Constructive Social Work: Towards a New Practice

By Nigel R. Parton, P. O’Byrne. 2000

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Knowledge and Reasoning in Social Work: Educating for Humane Judgement (2005, background): “It is frequently asserted that social workers operate in uncertain ter rain where there may be competing versions and interpretations of events and where they depend on, often unreliable, testimony of various partial witnesses and where forensic and conventionally scientific evidence is rarely avail”
The place of the officer-offender relationship in assisting offenders to desist from crime (2005, background): “Others have explored the significance of narratives and their reconstruction in other forms of social work (for example, Parton and O’Byrne, 2000).”
Helping others or a rewarding career? Investigating student motivations to train as social workers in England (2012, background): “While social work has a dual focus of ‘care and control’ (Parton and O’Byrne, 2000), the essentially benevolent goals of social work (Clark, 2006) suggest a good fit between students’ motivations and the ‘discipline goals’.”
Emotional Intelligence, Emotion and Social Work: Context, Characteristics, Complications and Contribution (2006, background): “These comments fit into a much wider debate about the recent direction of social work (Jordan, 2001; Parton and O’Byrne, 2000).”