Mock Interview Panel by @Profsocialwork with @Mamiddau & @Obi1

Mock Interview Panel: Panel: @mamiddau and @profsocialwork Interviewee @Obi1 Position: @Obi1 is apply for the position of Children’s #SocialWorker within a local authority/statutory setting. The area of practice will focus…

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Support vs. Safeguarding and Care vs. Control… – Summary of the debate on 7 February 2012

Social workers have the dual mandate of supporting and safeguarding children and adults as well as their families. However, at times, what a professional may consider as necessary support for…

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Care and Support should be the primary Goals – Opinion piece by: Dr. Laura Lewis

To what degree are social work services caring and supportive, rather than controlling or solely focused on safeguarding?  This question is not purely academic in nature, as positive outcomes and…

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Reflections on Support vs. Safeguarding – Opinion piece by Nushra Mansuri @BASW_UK

I must admit, I think that this is a very contemporary debate, particularly in terms of last week’s excellent opening programme of the three part series  ‘Protecting our Children –…

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Support vs. Safeguarding and Care vs. Control…

Social workers have the dual mandate of supporting and safeguarding children and adults as well as their families. However, at times, what a professional may consider as necessary support for…

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Shallow Slumber – A Review by: @SocialWorkSmurf

As a first year student social worker, I was eager to attend the opening night of Shallow Slumber at the Soho Theatre in Dean Street, as the play was written…

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Social Work Praxis – Summary of the debate on 31 January 2012 – #Socialwork Praxis

We are sorry for the delayed posting of our summary. We have had some technical problems and it has now been resolved. Therefore, below is the summary of this week’s…

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Are we Praxisioners? – Social Work Praxis – Opinion piece by: Nick Berbiers

Praxis, lest you be unaware, is the Klingon moon, utilised as a key energy production facility, which is foolishly destroyed due to over-mining by those furrow-browed permagrumpies in Star Trek:…

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Do Theories Have Any Relevance for Social Work Practice? A Case Example – Opinion Piece by Dr. Nancy Smyth

My best example of the relationship between theory and practice comes from my own work as a clinical social worker doing psychotherapy.  In this case I’ll illustrate the process of changing…

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Praxis, social work and cake…

An ill timed tweet mentioning Paulor Freire’s book Pedagogy of the Oppressed bought an invitation from @swscmedia to contribute an opinion piece to this week’s debate on “The fusion of…

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