Boring records? : communication, speech and writing in social work /
Katie Prince.
- London : Jessica Kingsley, 1996.
- xiii, 210 p. : figs, tables ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliography, index.
1. Spoken and Written Language: A Theoretical Framework -- 2. A Context for Record Keeping in Child Care Social Work -- 3. The Clinic Social Worker's Perspective -- 4. The Client's View -- 5. Towards a Way of Examining Both Theoretical and Practice Aspects of the Interactive Process in Case Recording -- 6. Discussion of the Action Research (Theoretical Perspectives) -- 7. Description and Evaluation of the Experience of Open and Participative Recording Practice.
This is a guide for anyone whose work involves changing conversation into written records. The author challenges the notion of record keeping as a mundane chore, and places record keeping in the contex of a network of communication.