Observation and Its Application to Social Work: Rather Like Breathing

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Jessica Kingsley Publishers, Jan 1, 1998 - Social Science - 224 pages
Observation helps students and social workers to assess dispassionately before intervening. The Tavistock Model of Observation, whic is informaed by psychiatric ideas (especially those of Melanie Klein and Wilfred Bion) forms the theoretical basis of this general book on the role of observation in social work.
 

Contents

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
8
The Observer as Participant 183
13
The Dimensions of Observation
17
Figures
20
Towards an Equality Model
39
A Process and an Event
63
Observing the Unthinkable in Residential Care
91
Beyond the Bureauprofessional
111
Holding a Mirror to the Institution
143
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Pat Le Riche has worked in a range of statutory and voluntary agencies. Her particular research interests are social work with older women and developments in community care. Both authors are lecturers in social work at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Karen Tanner has practice experience in child protection and has worked with children with life-threatening illnesses. She has direct experience of child observation and co-ordinates teaching in this area on a range of teaching programmes.

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