Myron’s Maxims – this weeks discovery
I came across this concept last week – Myron’s Maxims – and thought I’d have a delve into it and do some thinking! Myron Rogers is an expert in organisational development and...
Tag: practice
Professional Identity – defining the box.
Professional identity in social work is complex and multifaceted, encompassing more than just desired traits or competence. It reflects not only the personal sense of self that a practitioner develops through experience...
Biology’s Challenge to Social Work – Embodying the Person-in-Environment Perspective
The Body’s Role in Social Work: Integrating the Person-in-Environment Perspective Dennis Saleeby is a bit of a hero of mine. Particularly his writing about strengths based practice. Definitely worth checking out –...
Strengths based practice – Verbs and Powerlifting meet social work.
Verbs As a solution focused social worker, I am interested in supporting sustainable positive change. However precisely what activity (in the broadest sense) do we offer as professionals to achieve this. To...
Forming our views; Rishi, social workers, and primates.
In the caring professions our experiences are the cornerstone of our practice, setting our moral compass and future decision-making processes (heuristics). Despite each individual experience being important our brains are designed to...
Language and Power in Social Work, a fresh perspective from the Philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein
Social work can be seen as an endeavour of attempting to grasp at another person’s reality. We assess people and families striving to be as faithful as possible. In this article I...
Solution Focused Gorillas
In 2006 Cadburys poisoned 37 people with Salmonella and the treasured British company was brought to it knees. Fined millions, reputation in the trash, hostile take over talk, how could it ever...
Forming our views; Rishi, social workers, and primates.
In the caring professions our experiences are the cornerstone of our practice, setting our moral compass and future decision-making processes (heuristics). Despite each individual experience being important our brains are designed to...
Liam Neeson, ethnicity, and oppression
Liam Neeson is in the press today (Tuesday 5th February 2019). You may have seen that he has told a reporter that during a difficult time in his life he had walked...
Part of the problem or part of the solution…..?
When I was a practitioner and then a social work manager I was fond, when times were difficult, of asking myself, “Do I want to be part of the problem or part...