Hi
I'm a first year MA SW student looking to do my dissertation on social workers views, attitudes and experiences of direct payments. I want to compare social workers opinions in two different sw teams (maybe older adults and learning disability) in a london borough. Could anyone recommend any reading around this topic, i know it is relevantly new and so not much has been written with regards to sw attitudes.
Thanks!
stresshead: Hi I'm a first year MA SW student looking to do my dissertation on social workers views, attitudes and experiences of direct payments. I want to compare social workers opinions in two different sw teams (maybe older adults and learning disability) in a london borough. Could anyone recommend any reading around this topic, i know it is relevantly new and so not much has been written with regards to sw attitudes. Thanks!
theres some govt funded study that gives (amongst other things) 10? reasons why direct payments were not introduced effectively by social work - one of which is that social work didnt like relinquishing the power.
My diss was originally on social work attitudes as well (diff subject tho) and theres hardly any on most things - might be worth broadening it out to service users , carers and other professionals as well - will look better for the markers as well who love a bit of service user input
Good luck - that's very similar to what I did my dissertation on - well, I wrote about barriers to the extension of direct payments and one of the large barriers was social workers' attitudes!
There is a lot of literature around about it.
I can see if I can dig out some of the reading but bear in mind, for me, it was a long while ago and there is probably much more up to day literature to read about it. I presume you've searched the key words on the Social Care Online database...