Social Work and COVID-19: Lessons for Education and Practice Denise Turner (ed.)

Abstract

"The 2020 coronavirus pandemic provided an unprecedented moment of global crisis, which placed health and social care at the forefront of the national agenda. The lockdown, social distancing measures and rapid move to online working created multiple challenges and safeguarding concerns for social work education and practice, whilst the unparalleled death rate exacerbated pre-existing problems with communicating openly about death and bereavement. Many of these issues were already at the surface of social work practice and education and this book examines how the health crisis has exposed these, whilst acting as a potential catalyst for change. This book acts as a testament to the historical moment whilst providing a forum for drawing together discussion from contemporary educators, practitioners and users of social work services."--Provided by publisher Foreword / Dr Ruth Allen -- Introduction / Dr. Denise Turner -- Social work, technologies and Covid-19 / Dr. Amanda Taylor-Beswick -- Protecting children during the pandemic / Nicola Labuschagne, Gema Hadridge, Laura Vansderbijl, Sarah Jones and Ellie Geater -- Unaccompanied asylum-seeking children and young refugees: Alone in the UK in a pandemic / Dr Kish Bhatti-Sinclair -- 'We just don't matter' : Articulating the experiences of Black African social work students during the Covid-19 pandemic in England / Dr Propera Tedam -- Embracing 'un'-certainty in practice education / Cornelia Lange and Robert Maynard -- From surviving to thriving: The experience of social work students and their families in lockdown / Andrew Lorimer, Francis Sentamu and Rachel Sharples -- Living through Covid-19: A disabled person's perspective / Varsha Tailor -- Poetry helps : Poetry as a means of creative reflection and learning in social work / Dr Ariane Critchley and Dr. Autumn Roesch-Marsh -- 'From beginning to end': Loss, change and meaning-making in the context of Covid-19 / Dr. Denise Turner -- Supervision in end-of -life care: The importance of supervision in a Covid-19 world / Marie Price -- Conclusion / Dr. Denise Turner.