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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.
Being a Research-Practitioner
Being a Research-Practitioner
Learning Outcomes
This chapter looks at:
- Background to evidence-based practice.
- Emancipatory and participatory focus of research and how this informs the practice and experience of workers and older people.
- Becoming a research-practitioner and what this involves within an inclusive and collaborative context.
- The evidence-based research literature and how this may potentially inform and support effective practice.
- Mutuality of learning and how this is not a one-way process but one that should liberate practitioner and older people generally.
- Methodology and the practical application and appreciation of what works.
Background to evidence-based practice
Theoretical knowledge does not arrive fully formed from the minds of researchers but is premised by considerable time spent on research and evidence-based practice. To students who suggest that their own knowledge and experience is the critical ...
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