Front Cover -- The Enlightened Social Worker: An Introduction to Rights-Focused Practice -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of figures, tables and boxes -- Acknowledgements -- Part I Rights and social work -- 1 Social work: tensions, conflicts and rights -- Social work and conflict -- Content of the book -- 2 The Enlightenment, social work and progress -- What was the Enlightenment? -- Criticisms of the Enlightenment -- Enlightenment ideals, oppression and resistance -- The birth of rights: individual freedom and negative rights
The first generation of rights: negative freedom and liberty -- The second generation of rights: positive freedom, needs and equality -- Criticisms of individualised rights and the development of the third generation of rights -- A response to these criticisms: social work and third-generation rights -- Towards rights-focused social work -- 3 On rights and social work -- A case study of rights-focused practice -- Rights and the case study -- Social work and human rights -- Rights in social work practice -- 4 Liberty, helping and protection -- Rights and capacity issues -- On rights and helping
The Mancini family -- The ladder of consequences and parental change -- So how can we work around change in protection? The ethics of social work -- How should we work with the ladder of consequences? -- Why do social workers talk to people like this? -- How should social workers talk with people? -- Conclusion -- 5 Social work, positive freedom and need -- Social work with children in need: a case study -- Social work and social need -- Social work, equality, positive rights and social need -- Individual and social need -- Social work, social needs and rights
The uncomfortable nature of social work -- 6 Human connection, community and love -- The Williams family -- What's love got to do with it? -- What is love? -- Social work and loving relationships -- Social workers and love -- A kind of loving -- Complications in applying a love ethic to rights-focused practice -- Love and professional boundaries -- What about unloveable people and actions? -- Implications of an ethic of love for social work -- Part II Theories for rights-focused practice -- 7 Humanist social work -- History of humanist psychology and social work -- Abraham Maslow -- Carl Rogers
Humanist helping -- Values and beliefs -- Practices -- Evidence -- Later developments in humanist helping -- Humanism and social work -- 8 The social model -- What is the medical model? -- Development of the social model -- The development of the social model in relation to disability -- The social model and child and family social work -- Limitations of the social model -- The social model, rights and social work -- Rights, humanist approaches and the social model -- Part III Rights-focused practice -- 9 Assessment as theory development -- What is assessment? -- Challenges for assessment
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