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Self-Leadership in Social Work: Reflections from Practice
Bill McKitterick
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Description for Self-Leadership in Social Work: Reflections from Practice
Paperback. This book explores how, through strong self-leadership, social workers can both explain and demonstrate how social work can achieve positive change. Num Pages: 172 pages. BIC Classification: JKSN; KJM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 217 x 137 x 19. Weight in Grams: 272.
This book is a call for confident, skilled and knowledgeable practice in social work. The current managerialist agenda has restricted judgement and the exercise of discretion in the profession, and, more damagingly, has played down the social justice components of social work, as well as the responsibilities for therapeutic and change-orientated interventions. This book explores how, through strong self-leadership, social workers can both explain and demonstrate how social work can achieve positive change. Offering a fresh and innovative view on leadership for social workers, managers of social services and social work students at all levels, the book identifies tactics ... Read more
This book is a call for confident, skilled and knowledgeable practice in social work. The current managerialist agenda has restricted judgement and the exercise of discretion in the profession, and, more damagingly, has played down the social justice components of social work, as well as the responsibilities for therapeutic and change-orientated interventions. This book explores how, through strong self-leadership, social workers can both explain and demonstrate how social work can achieve positive change. Offering a fresh and innovative view on leadership for social workers, managers of social services and social work students at all levels, the book identifies tactics ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bristol University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
271g
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781447314851
SKU
V9781447314851
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Ref
99-50
About Bill McKitterick
Bill McKitterick is a social worker now working in supervision and leadership. He has been a director of social services for ten years, including leading workforce development. He has worked in programmes to improve social work practice in local authority services following critical inspections and has contributed through the British Association of Social Workers and the College of Social Work ... Read more
Reviews for Self-Leadership in Social Work: Reflections from Practice
"Drawing on extensive experience as practitioner, manager and passionate advocate for relationship-based social work, Bill McKitterick's analysis of the centrality of leadership throughout a social worker's career is thoroughly researched and scholarly but also intensely personal." June Thoburn, University of East Anglia “Based on decades of experience McKitterick makes a powerful case for the authority of practice and the ... Read more