What is it about?
This article explores how conflict within an agency can create atmospheres of mistrust and suspicion. By using Margaret Wetherell's theory of affective practice, this article unpicks how such issues can create inter-agency trouble between different practitioners and managers.
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Why is it important?
This article is important as it sheds light on internal agency politics and provides information about what social workers experience when they are situated in an organisation that struggles to support and care for its own staff, let alone families it is meant to be providing a service to.
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This article is unique because it uses a different method to explore conflict and in doing so it analyses the micro behaviours of different people within the agency.
Jadwiga Leigh
University of Sheffield
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This page is a summary of: Atmospheres of mistrust and suspicion: Theorising on conflict and affective practice in a child protection social work agency, Qualitative Social Work, May 2017, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1473325017707028.
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