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: social work
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...
Social Work Change, Priti Patel and Gauss Linear and non-linear Problems
Written by George Bull…. Thousands of words, column inches and twitter feeds have been spilled out by our profession paining over what is going wrong; poverty, a ‘crowbarred in’ care review and...
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...
Motivational Interviewing – be like Columbo
Remember the television show Columbo starring Peter Falk? The fictional Columbo was a detective who solved murder mysteries – hugely popular in the 1970’s. Having recently used this analogy with a group...
Podcast Show Notes: Stephen talks to George Bull about risk in light of the murder of Arthur
Social Work Shorts (Episode 25): Insights #8 In the latest episode of the Social Work Podcast Insights series Stephen and George talk about risk in light of the murder of Arthur and...
Efficiency, Slack and Social Work – Featuring Pareto, Cost Co and Privatisation.
There is a war raging in UK social work presently. To name a few of the various battle fronts – the COVID recovery, rising inequality, the lurking shadow of increased privatization and...