Social Work: the Social Psychological Approach

1. Front Matter

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2. The Social Psychological Approach

   1. The Social Psychological Approach

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      Pages 1-7

3. The Nature of Social Psychology

   1. The Character of Social Psychology

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      Pages 9-21

   2. Relationships

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      Pages 22-35

   3. Identity

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      Pages 36-52

   4. Groups

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      Pages 53-70

   5. Environment

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      Pages 71-85

   6. Personal and Social Change

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      Pages 86-100

   7. Central Tenets of SPA Explanation and Analysis

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      Pages 101-106

4. The Nature of Social Work

   1. The Structure of Social Work

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      Pages 107-126

   2. BASW and Social Work

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      Pages 127-138

   3. Demands and Skills

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      Pages 139-151

5. Theory Use

   1. Levels of Analysis in Social Work

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      Pages 153-160

   2. How to Use a Theory

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      Pages 161-170

6. The SPA in Practice

   1. Disablement

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      Pages 171-186

   2. Group Homes

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      Pages 187-204

   3. Child Battering

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      Pages 205-216

   4. Community Work

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      Pages 217-227

   5. Mental Illness

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      Pages 228-238

   6. Use of the SPA by the Client

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      Pages 239-246

This book was created to describe the social psychological approach (SPA) to the social work process. It has long been asserted that social workers need to understand and use social psychology in their practice. Yet the literature avail· able to social workers has been limited. There have been no texts on social psychology specifically designed for social workers. Instead, social workers have been presented with various forms of individual psychology and macrosociol­ ogy. There is, however, an important contribution which social psychology, the study of the individual in a social context, can make to the social work process. This contribution is the central concern of this book. Consequently, the book is seen as filling a fundamental gap in the existing social work literature. The structure of the book is dictated by the belief that social workers and social psychologists should collaborate in evolving a social psychological model of social work practice. Such a model, the result of collaboration between a social worker and a social psychologist, is presented here. The book is addressed not simply to teachers and students of social work but also, specifically, to social work practitioners and to social psychologists besides all those who deal with social work problems. In addressing a wide audience, it is important to estab­ lish a lingua franca: social workers need to understand the basics of social psychology and social psychologists must understand the basis of social work practice.

• Attribution
• Persuasion
• character
• communication
• social psychology

• Department of Psychology, University of Surrey, UK

  Glynis M. Breakwell

• Social Work Department, Broadmoor Hospital, UK

  Colin Rowett

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