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Morals, rights and practice in the human services : effective and fair decision-making in health, social care and criminal justice / Marie Connolly and Tony Ward.

By: Connolly, Marie.
Contributor(s): Ward, Tony, 1954 Mar. 17-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : Jessica Kingsley, 2007Description: 200 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781843104865; 1843104865.Subject(s): Social service -- Sociological aspects | Social service -- Sociological aspects | Human rightsDDC classification: 361.32
Contents:
Part one: Exploring the territory -- Understanding Human Rights -- Human Rights and Culture -- Values, Rights and the State -- Part two: Navigating rights and practice -- Navigating Rights across the Life Course -- Losing Rights: Offenders on the Margins -- Claiming Rights: Disability and Human Rights -- Contesting Rights: Cultural Values and Children's Rights -- Respecting Rights: Service-User Rights in Child Welfare -- Part three: Integrating rights-based ideas -- Rights-Based Values in Practice Frameworks -- Embedding Rights-Based Ideas -- Concluding thoughts.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Work within the human services is increasingly influenced by rights-based thinking, and this book offers advice for the practitioner on how to translate abstract rights theory into their everyday practice.

The book outlines the theory that underpins human rights and outlines the ethical debates and dilemmas that frequently surround them. It also provides a practical model that outlines how to embed human rights theory within practice and the professional decision-making process. Drawing extensively on real-life case examples, the book includes chapters on rights-based work with different client groups including offenders, people with intellectual disabilities, immigrants and refugees, and children and families.

This important book will be a useful source of guidance and advice for professionals working across the human services, including those in social care, health and justice settings.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-193) and indexes.

Part one: Exploring the territory -- Understanding Human Rights -- Human Rights and Culture -- Values, Rights and the State -- Part two: Navigating rights and practice -- Navigating Rights across the Life Course -- Losing Rights: Offenders on the Margins -- Claiming Rights: Disability and Human Rights -- Contesting Rights: Cultural Values and Children's Rights -- Respecting Rights: Service-User Rights in Child Welfare -- Part three: Integrating rights-based ideas -- Rights-Based Values in Practice Frameworks -- Embedding Rights-Based Ideas -- Concluding thoughts.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Preface (p. 9)
  • Part 1 Exploring the Territory (p. 13)
  • Chapter 1 Understanding Human Rights (p. 15)
  • Chapter 2 Human Rights and Culture (p. 36)
  • Chapter 3 Values, Rights and the State (p. 51)
  • Part 2 Navigating Rights and Practice (p. 63)
  • Chapter 4 Navigating Rights across the Life Course (p. 65)
  • Chapter 5 Losing Rights: Offenders on the Margins (p. 81)
  • Chapter 6 Claiming Rights: Disability and Human Rights (p. 96)
  • Chapter 7 Contesting Rights: Cultural Values and Children's Rights (p. 113)
  • Chapter 8 Respecting Rights: Service-user Rights in Child Welfare (p. 126)
  • Part 3 Integrating Rights-based Ideas (p. 143)
  • Chapter 9 Rights-based Values in Practice Frameworks (p. 145)
  • Chapter 10 Embedding Rights-based Ideas (p. 162)
  • Concluding thoughts (p. 179)
  • References (p. 183)
  • Subject Index (p. 195)
  • Author Index (p. 198)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Marie Connolly, PhD, DipSocWk, has been Associate Professor and Director at the Te Awatea Violence Research Centre at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. She is currently Chief Social Worker within the New Zealand government. She has published extensively in her area of scholarship, and has written six related books, including Culture and Child Protection: Reflexive Responses (Jessica Kingsley Publishers). She has a social work background in statutory child welfare. Tony Ward, PhD, DipClinPsyc, is Professor of Clinical Psychology at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He has worked as a clinical psychologist and an academic in a number of settings, and has a small private practice. He has written over 200 publications, including ten books, primarily in the area of forensic psychology.

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