Summary
Contents
Subject index
Older people are the biggest service user group for social workers and an increasing portion of the population. In this refreshingly positive and practical textbook, Rory Lynch draws on years of practice and teaching experience to show how to achieve best social work practice with older adults. He takes a person-centred approach, which fosters respect by valuing the fact that elderly people have more lived experience than others.Exploring the key theoretical approaches and methods of intervention, this book helps social workers to identify, understand and facilitate their service-users’ wishes for wellbeing and a fulfilling older age. Chapters are practice-driven, containing case studies drawn from a range of care settings, reflective questions and exercises.Mapping directly onto the key modules on the social work degree, this is essential reading for all student social workers, especially as they prepare to go on their practice placement. It is also valuable reading for qualified social workers.
Values and Ethics
Values and Ethics
Learning Outcomes
This chapter looks at:
- Ethics and values and the perception of older people and ageing generally.
- Moral philosophy and what we may consider and know about the ‘rightness’ of actions.
- Professionalism and the understanding and role of social work.
- Structural oppression and ageism and how cultural and societal norms influence and reinforce discriminatory practice.
- Cultural diversity and perceptions of difference and deviance.
- Sexuality and gender and myths of ageing, experience, needs and rights.
Introduction
The purpose of this chapter is to explore a consideration of ethics and values as part of that inclusive continuum of effective social work understanding. There is a focus here on the differences between ethics and values and how these may be viewed (Beckett and Maynard, 2005; Hugman, 2005; Reamer, 2006). This ...
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