All Outputs (51)

Bouncing back and building up? – A critique of the concept of resilience in relation to social work practitioners and their employing organisations. (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The overall aim of this paper is to critically discuss the findings of a literature review undertaken in 2018 by exploring the concept of resilience and social work. The findings will be illustrated throughout by drawing on examples from current rese... Read More about Bouncing back and building up? – A critique of the concept of resilience in relation to social work practitioners and their employing organisations..

Why psychosocial thinking is critical (2019)
Book Chapter

This chapter discusses the relevance of psychosocial theory for social work understanding

Why do they stay? A study of resilient child protection workers in three European countries (2018)
Journal Article

© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Whilst 50% of child protection workers across much of Europe and the affluent ‘West’ leave after two years, many stay and develop substantial professional careers. This paper discusses r... Read More about Why do they stay? A study of resilient child protection workers in three European countries.

Outsiders and learners: Negotiating meaning in comparative European social work research practice (2017)
Journal Article

© 2015, © The Author(s) 2015. This paper draws on two experiences of undertaking comparative research in England, Sweden and Italy, and offers a discussion of the kinds of dilemmas raised in relation to language and meaning surfaced by these. Its pri... Read More about Outsiders and learners: Negotiating meaning in comparative European social work research practice.

Exploring the Concepts of Recognition and Shame for Social Work (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 GAPS. Recognition and shame are both concepts that potentially offer social workers a structure to build practice on; two states experienced by both social workers and service users. ‘Recognition’, within social, political and economic thought... Read More about Exploring the Concepts of Recognition and Shame for Social Work.

Why social work and sociology need psychosocial theory (2015)
Journal Article

Sociology and social work as disciplines have, over the last decades, had an, at best, ambivalent relationship. Whereas branches of sociology, such as symbolic interactionism, have produce theory of immense use to social work, for example the concept... Read More about Why social work and sociology need psychosocial theory.

Thinking about the lifecourse: A psychosocial introduction (2014)
Book

How we change over time - who we love, what work we do, how we die - is shaped both by internal, and external influences. This book explores the important subject of human growth and development by combining the social context of how people live with... Read More about Thinking about the lifecourse: A psychosocial introduction.

Readiness for practice: social work students' perspectives in England, Italy, and Sweden (2013)
Journal Article

The aim of this article is to present the views of social work students from three different welfare regimes-Italy, Sweden, and England-and to analyze in what way at the end of their training they feel ready to practice. Primarily, it considers the f... Read More about Readiness for practice: social work students' perspectives in England, Italy, and Sweden.

Educating the new practitioner: The building of professional identities in European social work (2012)
Journal Article

This article sets out to consider the tentative findings that have emerged from a comparative pilot study of the value given to their social work education by newly qualified social workers in England, Sweden and Italy. The overall aim of the researc... Read More about Educating the new practitioner: The building of professional identities in European social work.

Is there a European social work identity? (2008)
Journal Article

The aim of this paper is to examine whether at this point in time the notion of a 'European social work identity' can be sustained. The paper commences with some brief consideration of theories of identity, and particularly draws attention to social... Read More about Is there a European social work identity?.

Human agency and social suffering (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In this paper the authors are primarily exploring the notion of social suffering within a psychosocial paradigm. A brief outline of Bourdieu's concept of social suffering, and a similarly concise explication of the psychosocial subject as contemporar... Read More about Human agency and social suffering.

Why teach social work students psychosocial studies? (2008)
Journal Article

This paper is primarily concerned with examining how the current re-emergence of psychosocial theory, mainly emanating from sociology, is useful for informing social work theory. Firstly it considers two extended examples of the limitations and/or co... Read More about Why teach social work students psychosocial studies?.

Human agency and social suffering (2008)
Book Chapter

European identites and social work education (2005)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Travail social et sociologie de la modernite (2005)
Book Chapter

Children, young people and families: Examining social work practice in Europe (2005)
Book Chapter

Theorizing the Young Woman in the Body (2005)
Journal Article

Children, young people and families. Examining social work practice in Europe (2005)
Book

The social construction of 'betweenagers' as a new category of risk (2004)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Researching young women's bodies: Values, dilemmas and contradictions (2004)
Book Chapter