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dc.contributor.author | Sullivan, MP | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-09-08T15:02:33Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2014-09-08T15:02:33Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2009 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | British Journal of Social Work, 39(7), 1306 - 1325, 2009 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0045-3102 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://bjsw.oxfordjournals.org/content/39/7/1306 | en |
dc.identifier.uri | http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/9019 | - |
dc.description | This article is available open access through the publisher’s website through the link below. Copyright @ 2008 The Authors. | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | Since the inception of the NHS and Community Care in 1990, there has been a proliferation of studies examining its implementation at the front line. Considerable attention has been aimed at understanding how it is that social work practitioners, charged with the responsibility to implement community care recommendations for older people, are doing so in a challenging care environment. How a practitioner's ideological frame of reference may impact on his/her practice interactions remains relatively unanswered. However, the course by which professional ideology matures and then directs practice would appear to both complex and multifaceted. The outcome is one that may render the professional both powerful and political, and one that may leave the older care recipient both vulnerable and stigmatized. This paper explores community care practice with older people, emphasizing the ideological underpinnings in practice and their influence on practice interactions. Social work practitioners working on older people's teams in two contrasting communities in England were interviewed to discuss their assessment and care management interactions with older people. Using grounded theory and Goffman's theoretical constructs within frame analysis, a conceptual model for practice emerged, reinforcing that practitioners' understandings of social events, anchored in government and professional discourse and individual perceptions about older people, enabled them to organize and influence the interaction to lead to a professionally determined outcome. The routine work of assessment and care management became very powerful in absence of strategic intention by the practitioner. A move to more strategic behaviour occurred when practice dilemmas required practitioners to intervene, informed by their professionally based values juxtaposed against those supported within official discourse. The findings provide an insight into how social work practitioners manage to deliver community care in a complex environment. The outcomes also reinforce the need for practitioners to develop an understanding of how they construct their social realities, as this may impact on the experience of community care for older people. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Oxford University Press | en_US |
dc.subject | Frame analysis | en_US |
dc.subject | Professional ideologies | en_US |
dc.subject | Social work interactions | en_US |
dc.subject | Front line policy implementation | en_US |
dc.subject | Community care | en_US |
dc.subject | Older people | en_US |
dc.title | Social workers in community care practice: Ideologies and interactions with older people | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcn059 | - |
pubs.organisational-data | /Brunel | - |
pubs.organisational-data | /Brunel/Brunel Staff by College/Department/Division | - |
pubs.organisational-data | /Brunel/Brunel Staff by College/Department/Division/College of Health and Life Sciences | - |
pubs.organisational-data | /Brunel/Brunel Staff by College/Department/Division/College of Health and Life Sciences/Dept of Clinical Sciences | - |
pubs.organisational-data | /Brunel/Brunel Staff by College/Department/Division/College of Health and Life Sciences/Dept of Clinical Sciences/Social Work | - |
pubs.organisational-data | /Brunel/Brunel Staff by Institute/Theme | - |
pubs.organisational-data | /Brunel/Brunel Staff by Institute/Theme/Institute of Environmental, Health and Societies | - |
pubs.organisational-data | /Brunel/Brunel Staff by Institute/Theme/Institute of Environmental, Health and Societies/Healthy Ageing | - |
pubs.organisational-data | /Brunel/University Research Centres and Groups | - |
pubs.organisational-data | /Brunel/University Research Centres and Groups/School of Health Sciences and Social Care - URCs and Groups | - |
pubs.organisational-data | /Brunel/University Research Centres and Groups/School of Health Sciences and Social Care - URCs and Groups/Brunel Institute for Ageing Studies | - |
pubs.organisational-data | /Brunel/University Research Centres and Groups/School of Health Sciences and Social Care - URCs and Groups/Brunel Institute of Cancer Genetics and Pharmacogenomics | - |
pubs.organisational-data | /Brunel/University Research Centres and Groups/School of Health Sciences and Social Care - URCs and Groups/Centre for Systems and Synthetic Biology | - |
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