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040 _aAFVC
100 _aRobbins, Rachel
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245 _a‘Don’t even get us started on social workers’ :
_bdomestic violence, social work and trust - an anecdote from research
_cRachel Robbins and Kate Cook
260 _bOxford Academic,
_c2017
500 _aBritish Journal of Social Work, 2017, Advance online publication, 10 November 2017
520 _aThis paper explores the concept of trust in relation to social work, child protection and work on domestic abuse. Trust is a complex notion. Borrowing from the arguments of Behnia that trust is the outcome of a process, the paper uses the talk of women who have experienced social work in the context of domestic abuse and child protection to consider the barriers to trust building. The evidence is gathered from three focus groups which formed part of an evaluation of a ‘Freedom Programme’. The findings highlight issues with trust building that start with the context of living with abuse and work outwards to considerations of professional power, social work systems and wider inequality, suggesting an ecological approach to the trust-building process. The key argument is that social workers will struggle to gain trust within a system that sees domestic abuse as a hurdle that mothers must overcome, rather than a trauma through which they should be supported. The experiences of the women in this research, however, do show that trust and respect for voluntary service are achievable and that practice which builds alliances with the voluntary sector and service users could develop more trusting relationships. (Authors' abstract). Record #5782
650 _aABUSED WOMEN
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650 _aCHILD PROTECTION
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650 _aDOMESTIC VIOLENCE
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650 _aFreedom Programme
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650 _aINTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
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650 _aMOTHERS
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650 _aPROGRAMME EVALUATION
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_aSOCIAL WORK PRACTICE
650 5 _aSOCIAL WORK TRAINING
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650 4 _aVICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
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651 4 _aUNITED KINGDOM
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700 _aCook, Kate
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773 0 3 _tBritish Journal of Social Work, 2017, Advance online publication, 10 November 2017
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_aBritish Journal of Social Work
856 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcx125
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