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The social logic of helping
Product: Book
Trim size in cm: 15x21
Pages: 643
ISBN: 978-88-6137-896-4
Publication date: 01/09/2011
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Through a powerful conceptual analysis, this book provides the language and the logical tools to lay the foundations for a general theory of social help, from which an original social work method named Relation Social Work is developed. Its scope is both theoretical and practical and describes applications in several areas of social work. This method promotes trust and the sharing of knowledge, namely the foundations of empowerment. The book is addressed to scholars and students in the field of social help (social workers, educators, psychologists, psychiatrists etc.) and of welfare, to social and health workers interested in professional epistemology and in social and health inclusion practices, and to policy-making experts interested in community network planning and in area plan development.
- Preface to the first edition
- Preface to the second edition
- Part one – The logic of taking intentional action for welfare
Social observation. How «social work» sees its own problems and how it is seen in turn by external observers
Facts and problems. The main institutions of social work and correlated worries Behaviour and actions. How to differentiate automatic behaviour from conscious actions
Coping. How the social problem rebels against itself and produces counter actions
- Part two – The logic of relations
The dual relationship. How the minimum unit of social coping is conceived and how it works
The coping network. How social relations crisscross in a shared care activity
- Part three – The logic of relational facilitation
Finding a natural network. How right from the first contact pre-existing natural coping can be identified
The catalysation of new networks. How to develop community projects or shared supervisory interventions
The formalisation of networks. How the facilitator reinforces and structures the coping network
- Afterword
