What is it about?
This paper explores how working within a risk culture impacts upon social work practice. It also promotes the use of phenomenology as a way to make sense of social work and to refocus onto the meanings that service users bring to their own experience.
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Why is it important?
This paper argues for social work to abandon its preoccupation with risk but to look for meaning.
Perspectives
I've wanted to write this paper for a while as it tries to explain how I practiced as a social worker by exploring my phenomenological underpinnings.
Dr Joe Smeeton
University of Sheffield
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This page is a summary of: Embodied Social Work Practice Within Risk Society, Journal of Social Work, July 2019, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1468017319860800.
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