Relational caring and presence theory in health care and social work: a care-ethical perspective

By:

Baart, Andries

Contributor(s):

Timmerman, Guus

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Old Park Hill, Bristol Policy Press 2025Description: xiv, 263 pISBN:

9781447375722

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

610.7301 BAA

Summary: Three decades of neoliberal efficiency thinking about caring and care systems have resulted in a greater need for relationality in healthcare and social work than ever before. These support services extend beyond the giving of care and support to include the development of relationships between caregivers and their care recipients in their socio-institutional contexts. The culmination of over 30 years of research, this book provides an extensive and critical introduction to relational working in care, education and welfare. It explains what relational work is and proposes a new, human-orientated theory beyond the simple needs provision model. Demonstrating the kind of professionalism required for such work, it explores why it is as important to be present with and for people, especially those in precarious conditions, as it is to give care. This is essential reading for researchers, educators, quality officers, policy makers, students and practitioners interested in understanding the growing scholarship related to both care theory and presence theory. (https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/relational-caring-and-presence-theory-in-health-care-and-social-work)

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
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Table of contents:
Prologue: ‘Somewhere between a scream and silence’

1. Introduction

Part 1: Presence, Practice and Theory

2. Presence – the concept

3. Presence – the practice

4. Presence – the theory as originally formulated and its reception

5. Constructing knowledge (1) – care ethics and the empirical turn

6. Constructing knowledge (2) – complex theorising and the practice turn

7. Presence - The presence-theoretical perspective on relational caring

Part 2: Major Topics in Relational Caring

8. The socio-political consequences of relational caring

9. Opening oneself up and staying open to the other or others

10. Relational caring - relationality and finality

11. Practically wise professionals

Interlude: a note on technology

12. Cultivating quality awareness

13. The continuing formation of relationally caring professionals

14. Epilogue: Meta-theoretical and political background theories

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Three decades of neoliberal efficiency thinking about caring and care systems have resulted in a greater need for relationality in healthcare and social work than ever before. These support services extend beyond the giving of care and support to include the development of relationships between caregivers and their care recipients in their socio-institutional contexts.

The culmination of over 30 years of research, this book provides an extensive and critical introduction to relational working in care, education and welfare. It explains what relational work is and proposes a new, human-orientated theory beyond the simple needs provision model. Demonstrating the kind of professionalism required for such work, it explores why it is as important to be present with and for people, especially those in precarious conditions, as it is to give care.

This is essential reading for researchers, educators, quality officers, policy makers, students and practitioners interested in understanding the growing scholarship related to both care theory and presence theory.

(https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/relational-caring-and-presence-theory-in-health-care-and-social-work)

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