gewicht: 373 g
Produktform: Kartoniert
Einband: Kartoniert

Across the range of social care, health and welfare professions, it is essential that students and practitioners engage meaningfully with the communities and service users they work with. This book offers a timely and practical guide to the methods and skills related to forming and developing such partnerships. Helping both aspiring and experienced practitioners to empower communities and service users, this book: Explores how the developing roles of communities and service users influence policy, services and practice. Highlights the different ethical, power and boundary tensions when working with communities and service users and suggests ways to overcome them. Provides examples, case studies, activities and useful resources which help illustrate ways and methods of empowering people and enabling their voices to be heard. An accessible and wide-ranging book, Engaging Communities and Service Users is a must have text for students and practitioners in social care, health and welfare.

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Autorenporträt

Billie Oliver is Associate Professor in Integrated Children and Young People's Services at the University of the West of England, UK. Billie has worked in community and voluntary sector settings and is a qualified youth worker. Her research interests include participatory community engagement, social policy, integrated practice and professional identity. Bob Pitt is a Senior Lecturer at the University of the West of England, UK. His professional background is in community and adult education and community work. He teaches on social work and public health programmes. Bob's main area of research interest is participation of adult learners in post-compulsory education.

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