Digital Connection in Health and Social Work: Perspectives from Covid-19 - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1914171926 ISBN 13: 9781914171925

Publisher: Routledge, 2022

Synopsis

This book focusses on the move to digitally mediated forms of teaching, learning and practice during Covid-19 and offers a series of case studies which showcase positive practices during this time.

Education, Health and Social Work services have all been at the forefront of national debate since the first UK lockdown in March 2020. Schools, Colleges and Higher Education institutions moved rapidly to online delivery, with educators, parents, practice learning partners and students alike compelled to adapt to online connection, disrupting previous norms and forcing a rapid acquisition of new skills.

In health and social care practice, there has been a similar move to online delivery, whilst maintaining consistency of service and support. The pandemic also coincided with the recommendations of the national Digital Capabilities for Social Work project, commissioned by Health Education England, which produced a prescient framework for professional practice.

This book showcases innovative ways in which practice and education have responded to the challenges of Covid 19. With ongoing debate about planning for the next pandemic, as well as adapting to the post Covid landscape, the book is a valuable resource for all those involved in health and social work education and practice.

About this title

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.

Dr Michael Fanner works an applied social researcher in various areas of health visiting policy and practice.

Michael is also a clinician and has previously worked in higher education on a number of health and social care professional programmes. Michael is passionate about ensuring health and social care delivery and interventions are evidence-based, and are informed by those who work in practice and those who receives services.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1914171926
• ISBN 13: 9781914171925
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 170
• Editor: Turner Denise, Fanner Michael