Full Description
This book centres on neurodivergent social workers and how managers and supervisors can ensure they offer neuroinclusive support and guidance in social work teams and organisations.
Explaining key theory, information, and practice regarding neurodiversity to develop understanding, it will also enable practitioners to connect with how neurodivergent social workers may experience social work practice and the impact on their practice and well-being. Using a strengths-based and neuro-affirming perspective, it shows how managers and supervisors can understand, value and utilise the knowledge skills and values of neurodivergent social workers within teams and services. Offering frameworks, ideas and advice on specific social work contexts such as supervision, organising and planning work, enabling a sensory-affirming workplace, as well as developing trusted and empathic working relationships, it will help social work professionals to practice inclusively and anti-oppressively with their neurodivergent colleagues.
This book will be a useful resource for social work managers and supervisors, as well as practice educators and the wider organisation. Neurodivergent social workers will also find the information useful in terms of their own working strategies and approaches.
Contents
1.Introduction 2.Neurodiversity: A brief history and current concepts 3.Rethinking Knowledge - Critical Neurodiversity Theories in Social Work Education and Practice 4.Hidden Voices and the organisational risk context 5.Why social work needs neurodivergence 6.The trauma of the everyday 7.Capability, Performance, and Affirming Practice in Social Work Management 8.Advocacy and Developing Affirming Relationships 9.The art of communication through a practice education lens 10.Neuroinclusive Supervision 11.The neurodivergent leader 12.Concluding Reflections: Reaffirming the Paradigm Shift Appendix
