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Best practice with older people : social work stories / Karen Jones and Susanna Watson.

By: Jones, Karen (Karen Lesley), 1963- [author.]Contributor(s): Watson, Susanna [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013Description: ix, 206 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780230293823 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Social work with older people | Social case work | Health and Fitness | Health and WellbeingDDC classification: 362.6 Summary: Social workers often have to handle a great deal of negativity in their working lives. This book celebrates social work practice at its most positive and influential and, in doing so, contributes to a growing literature on critical best practice. Focused on 12 unique and compelling stories of social work with older people, the authors provide a fresh and realistic insight into life as a social worker, and the dilemmas and difficulties that practitioners typically face.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Social workers often have to handle a great deal of negativity in their working lives. This book celebrates social work practice at its most positive and influential and, in doing so, contributes to a growing literature on critical best practice. Focused on 12 unique and compelling stories of social work with older people, the authors provide a fresh and realistic insight into life as a social worker, and the dilemmas and difficulties that practitioners typically face.

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