1st Edition

The Professional Task in Welfare Practice

By Peter Nokes Copyright 1967
    152 Pages
    by Routledge

    152 Pages
    by Routledge

    First Published in 1998. This is Volume VIII of an eighteen volume library of Sociology on Public Policy, Welfare and Social Work and includes a study on the professional task in welfare practice. The book covers objectives of the welfare professions and gives guidance in this vocation, techniques, training and skills and comments on the themes of reassurance, faith, political commitment and reform, as well as the concept of treatment in non-medical settings.

    Chapter 1 Objectives in the Welfare Professions; Chapter 2 Profession and Vocation in Welfare Practice; Chapter 3 Techniques and Skills in the Welfare Professions; Chapter 4 Attitudes to Information in the Welfare Professions: the Themes of Reassurance and Faith; Chapter 5 Attitudes to Information in the Social Sciences: the Themes of Political Commitment; Chapter 6 The Concept of Treatment in Non-Medical Settings; Chapter 7 Government and Training in the Welfare Professions;

    Biography

    Peter Nokes