Pride and Shame in Child and Family Social Work: Emotions and the Search for Humane Practice

by Matthew Gibson

Book Overview

What role does emotion play in child and family social work practice?

In this book, researcher Matthew Gibson reviews the role of shame and pride in social work, providing invaluable new insights from the first study undertaken into the role of these emotions within professional practice. The author demonstrates how these emotions, which are embedded within the very structures of society but experienced as individual phenomena, are used...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1447344812
• ISBN13: 9781447344810
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Policy Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"