Dementia : new skills for social workers / edited by Alan Chapman and Mary Marshall.
Contributor(s): Marshall, Mary
| Chapman, Alan.
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BookSeries: Case studies for practice.Publisher: London : Jessica Kingsley, 1993Description: 168 p. : ill. ; 21 cm + pbk.ISBN: 1853021423.Subject(s): Psychiatric social work | DementiaDDC classification: 362.2 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 362.2 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00075131 |
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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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Mary Marshall -- New trends and dilemmas in working with people with dementia and their carers / Mary Marshall -- Psychotherapeutic intervention with individuals and families where dementia is pesent / Iain Gardner -- The use of the past / Faith Gibson -- Systemic family intervention / Joanne Sherlock and Iain Gardner -- Groupwork / Alan Chapman -- Issues arising from two contrasting life styles / Katrina Myers and Philip Seed -- Empowerment / Alan Chapman -- Assessment and care management of people with dementia and their carers / Katrina Myers and J. Crawford -- New skills for social workers / Mary Marshall, Jan Stringer, Anne Marie Wright.