Meaning and Values: Developing Empowering Practice: A Learning and Development Manual - Softcover

Moss, Bernard; Thompson, Neil

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1905541317 ISBN 13: 9781905541317

Publisher: Russell House Publishing Ltd, 2008

Synopsis

This manual is for professional training and academic teaching in the social work and healthcare professions. The book includes 36 exercises, case studies, and suggestions for further learning. It will stimulate debate and understanding, with discussions on: how values - sometimes personal, sometimes shared - are central to our lives, and the people we work with --- how these values help us make sense of our experiences and create meaning in our lives --- how to understand the value of spirituality, religion, and culture --- how the power that other people have over us can sometimes undermine our values and meaning making, and make us feel we have little or no control over our lives --- how the 'helping professions' can work in an empowering way with people who feel demoralized, helpless, and oppressed when struggling with their own values and sense of meaning.

About this title

About the Author

Bernard Moss is Professor of Social Work Education and Spirituality, and Director of the Centre for Spirituality and Health, at Staffordshire University. His recent publications include Values (RHP 2007) and Religion and Spirituality (RHP 2005). Neil Thompson is Professor of Social Work and Well-being at Liverpool Hope University, where he is Director of the Institute for Applied Social Sciences, and a Director of Avenue Consulting Ltd (www.avenueconsulting.co.uk), a company offering training and consultancy across the people professions that is, the helping professions plus management, supervision and leadership more broadly. He has over 100 publications to his name, including best-selling textbooks, papers in learned journals and training and open learning materials

Edition details

• Publisher: Russell House Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1905541317
• ISBN 13: 9781905541317
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• Number of pages: 120