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Boring Records: Communication, Speech and Writing in Social Work

  • ISBN-13: 9781853023255
  • Publisher: JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
    Imprint: JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
  • By Katie Prince
  • Price: AUD $67.99
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 14/07/1996
  • Format: Paperback (231.00mm X 159.00mm) 224 pages Weight: 358g
  • Categories: Counselling & advice services [JKSN2]
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This book will be an invaluable guide for anyone whose work involves changing conversation into written records. Basing her ideas on research material obtained within multidisciplinary child guidance clinics, the author: makes clear the complexity, but also the importance, of case recording; challenges the notion of record keeping as a mundane chore; places record keeping in the context of a network of communication. Using the perceptions of parents, children and clinical social workers the author demonstrates the centrality of the work of record keeping for social work practitioners.
Introduction; record keeping in child care social work; the clinical social worker's perspective; method of work; descriptions of recording systems; records of direct work with children; purposes of records kept by child guidance social workers; issues of communication and language; access to personal files; statements of special educational needs; The client's view; method of work; location and purpose of the record; communication: speech versus writing; information: power, surveillance, stigma; statements of special educational needs; communication by children - art work; client participation in recording; theory and practice - process in recording; an action research approach; method of work; description of the agency; selection of sample cases; action research finding - broad themes; who is the client? confidentiality and third parties; information - index and source of power; recording and professional negotiation; conversation, language and text; the social worker-researcher's experience of the change in practice; action research findings - participation; introduction; parental response to participation; timing and the 'life' of the case; conversation, language and text; effect of situational factors; ownership of information; availability of records to clients; empowerment and enhanced therapy.

A provocative read well worth having in any departmental library or resource centre.'

Rostrum

'A stimulating, even provocative, book - not a boring tome at all.

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