- Paperback: 242 pages
- Publisher: Janus Publishing Co (July 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1857565193
- ISBN-13: 978-1857565195
- Product Dimensions: 20 x 14.6 x 1.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,359,408 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The Nameless Social Worker represents not only the author herself, but all those dedicated individuals within social work whose invaluable service to the community all too often goes unrecognised. The author, a social worker for over twenty years, examines the attitude of society, and in particular the media, towards social work and suggests why the profession and the services it provides are often under-appreciated or misconstrued. The author also argues, however, that the profession itself - including the bureaucratic machinery underpinning (and often hampering) its service delivery to clients - is equally responsible for its public portrayal. In this she gives us the benefit of her vast personal experience and puts forward her philosophy for the profession as a whole becoming more self-assured and less introverted, working with the media and the community in improving its public perception, rather than shying away from them like the proverbial mouse before the roaring lion. The book is also valuable as a fascinating and emotional insight into one woman's life, family and career.
From the Author
I wrote the Nameless Social Worker partly because I wanted anyone to read about how someone became a social worker and why but also to try to encourage other ordinary social workers to have a go.
We need to let the public know what social work is really about. We don't rush children into care or let them die as people still believe, it is much more complicated than that and this book is the beginning of telling the truth.
My book is half my autobiography and half my own original ideas around the relationship between social work and the media. I even have a couple of scripts to start to stimulate the possibility of more social work on TV or even a social work soap. We have great stories to tell, so contact me. rachelbramble@yahoo.co.uk
We need to let the public know what social work is really about. We don't rush children into care or let them die as people still believe, it is much more complicated than that and this book is the beginning of telling the truth.
My book is half my autobiography and half my own original ideas around the relationship between social work and the media. I even have a couple of scripts to start to stimulate the possibility of more social work on TV or even a social work soap. We have great stories to tell, so contact me. rachelbramble@yahoo.co.uk
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
I suspect like most readers I ventured into this book with a view to finding out more about what social workers do and the challenges that they face in doing it. I was soon to be disappointed. From the start Rachael Bramble, which turns out to be a pseudonym, talks extensively about her personal life attributing great importance to her upbringing, failed relationships with men (for which she accepts no responsibility) and having children, while telling us little about her life as a social worker. Only towards the middle of the book does she even touch on talking about some of her cases and then only in the sparsest possible manner giving away very little about the institutions and practises associated with her profession, which she simply dismisses as excessively bureaucratic and with too much form filling. Her suggestion that her "training" included refusing to go to school as a teenager (which apparently gave her powers of empathy) and "gut instinct" does little to bolster the profession in the eyes of the public, which is what she explicitly sets out to do at the beginning of the book, and her screenplay "collaboration" (written on a night school course) makes for a weighty but otherwise uninspiring second half. For those of us looking for the truth of what social work is all about and how social workers contribute to society (if indeed they do) there's very definitely still a gap in the market.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
At last someone is speaking out. Social Workers get so much criticism but no-one really knows what they do.
The nameless social worker will never win any prizes but it might make a few people think
The nameless social worker will never win any prizes but it might make a few people think
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