Advocacy skills for health and social care professionals / Neil Bateman.

By:

Bateman, Neil, 1955-

Contributor(s):

Bateman, Neil, 1955-. Advocacy Skills: A handbook for human service professionals

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London : J. Kingsley, 2000.Description: 1 online resource (185 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

1853028657
9781853028656
1417563494
9781417563494
1846421578
9781846421570
1280407859
9781280407857
9786610407859
6610407851

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Advocacy skills for health and social care professionals.DDC classification:

361.3 21

LOC classification:

HV40 .B329 2000eb

NLM classification:

2000 M-907
W 85

Online resources:

Click here to access online

Contents:

COVER; Advocacy Skills for Health and Social Care Professionals; Contents; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Part 1 Contexts; 1 What Advocacy is, Why it Matters and Why It Happens; 2 Ethical Principles for Effective Advocacy; 3 Advocacy in Action; Part 2 The Advocate's Skills; 4 Introduction to Part 2; 5 Interviewing; 6 Assertiveness and Force; 7 Negotiation; 8 Self-management; 9 Legal Knowledge and Research; 10 Litigation; 11 A Structure for Advocacy; 12 What Next?; SUBJECT INDEX; AUTHOR INDEX.

Summary: Most professionals working in health or social care will be required to act as advocates as part of their work. A social worker or community nurse may need to obtain extra benefits or a particular service for a client; a housing official may need to help a tenant whose benefit has been delayed thus placing them at risk of homelessness; a voluntary body may decide to challenge a statement of special educational needs for a child. This is a practical guide to advocacy skills specifically written for those in the health and social care professions. Neil Bateman examines the function of advocacy w.

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Previous edition: Advocacy Skills: A handbook for human service professionals, 1995.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Most professionals working in health or social care will be required to act as advocates as part of their work. A social worker or community nurse may need to obtain extra benefits or a particular service for a client; a housing official may need to help a tenant whose benefit has been delayed thus placing them at risk of homelessness; a voluntary body may decide to challenge a statement of special educational needs for a child. This is a practical guide to advocacy skills specifically written for those in the health and social care professions. Neil Bateman examines the function of advocacy w.