Social Work Practice for Promoting Health and Wellbeing
Promoting health and wellbeing is an essential part of all effective social work not just for practice in healthcare settings. In fact, the IFSW holds that social workers in all settings are engaged in health work and physical and mental resilience can make a major difference to all service users lives.
Drawing on international literature and research, the authors collected here encourage thinking about the social, political, cultural, emotional, spiritual, economic and spatial aspects of health and wellbeing, and how they impact on the unique strengths and challenges of working with particular populations and communities. Divided into three parts, the first section outlines the major theoretical paradigms and critical debates around social work and ideas of wellbeing, globalization, risk and vulnerability, and the natural environment. The second part goes on to explore how diverse understandings of culture, identity, spirituality and health require different strategies for meeting health and wellbeing needs. The final part presents a variety of examples of social work research in relation to health and well-being with specific populations, including mental health.
Exploring how structural inequality, oppression and stigma can impact upon people, and drawing upon a social model of health, this book is an important read for all practitioners and researchers interested in social work, public health and social inclusion.
Liz Beddoe is Associate Professor of Social Work at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Her teaching and research interests include critical perspectives on social work education, professional supervision, the professionalization project of social work, interprofessional learning and media framing of social problems.
Jane Maidment is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Human Services and Social Work at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. She has been a practitioner in the health sector and has researched and written extensively in the areas of field education, aged care and craft as a vehicle for social connectedness. She currently coordinates field education and teaches practice skills, field integration and theory for practice.
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Social work practice for promoting health and wellbeing : critical issues /
[edited by] Liz Beddoe, Jane Maidment. 1st Edition.
pages cm
1. Social service. I. Beddoe, Liz, 1956 editor of compilation.
II. Maidment, Jane, editor of compilation.
HV40.S61953 2014
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Contents
Liz Beddoe and Jane Maidment
Jane Maidment
Paul Bywaters
Linda Haultain
Liz Beddoe
Carole Adamson
Viviene E. Cree
Uschi Bay
Lorraine Muller
Joy Phillips
Yvonne Crichton-Hill, Tanya McCall and Genevieve Togiaso
Joy Phillips
Helen Meekosha and Karen Soldatic
Andrew Thompson and Carole Adamson
Phil Crane
Hong-Jae Park
Jay Marlowe
Selma Macfarlane
Christa Fouch
Jane Maidment, Uschi Bay and Michelle Courtney
Judith L. M. McCoyd
The editors
Liz Beddoe is Associate Professor of Social Work at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Her teaching and research interests include critical perspectives on social work education, professional supervision, the professionalization project of social work, interprofessional learning and media framing of social problems. Liz has published articles on supervision and professional issues in New Zealand and international journals and co-authored Best Practice in Professional Supervision: A Guide for the Helping Professions (Jessica Kingsley, 2010) with Allyson Davys and Mapping Knowledge for Social Work Practice: Critical Intersections , with Jane Maidment (Cengage, 2009), and co-edited Promoting Health and Well-being in Social Work Education with Beth Crisp (Routledge, 2013).
Jane Maidment is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Human Services and Social Work at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. She has been a practitioner in the health sector and has researched and written extensively in the areas of field education, aged care and craft as a vehicle for social connectedness. She co-authored with Liz Beddoe Mapping Knowledge for Social Work: Critical Intersections (Cengage, 2009); co-edited with Ronnie Egan Practice Skills for Social Work and Welfare (Allen & Unwin, 2009), and co-edited with Uschi Bay Social Work in Rural Australia (Allen & Unwin, 2013). Jane currently coordinates field education and teaches practice skills, field integration and theory for practice.
The contributors
Carole Adamson is Senior Lecturer in Social Work at the University of Auckland, New Zealand where her research and teaching focus on mental health, trauma, resilience and stress. She has research interests in developing resilient practitioners and in social work curriculum for disaster preparation and response. She has been a mental health social worker and also has experience in community development and residential social work. Carole sees as a major focal point in her work the articulation of theoretical perspectives and frameworks for social work practice that can integrate current, contextually-aware best practice and which can effectively be applied in practice settings.
Jim Anglem was Senior Lecturer in the Department of Human Services and Social Work at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand between the years of 2000 and 2011. He taught biculturalism and multiculturalism and writes on matters related to racism. Jim is Ngai Tahu Mori. He is currently Senior Lecturer in Research and Innovation and is a member of the Mori Research advisory group. He is also Kaumatua and board member for the Aotearoa New Zealand Association of Social Workers.
Uschi Bay is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Work at Monash University, Australia and a researcher with the Departments Gender, Leadership and Social Sustainability (GLASS) Research unit. Her research focuses on social and ecological sustainability, social movements, rural and remote communities, gender relations, transformative leadership and the role of practice theory in framing processes of critical reflexivity for students, allied health practitioners and community based organizations. Uschi is currently working with the Transition Town Movement in Australia, exploring its governance, gender relations and carbon emission reduction strategies.
