For many service users and professionals in the field of social work, shame is an ongoing part of their daily experience.
Providing an in-depth examination of the complex phenomena of shame and humiliation, this book sets out key contextual issues and theoretical approaches to comprehend shame and its relevance within social work. It provides a broad understanding of shame, its underlying social and political contexts and its effects on service users and professionals.
The book uses innovative international scholarship and includes theoretical considerations, as well as empirical findings within the field of social work. It shows the importance of sensitive, reflective and relationship-oriented practice based on a better understanding of the complexity of shame.
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Part One: The Concept of Shame from Different Perspectives
Making Sense of Shame Theory: A Possible Psychosocial Structure ~ Elisabeth Frost
The sociology of shame ~ Sighard Neckel
Shame as an Anthropological and Historical and Social Emotion ~ Veronika Magyar-Haas
Part Two: Shame and Service Users
Poverty as an Attack on Subjectivity: The Case of Shame, A Social Work Perspective ~ Holger Schoneville
Interactions of Shame: Violence against Children and Residential Care ~ Marie Demant and Friederike Lorenz
Emotional Labour in Social Work Practice and the Production of Shame in Service Users’ ~ Carsten Schröder
Part Three: Shame and Social Workers
Shame Regulation as Organisational Control: Evoking, Containing, and Diverting Shame to Create Compliance ~ Matthew Gibson
Claim, Blame, Shame: How Risk Undermines Authenticity in Social Work ~ Mark Hardy
Shame, Mistakes and Reflective Practice in Social Work ~ Alessandro Sicora
Despre autor
Alessandro Sicora is Lecturer of Social Work (Methods and techniques) at the University of Calabria and the University Ca’Foscari in Venice and undertakes research on reflective practice and comparative social policy.
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