Engaging Communities and Service Users
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Engaging Communities and Service Users by Billie Oliver
Across the range of social care, health and welfare professions, it is essential that students and practitioners engage meaningfully with the communities and service users they work with. This book offers a timely and practical guide to the methods and skills related to forming and developing such partnerships. Helping both aspiring and experienced practitioners to empower communities and service users, this book: - Explores how the developing roles of communities and service users influence policy, services and practice - Highlights the different ethical, power and boundary tensions when working with communities and service users and suggests ways to overcome them - Provides examples, case studies, activities and useful resources which help illustrate ways and methods of empowering people and enabling their voices to be heard An accessible and wide-ranging book, Engaging Communities and Service Users is a must have text for students and practitioners in social care, health and welfare.
"This book offers a significant contribution to our critical understanding of community engagement and the challenge of developing new democratic ways of working with people and communities" - Terry Barber, Senior Lecturer in the School of Education, Social Work and Community Education, University of Dundee, UK "This is a user-friendly and engaging text which brings together the key policy strands and theoretical discussions relating to user involvement in an accessible manner." Lisa Goodson, Lecturer in the School of Social Policy, Institute of Applied Social Studies, University of Birmingham and author of Community Research for Participation: from Theory to Method, Policy Press "This is an accessible and well-crafted book that is relevant as an applied text for under-graduate and post-graduate students in the health, welfare and social care fields." - Debby Lynch, Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Work and Human Services, University of Queensland, Australia "The book works well as a 'how to' guide to engaging in participatory practice for undergraduate students and professionals across social work and health care." - Catherine Forde, Lecturer in Applied Social Studies, University College Cork, Ireland
Billie Oliver is Associate Professor in Integrated Children and Young People's Services at the University of the West of England, UK. Billie has worked in community and voluntary sector settings and is a qualified youth worker. Her research interests include participatory community engagement, social policy, integrated practice and professional identity. Bob Pitt is a Senior Lecturer at the University of the West of England, UK. His professional background is in community and adult education and community work. He teaches on social work and public health programmes. Bob's main area of research interest is participation of adult learners in post-compulsory education.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780230363076 |
| ISBN 10 | 0230363075 |
| Title | Engaging Communities and Service Users |
| Author | Billie Oliver |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2013-08-30 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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