Psychoanalytic theory for social work practice : thinking under fire / / edited by Marion Bower

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910814157203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2005
• ISBN: 1-134-30467-6; 9786610268382; 1-134-30468-4; 1-280-26838-7; 0-203-34115-5
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (250 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): BowerMarion <1949->
• Disciplina: 150.19/5/0243613
• Soggetti: Social service; Psychoanalysis
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Psychoanalytic theories for social work practice / Marion Bower -- Psychoanalytic research and its relevance for social work practice / Steve Briggs -- Racist states of mind: an attack on thinking and curiosity / Narendra Keval -- Observation in social work practice / Biddy Youell -- 'Thinking in and out of the frame' : applying systemic ideas to social work with children / Gwyn Daniel -- Individual brief psychotherapy with sexually abused girls and parallel support work with parents and carers / Julie Long, Judith Trowell and Gillian Miles -- Double deprivation / Gianna Williams -- Psychoanalytic perspectives on emotional problems facing parents of children with learning disabilities / David Simpson -- The court, the couple and the consultant : is there room for a third position? / Judith Freedman -- Dangerous cocktails : drugs and alcohol within the family / Martin Weegmann -- Working with borderline personality disorder / Joseph Mishan -- Working with families who see help as the problem / Marion Bower -- Re-enactment as an unwitting professional response to family dynamics / Ronald Britton -- Who cares for the carers : work with refugees / Maureen Fox -- The containing function of supervision in working with abuse / Dick ; Agass.
• Sommario/riassunto: It gives me great pleasure to write a preface for this book, which I hope will make asignificant contribution to the further development of social work in Britain and othercountries. The book is published at an important moment in the history of the social workprofession in Britain. For the first time social care workers are now part of a registeredprofession. In past decades the question of professional registration was often a subject ofheated debate between those who were convinced of its need if social work was toestablish itself within the multidisciplinary professional field, and those w