In the 1970s residential care was usually seen by social workers as
a regrettable necessity, to be used only as a last resort. So the
important contribution it made to social wellbeing was not
explored, and it remained the Cinderella of social work for
resources, status and training. Originally published in 1979,
Howard Jones counters this negative attitude by asking what role
residential care in its various forms should play. He sees the
regime as the key to the understanding of that role, and group work
as the social work method on which it should be based. Among the
topics dealt with in The Residential Community are regime-planning,
staffing, selection for residential care, the dynamics of
interpersonal relationships in the institution, relationships with
neighbours and the relatives of inmates, and the rational planning
of daily programmes so that they become not merely pastimes, but an
active contribution towards the realisation of institutional aims.
Some current controversies in social work are taken up, in so far
as they are relevant to residential care, in particular the nature
of the implicit contract between residents and staff, and the
related question of whether residential social workers should
attempt to ‘change’ their clients.
General
| Imprint: |
Taylor & Francis
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Series: |
Routledge Revivals |
| Release date: |
September 2023 |
| Authors: |
Howard Jones
|
| Dimensions: |
216 x 138mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
150 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-03-256751-8 |
| Categories: |
Books
Promotions
|
| LSN: |
1-03-256751-1 |
| Barcode: |
9781032567518 |
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