Providing an in-depth examination of the complex experiences of shame and stigma for social work practitioners and service users, this book sets out key contextual issues and theoretical approaches to understanding shame and demonstrates how social workers can ameliorate its impact through sensitive, reflective and relationship-based practice.
It uses innovative international scholarship and includes examples of writing by practitioners which demonstrate how they can trade shame for resilience in supportive organisational and policy contexts, and challenge service user shame in their interventions.
It uses innovative international scholarship and includes examples of writing by practitioners which demonstrate how they can trade shame for resilience in supportive organisational and policy contexts, and challenge service user shame in their interventions.