Full Description
This comprehensive Research Handbook explores how the social work and social values of social justice, equality and human rights underpin leadership in the sector and beyond. Whilst this is a strength of the sector, realising such values raises a series of tensions and complexities within the contemporary context of social work and social care.
Bringing together over 60 renowned experts from Europe, North America and Australia, the Research Handbook provides key insights into the distinct aspects of leadership within social work and care. It examines how leadership can be strengthened at the professional, organizational and system levels and what enables equity and inclusion to be demonstrated within policy and practice. Chapters delve into leadership within different contexts, including public and community organisations, collaboration with other sectors, and the opportunity and challenge of new technologies. Several focus on the experiences of those who are often marginalised from leadership opportunities on the basis of indigeneity, race, gender and sexuality or having their own lived experience of social work and social care services. The Handbook concludes with recommendations of how leadership can be developed, supported and practiced to better reflect the underpinning values of the sector and inspire more human-centred practice.
This Research Handbook is an essential tool for students and academics in social work, social care and organisational leadership. Professional leaders within social work and social care organizations will also benefit from its practical insights and up-to-date research.
Contents
Contents
1 Introduction: leadership in social work and social care 1
Robin Miller, Caroline Jackson, Catherine Mangan and Helen Dickinson
PART I PROFESSIONAL AND PRACTICE LEADERSHIP
2 Does leadership impact on care outcomes for service users in social care
contexts? 21
Axel Kaehne, Aniekan Ekpenyong and Julie Feather
3 Leadership in and through the voluntary and community sector: a state-of-
the-art review 38
Carol Jacklin-Jarvis and James Rees
4 Strengthening research in social work practice: how a professional
association can contribute to the leadership of social work research 51
Sue Gillieatt, Bindi Bennett, Lynette Joubert, Louise Whitaker, Wilma
Peters and Fiona Oates
5 The contribution of codependency to leadership challenges in social work
and mindfulness as a path forward 63
S. Colby Peters
6 Conflicts and synergies: dualities in professional leadership of social care 76
Zsuzsanna Antal, Zoltán Cserháti, Éva Krenyácz and Éva Révész
7 Learning from Bourdieu: social work and leadership 90
Luke Geoghegan
PART II ORGANISATIONAL AND SYSTEM LEADERSHIP
8 Leading across boundaries: system leadership and social care 103
Richard Humphries
9 Independent Chairs of Safeguarding Adults Boards: system leadership in
practice 113
Adi Cooper OBE and Michael Preston-Shoot
10 Boundary spanning leadership: an essential praxis within social care 127
Lisa Smith and Dez Holmes
11 Leading and participating: examining collaborative leadership 139
Lynn Berger, Susan Evans, Caroline Lambert, Erica Russ, Melissa
Petrakis, Louise Whitaker, Caroline Walters, Liz Reimer, Mark
Woolven and Monica Short
12 The role of value-based leadership in multi-agency safeguarding responses
to child sexual exploitation 152
Gareth Addidle, Sarah Shorrock and Joyce Liddle
13 Advancing the case for adaptive leadership in human services 164
Mary Burns, Linda Lausell Bryant and Marc Ross Manashil
14 Leadership and automation: towards an understanding of the leader role
when implementing robots and AI in social care 177
Maria Forsgren, Andreas Stenling and Susanne Tafvelin
PART III COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP
15 I lead, and you follow: challenging concepts of leadership in co-production 190
Mel Hughes and Lynn Laidlaw
16 'We're in it together': generating opportunities for leadership through
co-produced research 203
Jala Burton and Sally Robinson
17 Behind the barbed wire fence, looking up at the concrete ceiling:
Aboriginal "leadership" and considerations for social work 217
Bindi Bennett, Kelly Menzel and Liz Cameron
18 Lesbian perspectives and experiences of gender and sexuality in leadership
in social work and social care: a review of the literature 229
Christine Cocker, Adi Cooper and Trish Hafford-Letchfield
19 Social care leadership and system failures: how to do the impossible well 241
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20 Sousveillance and the leadership gaze: meaning-making, organisational
and representational leadership, and sousveillance social media advocacy
in mandated social welfare contexts 253
Tara La Rose and Jennifer Mule
PART IV DEVELOPING LEADERSHIP
21 A contemporary approach to leadership education and development for the
health and human service sector 269
Kate L. Fennell and Pieter J. Van Dam
22 Prospects, dilemmas, and constraints of global leadership in social work
education and frontline practice: perspectives from international social
workers 281
Janet Walker, Guanyu Jason Ran, Tatenda Goodman Nhapi and
Diwakar Khanal
23 Leaders in plain sight: what the experiences of early career social workers
tell us about leadership in Scottish social work 295
Scott Grant, Trish McCulloch and Maura Daly
24 Human-centred leadership development for women in the human services 307
Karen Hopkins and Megan Meyer
25 "Lifting as we climb": exploring the lived experiences of Black women
social work leaders 320
Selena T. Rodgers, Jennette Allen-McCombs, Shirell Roeback, Azzie
Forbes and Cathleen Lilavois
26 Critical social work leadership and labour unions: creating transformative
change through courage, reflexivity, mindfulness, and action 334
Courtney Atlee and Aubrey Gonsalves
27 What do we know about leadership in social work and social care and
where next for the field? 348
Helen Dickinson, Caroline Jackson, Catherine Mangan and Robin Miller
