Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Chapter 1 Matters of Professional Identity and Social Work
Stephen A. Webb
PART 1 Key concepts and perspectives
Chapter 2 Perspectives on Professional Identity: the changing world of the social worker
Mike Dent
Chapter 3 What is professional identity and how do social workers acquire it?
Fran Wiles
Chapter 4 Materiality, Performance and the Making of Professional Identity
Torben Elgaard Jensen
Chapter 5 Constructing the social, constructing social work
Elizabeth Harlow
PART 2 Location, context and workplace culture
Chapter 6 Vocation and professional identity: Social workers at home and abroad
Mark Erickson and Jem Price
Chapter 7 Risk work in the formation of the 'professional' in child protection social work
Emily Keddell and Tony Stanley
Chapter 8 Identity formation, scientific rationality and embodied knowledge in child welfare
Melissa Hardesty
Chapter 9 Field, Capital and Professional Identity: Social Work in Health Care
Liz Beddoe
Chapter 10 Interprofessional collaboration: strengthening or weakening social work identity?
Julia Emprechtinger and Peter Voll
Chapter 11 Commitment in the making of professional identity
Stewart Collins
Chapter 12 Professional identity in the care and upbringing of children: towards a praxis of residential child care
Mark Smith
PART 3 Professional education, socialisation and readiness for practice
Chapter 13 Shaping Identity? The Professional Socialisation of Social Work Students
Julia Wheeler
Chapter 14 Credible performances: Affect and professional identity
Jadwiga Leigh
Chapter 15 Making Professional Identity: Narrative Work and Fateful Moments
Maura Daly and Martin Kettle
Chapter 16 Professional Identity as a Matter of Concern
Stephen A. Webb
References
Index
Biography
Stephen A. Webb is Professor of Social Work at Glasgow Caledonian University, Scotland. Previous to this he was Professor of Human Sciences and Director of the Institute for Social Inclusion and Well-being, University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia and Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Sussex, UK.
'This book is a very substantial contribution to the neglected topic of social work and its professional identity. Whilst retaining a clear and insightful focus, this collection ranges far and wide to incorporate key critical insights from a wide range of expert and knowledgeable commentators. This is an exciting addition to our underpopulated literature on professionalism in social work' - Professor Roger Smith, Professor of Social Work in the School of Applied Social Sciences, Fellow of the Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing, Durham University
