Health, Welfare and Practice

Ray Woolfe is a Counselling Psychologist in private practice.

Introduction Roles and Relationships in Health and Welfare PART ONE: EXPERIENCE AND EXPERTISE What is a Profession? Experience versus Expertise - Jan Williams Reflection-in-Action - Donald Sch[um]on License and Mandate - Everett C Hughes It's Not What You Do but Who You Are - Jan Walmsley Caring Roles and Caring Relationships Professional Ideology or Organizational Tribalism? The Health Service-Social Work Divide - Gillian Dalley Labour Relations - Jenny Kitzinger, Josephine Green and Vanessa Coupland Midwives and Doctors on the Labour Ward Meaningful Distances - Ruth Purtilo Wounded Healers - Patrick Wakeling Awakenings The Face-to-Face Interaction and After the Consultation - Gerry Stimson and Barbara Webb Pregnancy and Childbirth - Elizabeth Roberts A Historical Perspective How the Poor Die - George Orwell PART TWO: DIVERSITY AND DISCRIMINATION Feminist Theory and Strategy in Social Work - Jill Reynolds Towards an Anti-racist Curriculum in Social Work Training - Don Naik Commonalities and Diversities between Women Clients and Women Social Workers - Jalna Hanmer and Daphne Statham Violence against Black Women - Amina Mama Gender, Race and State Responses Black Nightingales - Yasmin Alibhai Men - Sara Arber and Nigel Gilbert The Forgotten Carers The Alienated - Gladys Elder Growing Old Today Making Gardens from Wildernesses - Norma Pitfield The Lives of Older Women Acquired Hearing Loss - Maggie Woolley Acquired Oppression PART THREE: EMPOWERMENT AND POWER Issues of Power in Health and Welfare - Roger Gomm From Curing or Caring to Defining Disabled People - Vic Finkelstein A Community's Adaptation to Deafness - Nora Ellen Groce Empowerment and Oppression - David Ward and Audrey Mullender An Indissoluble Pairing for Contemporary Social Work New Disability Services - Christopher Brown and Charles Ringma The Critical Role of Staff in a Consumer-directed Empowerment Model The Barns Experiment - W David Wills Resisting the System - Maggie Potts and Rebecca Fido Anita's Story - Anita Binns Rules, Roles and Relationships - Sheelagh Strawbridge PART FOUR: REFLECTING ON PRACTICE Trauma and Tedium - Barbara Webb An Account of Living on a Children's Ward Ritual and Rational Action in Hospitals - Gillian Chapman A Feeling for Medicine - Naomi Craft Personal and Medical Memories from Hillsborough - Tom Heller Conflicts in the Residential Keyworker Role - Graham Connelly Thinking about Feelings in Group Care - John Simmonds Reflections on Short-term Casework - Liz Lloyd Establishing a Feminist Model of Groupwork in the Probation Service - Tara Mistry When the Solution becomes a Part of the Problem - Robert Bor, Lucy Perry and Riva Miller Conclusion - Kate Lyon Why Study Roles and Relationships?

`A dazzling variety of articles drawn from almost the entire health and welfare spectrum. The problem is what to read first. Should it be George Orwell's account of death in a Paris hospital in 1929, or GP Tom Heller's memories of the Hillsborough disaster? There is meat for the academically minded alongside telling insights from service users like Anita Binns, a woman with learning disabilities. The emphasis on roles and relationships holds the collection together and frees many of the writers to set aside professional status and use their personal experience to inform the search for better practice. If only the book was likely to be read by all the professional know-it-alls who think they are above their clients' - Health Service Journal `many nuggets worth mining, and it is a valuable teaching resource.' - Medical Sociology News `useful because it collects together disparate material in one place ... This book represents the resurgence of role analysis in social work ... One of the assets of the book is its material from both health and social work professions ... this book asserts and demonstrates extremely well and interestingly the value of self-reflection in professional practice' - British Journal of Social Work `This book has a number of strengths. All of the chapters are brief and well focused ... many of [them] stand as excellent vehicles for stimulating class discussion... I think this book has excellent applicability to the education of students of a variety of health and human service occupations' - Disability Studies Quarterly `This Open University Reader focuses on reflective practice from a multi-occupational perspective, using roles and relationships as its organising theme. It is written for an audience of trainers, teachers, students and workers to develop practice in health and welfare.... This is a very good reader whose contents provide rich, varied and moving material for health and welfare professionals' - Disability and Society