Captures the unique moment in time created by the Covid-19 pandemic and uses this as a lens to explore contemporary issues for social work education and practice.

The 2020 coronavirus pandemic provided an unprecedented moment of global crisis, which placed health and social care at the forefront of the national agenda. The lockdown, social distancing measures and rapid move to online working created multiple challenges and safeguarding concerns for social work education and practice, whilst the unparalleled death rate exacerbated pre-existing problems with communicating openly about death and bereavement. Many of these issues were already at the surface of social work practice and education and this book examines how the health crisis has exposed these, whilst acting as a potential catalyst for change.

This book acts as a testament to the historical moment whilst providing a forum for drawing together discussion from contemporary educators, practitioners and users of social work services.

About the Author

Dr Denise Turner is an experienced, registered Social Worker and currently works as a Senior Lecturer in Social Work.

Her research interests encompass digital practices and death, loss and bereavement. She was Chair of the Advisory Group for the national Digital Capabilities project for Social Work, delivered by SCIE and BASW and is interested in the positive challenges of digital media. She has authored a book on parents' experiences of the professional response to sudden, unexpected child death and is currently involved with research focused on bereavement and grief resulting from Covid19.

Reviews

.... Overall, this book presents a useful volume of first reflections on a time that will mark many people's lives. Deeper analytical work will follow, social work practice and education will change, and people will learn to be at ease with novel forms of distant communication. But Turner's edited volume adds diverse and key voices to that beginning debate. It is well worth a read!

-- Professor Jonathan Parker * British Journal of Social Work *



Book Information
ISBN 9781913453619
Author Denise Turner
Format Paperback
Page Count 112
Imprint Critical Publishing Ltd
Publisher Critical Publishing Ltd
Weight(grams) 183g
Dimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 6mm