Professional Identity and Social Work
Professional Identity and Social Work How are identities formed among social workers, many of whom perform complex, challenging and ambiguous public sector functions on a regular basis? This book,…
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Professional Identity and Social Work
How are identities formed among social workers, many of whom perform complex, challenging and ambiguous public sector functions on a regular basis? This book, the first of its kind in the field, examines professional identity in relation to social work by asking how practitioners think of themselves as a social worker, a professional self-concept often entangled in a range of relations, beliefs, values and experiences.Bringing together the perspectives of an internationally renowned group of specialists, the collection addresses a range of issues associated with professional identity construction and being professional in the context of a rapidly changing inter-professional environment. Why does identity come to matter for professional social work?
It introduces new concepts to social work, including materiality, enactment, performance, affect, entanglement, capital and worth,