Social care : learning from practice / edited by Noel Howard, Denise Lyons.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Overview of social care practice -- 1.Learning from stories of practice. Denise Lyons and Noel Howard -- 2.The Irish Association of Social Care Workers. Noel Howard -- 3.Social care education and the Irish Association of social care educators. Denise Lyons -- Stories from practice management -- 4.There\'s no place like home: care and aftercare. \'Keith King\' -- 5.The impossible task: which wolf will win? Maurice Fenton -- 6.Doing small things with great kindness: the role of relationship, kindness and love in understanding and changing behaviour. John Digney and Max Smart -- 7.The language of social care. Pauline Clarke Orohoe -- 8.An approach to family assessments. Angela Feeney -- 8.Achieving independent living for people with disabilities. Aoife Killeen -- 10.The stranger in the mirror: dealing with dementia in the intellectual disability sector. Iseult Paul -- 11.It\'s all about the \'I\': self-understanding in social care practice. Frank Mulville -- 12.Precious cargo: focusing as a practice approach. Derek McDonnell -- 13.Waiting: avoiding the temptation to jump in. Des Mooney -- 14.Containment: not always a dirty word. Maria O\'Sullivan -- 15.Placing therapeutic relationshops at the heart of our work. Laura Behan -- 16.Therapetuic alliance in practice. Helen Buggle -- 17.A house for one: single-occupancy residential units: futher isolation of a progressive response? Niall Reynods -- 18.Supporting those who self-injure in social care settings. David Williams -- 19.A A, B, C approach to challenging behaviour: a reflective tool for service users and social care workers -- 20.Learning to practise: the role of practice placement in social care. Lillian Byrne-Lancaster -- 21.Supporting a team to direct and lead change in social care. Claire Leonard -- 22.Supervision: a reflective guide. Fiona Doyle -- 23.The significance of the small things: teaching independent living skills to young people in residential care. Kathy D\'Arcy -- 24.Thoughts on the good enough worker. Paddy Ormond -- 25.The good manager: moral discernment and courage. John Molloy.

This multi-contributory book is the first social care text written exclusively by those in practice, management and academia. It provides a wealth of practical knowledge from the experiences of social care workers who have worked with different groups in diverse settings, including children, those with disabilities and the elderly.