Dementia : new skills for social workers
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Dementia : new skills for social workers
（Case studies for practice, 5）
Jessica Kingsley Publishers, c1993
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Working with people with dementia and their carers is one of the most exciting fields of social work. The dramatic increase in numbers makes it a high priority for health, local authorities, private and voluntary agencies. At the same time, the field offers constantly changing approaches and improving techniques. Multidisciplinary work is needed to such an extent that it challenges all the recent legislation and guidance on community care; new models of services are being tried all the time and it is so free from protocol and procedure that imaginative practice is still very possible. This book, by leading professionals in the field, explores the new skills needed. These include counselling, the creative use of the past, groupwork, empowerment - particularly important in a low status field such as this, family therapy, care management, and network analysis. Also covered is multidisciplinary work. The book is intended to build on what readers already know, while exploring new dimensions of work in the field and introducing new ideas.
Table of Contents
Introduction, Mary Marshall, Director, Dementia Services Development Centre, University of Stirling. 1. New trends and dilemmas in working with people with dementia and their carers, Mary Marshall. 2. Psychotherapeutic intervention with individuals and families where dementia is present, Iain Gardner, Melbourne University. 3. The use of the past, Faith Gibson, Reader in Social Work, University of Ulster at Jordanstown. 4. Systemic family intervention, Joanne Sherlock, Regional Aged Care Assessment Team, Melbourne and Iain Gardner. 5. Groupwork, Alan Chapman, training officer, Dementia Services Development Centre, University of Stirling 6. Issues arising from two contrasting life styles, Katrina Myers, training officer (elderly), Central Regional Council Social Work Department and Philip Seed, Department of Social Work, University of Dundee. 7. Empowerment, Alan Chapman. 8. Assessment and care management of people with dementia and their carers, J Crawford, Project Leader of the EPIC care management project and Katrina Myers. 9. New skills for social workers, Mary Marshall, Jan Stringer, Lothian Regional Council Social Work Department and Anne Marie Wright, Holy Corner Tuesday Club, Edinburgh.
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