Reviews : Achieving Change in Social Work
| DOI | 10.1177/026455058202900124 |
| Date | 01 March 1982 |
| Author | Anne Russell |
| Published date | 01 March 1982 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
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Social
Work
and
Social
Control
PETER
R.
DAY
Tavistock
Publications,
1981;
223
pp;
£4.50
pb.
The
author
addresses
himself
to
the
continuing
debate
about
the
compatibility
of
care
and
control
within
social
work
practice.
From
his
premise
that
social
work
is
a
political
activity,
he
discusses
a
wide
variety
of
relevant
concepts,
including
the
use
of
authority,
the
dilemmas
of
social
control
theories,
assumed
ideologies,
indeed
the
very
para-
doxes
that
prescribe
the
nature
of
social
work
itself.
The
main
body
of
the
book
is
theore-
tical
and
includes,
amongst
surveys
of
appropriate
literature,
Day’s
own
research
on
the
expectations
and
pur-
poses
of
probation,
and
attitudes
to,
and
experience
of
the
exercise
of
authority.
I
felt
that
Day’s
own
ideas
do
not
arti-
culate
themselves
clearly
and
this
reflects
an
over
optimistic
attempt
to
cover
too
many
significant
concepts
in
such
a
limited
space.
However,
several
pertinent
observations
are
worthy
of
note
includ-
ing
the
need
for
differential
working
methods,
canvassing
the
views
of
the
consumers
of
social
work
and
bridging
the
chasm
between
social
work
teaching
and
its
practice.
Despite
the
book’s
limitations,
it
leaves
the
reader
questioning
his
or
her
own
ideology,
by
asking
rather
than
answering
questions,
which
may
be
what
the
author
intended.
JANET
WALKER
Lecturer
in
Social
Work,
University
of
Newcastle
upon
Tyne
Achieving
Change
in
Social
Work
JOHN
AND
MARY
COLLINS
Heinemann
Educational
Books;
pp
106;
£2.95.
Written
by
two
erstwhile
probation
officers,
now
full-time
academics,
this
addition
to
the
Community
Care
Prac-
tice
Handbook
Series
looks
at
the
social
work
process
from
a
behaviourist
view-
point.
It
manages
to
add
warmth
and
humanity
to
a
technique
which
may
at
other
times
be
in
danger
of
rejection
by
social
workers
as
altogether
too
clinic-
ally
Skinnerian.
The
book
promises
no
easy
short
cuts
and
the
purist
behavioural
modifier
may
well
feel
that
by
so
well
illustrating
cir-
cularity
between
thought,
feeling
and
behaviour,
the
authors
are
in
danger
of
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