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Title: ART, CREATIVITY AND IMAGINATION IN SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE
By: Prue Chamberlayne (Editor), Martin Smith (Editor)
Format: Hardback

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ISBN 10: 0415465087
ISBN 13: 9780415465083
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Publisher: TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
Pub. date: 27 November, 2008
Pages: 172
Description: Workers feel most satisfied while service users and communities are more likely to benefit when creative thinking can be applied to practice dilemmas. Drawing on contributions from Canada, England and Utrecht, this book illustrates the transforming effect of creatively applied thinking to social problems.
Synopsis: Harnessing the inspiration available from the arts and the imagination brings to life sensitive and effective social work practice. Workers feel most satisfied while service users and communities are more likely to benefit when creative thinking can be applied to practice dilemmas. Drawing on contributions from Canada, England and Utrecht this book illustrates the transforming effect of creatively applied thinking to social problems. The first part of the book considers how use of the self can be enhanced by analytic reflection and application to difficulties facing individuals and communities. The second part shows psychodynamic theory to be a valuable aid when thinking about issues faced by social workers facing threats and accusations, therapeutic work with children and restorative youth justice. The third part of the book considers the implications of working with the arts in community settings - an ex-mining community in North West England, the Tate Gallery in London and the 'cultural capital' of Liverpool.Taken as a whole these chapters combine to inspire and provoke thought of how the arts and the imagination can be used creativity to help service users confronted by problems with living and the workers who attempt to get alongside them to think about these. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Social Work Practice.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Routledge
Returns: Returnable
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