Social and Caring Professions in European Welfare States : : Policies, Services and Professional Practices / / ed. by Björn Blom, Lars Evertsson, Marek Perlinski.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol UP/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• MitwirkendeR: Antoft, Rasmus,; Barry, Jim,; Beddoe, Liz,; Bell, Linda,; Berg, Elisabeth,; Blom, Björn,; Chandler, John,; Ellison, Marion,; Evertsson, Lars,; Faliszek, Krystyna,; Hanberger, Anders,; Heggen, Kåre,; Høgsbro, Kjeld,; Isaksson, Joakim,; Julkunen, Ilse,; Kalman, Hildur,; Karvinen-Niinikoski, Synnöve,; Lindgren, Lena,; Mandrysz, Witold,; Nissen, Maria Appel,; Nothdurfter, Urban,; Nygren, Lennart,; Olesen, Søren Peter,; Pawlas-Czyz, Sabina,; Perlinski, Marek,; Rexvid, Devin,; Ruch, Gillian,; Terum, Lars Inge,; Thornquist, Eline,; Tsui, Ming-sum,; Törnqvist, Daniel,; Vindegg, Jorunn,; Willumsen, Elisabeth,; Wódz, Kazimiera,
• HerausgeberIn: Blom, Björn,; Evertsson, Lars,; Perlinski, Marek,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 1 Black and White

This collection provides new insights about current welfare professions in a number of European countries. Focusing on research representing different types of European welfare states, including the Scandinavian and the Continental, the book offers in-depth understandings of professionals’ everyday...

Table of Contents

• Front Matter
• Contents
• List of tables and figures
• Notes on contributors
• Preface
• European social and caring professions in transition
• Knowledge, reflection and identity in the social and caring welfare professions
• The impact of education on professional identity
• The construction of professional identity in social work: experience, analytical reflection and time
• Professional supervision and professional autonomy
• Control, regulation and management
• Reconfiguring professional autonomy? The case of social work in the UK
• Auditing and accountability
• State regulation of the social work profession: an example from Poland
• Collaboration, conflict and competition
• Professional boundary crossing and interprofessional knowledge development
• The formation of a profession: the case of physiotherapy in Norway
• The professional development of social work in Poland after 1989
• Professional dilemmas of defining a problem: the case of addiction treatment
• Challenges of municipal community work
• Assessment, negotiation and decision making
• On the unnoticed aspects of professional practice
• Can complexity in welfare professionals’ work be handled with standardised professional knowledge?
• Who is viewed as client by social workers and general practitioners?
• Activation work as professional practice: complexities and professional boundaries at the street level of employment policy implementation
• Social and caring professions in European welfare states: trends and challenges
• Index