Diaries of family workers: empowerment and working with families with children

EMPOWERING SOCIAL WORK: RESEARCH AND PRACTICE explores empowerment and disempowerment in the light of theoretical constructs linked to social work and social policy, in relation to immigration, well-being and reciprocity. Case studies are used to illustrate empowering and preventive practice in a variety of situations: in child protection, multicultural work, family work, and in working with children and adolescents. Written by experts from Finnish and Russian Universities, the chapters in this book also cover topics such as multiculturalism and racism in these two countries. Understanding these issues can help professionals to find new ways of engendering mutual trust in client-worker relationships, thus improving the clients’ opportunities to make decisions concerning their own lives.