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Critical social work practice - Audio

The Open Universitywww3.open.ac.uk
This series of tracks looks at social work practice around the world and compares attitudes and management techniques within the social work field. Material is taken from The Open University Course K315 Critical social work practice.
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Episodes

What is critical practice?

A look at the meaning of critical practice, the views of service users, and the professional power of social workers.

Sep 04, 20086 min

Making decisions about people

A discussion about who should make the decisions in regard to service users and the success of family led methods in Scotland.

Sep 04, 20088 min

Regulation in social work

A look at the growth of regulation and how that feeds into the ability of individual practitioners to use their discretion.

Sep 04, 200810 min

How have regulations and standards changed the job?

A look at how the advent of the setting of standards in the education of social workers, and the regulatory framework that has been imposed from outside, has changed the job of the social worker.

Sep 04, 20086 min

Social work in a US school

A school social worker talks about her work and how it is managed at the school that she works at and the issues that are covered by the team.

Sep 04, 20089 min

Transcript -- Social work in a US school

Transcript -- A school social worker talks about her work and how it is managed at the school that she works at and the issues that are covered by the team.

Sep 04, 2008

Working in a school context

Amanda Mihaly talks about differences and tensions between social workers and school staff, and the problems of being grant funded.

Sep 04, 20086 min

Working in a Lithuanian polyclinic

Social workers at a Mental Health centre in Lithuania talk about their qualifications and why they became social workers and what their work involves at the centre.

Sep 04, 20088 min

Social work skills in a polyclinic setting

A look at the various methods of assessment and consultation that two social workers in a mental health centre use and the skills they believe are needed in the role.

Sep 04, 20089 min
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