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EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Human service work is performed in many places - hospitals, shelters, households, prisons, schools, clinics - and is characterised by a complex mixture of organising principles, relations and rules. Using ethnographic methods, researchers can investigate these site-specific complexities, providing multi-dimensional and compelling analyses. Bringing together both theoretical and practical material, this book shows researchers how ethnography can be carried out within human service settings. It provides an invaluable guide on how to apply ethnographic creativeness and offers a more humanistic and context-sensitive approach in the field of health and social care to generating valid knowledge about today's service work.
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"Human service organizations are faced with environments of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. The COVID-19 pandemic, other healthcare challenges, expectations for evidence-based practice usage, and racial justice are vivid examples. Clients and communities deserve effective services delivered by competent, compassionate, and committed staff members. Taxpayers, donors, philanthropists, policy makers, and board members deserve to have their contributions used to deliver programs that are effective and efficient. All these forces create demands and opportunities for organizational change. Planned organizational change can happen at the level of a program, division, or an entire organization. Administrators and other staff will need complementary skills in leading and managing organizational change. Staff deserve opportunities to have their unique competencies used to achieve organizational goals. Organizational change involves leading and mobilizing staff to address problems, needs, or opportunities facing the organization by using change processes which involve both human and technical aspects of the organization"--
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Ce livre plonge le lecteur dans un exercice professionnel trop souvent confidentiel. L'Aide sociale à l'enfance, si fréquemment stigmatisée, y est décryptée par un professionnel qui a travaillé plus de vingt-sept ans dans l'un de ses services départementaux. Son propos, sans concession, n'hésite pas à écorcher son administration, tout en exposant aussi bien ses réussites que ses échecs, ses fulgurances que ses hésitations, ses satisfactions que ses déceptions. Parler de l'enfance en danger ne doit pas enfermer dans un ton dramatique et/ou neurasthénique. L'auteur traite avec gravité et empathie des situations poignantes qu'il a rencontrées, mais sait aussi utiliser l'humour pour décrire le burlesque, la tendresse et l'émotion de bien d'autres.
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