Transcript: Care Accolades 2012
Some of those involved in the inspiring projects nominated in the ten categories of award
Category: Social work (general)
Transcript: Birth family contact. Continuity or contamination?
Mary McKenna interviews Barbara Godden about her experience of contact with the birth family of her adopted children, now in their teens.
Category: Child protection
Transcript: Emotions in social work practice
Looking at the role of emotional intelligence in social work.
Category: Social work (general)
Transcript: Mixed methods research and design: their development and use
Professor Brannen explores what we mean by mixed qualitative and quantitative research methodologies. She outlines its historic development and describes some recent examples of its use in studies of food practices.
Category: Social work (general)
Transcript: Discovering desistance
Claire Lightowler (Iriss) hosts a discussion at the second of two workshops held in Glasgow on 16 May 2012 as part of the desistance knowledge exchange.
Category: Criminal justice
Transcript: Empathy and emotional intelligence
Professor David Howe, one of the UK's leading social work academics, talks about how attachment theory is informed by research and how this translates into practice, and why attachment is a key element in effective and appropriate practice.
Category: Attachment
Transcript: Self directed support: North Lanarkshire demonstrator project
During the summer of 2012 North Lanarkshire Council is taking part in a self directed support demonstration project in which 20 families will each receive a budget of £200 to spend on something that will make a difference to their lives.
Category: Self-directed support
Transcript: Involving young people: messages from research
Helen Whincup, Teaching Fellow at the University of Stirling, reflects on a qualitative study of young people and their feelings about how they are involved, or not, in assessment and decision making.
Category: Young people
Transcript: How prevalent is child abuse and neglect?
Are children's lives getting worse? Is there any evidence that our child protection efforts over the last 30 or 40 years have been making a difference?
Category: Child protection
Transcript: Social Worker of the Year, Sandy Watt
Sandy Watt, a senior mental health officer and practice teacher with North Lanarkshire Council. In this episode Sandy talks to Iriss's Rikke Iversholt about his 30 years in social work and the changes that the sector has gone through.
Category: Social work (general)