Working with Men in Health and Social Care by Brid Featherstone,Mark Rivett,Jonathan Scourfield

By Brid Featherstone,Mark Rivett,Jonathan Scourfield

'Working with males in overall healthiness and Social Care is a really welcome contribution to the inventory of books on males and masculinities. it really is specially helpful for these drawn to direct perform and coverage purposes within the fields of welfare, and should you paintings with the issues males create, the issues males event, and their interconnections' - Jeff Hearn, co-editor Men and Masculinities, collage of Huddersfield and Linköping University

Working with males in wellbeing and fitness and Social Care is a crucial and well timed e-book that introduces the complicated matters and debates fascinated by operating with males in more than a few expert settings. The authors find educational and renowned discourse on masculinities in the particular context of overall healthiness and social care settings, significantly analysing the speculation and coverage that underpin and tell perform, and consistently linking theoretical frameworks to 'real-life' perform examples.

Section 1 contextualises the subject with a dialogue of gender thought, social coverage and the occupational tradition of proper businesses

Section 2 presents a precis of perform versions, studying perform with males as participants, in addition to in teams, households and communities

Section 3 is organised in line with particular teams of carrier clients and comprises chapters on fathers, abusive males, actual and psychological overall healthiness, boys, and older males

This thought-provoking and topical booklet can be crucial analyzing for college kids and lecturers in social paintings, health and wellbeing care, probation, counselling, and allied disciplines, and for these dealing with the truth of operating with males of their daily practice.

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