Derek Clifford
Biographic Data
| ID | 3848034 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Derek Clifford |
| GIVEN NAMES | Derek |
| FAMILY NAME | Clifford |
| SIGNATURE | CLIFFORD D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Liverpool John Moores University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
In Dialogue with an Ethics Case: Revisiting Issues of Agency and Structure in a Care Home Context
Ethics and Social Welfare the Journal: Past, Present and Future
Interprofessional ethics: Collaboration in the social, health and human services
This book is a welcome addition to the growing literature on ethics in the social professions because, despite the fact that some of this is well-worn ground, the author tackles important current i
The Quest for a Moral Compass: A Global History of Ethics
This book aims to do what is says in the title with some success, but limited by significant omissions in the final chapters. However, it is interesting both in its successes and failures. It has 2
Oppression and professional ethics
This paper will suggest some key elements needed to adequately ground a concept of oppression relevant to the ethics of the social professionsFootnote1
Limitations of Virtue Ethics in the Social Professions
The re-emergence of virtue ethics (henceforth VE) as both an academic theory and as an approach to applied ethics has contributed to the re-invigoration of ethical debate. It has encouraged reflective consideration of the nature of professionals' commitments to various values that constitute their personal and professional character, both collectively and individually. This paper argues that whilst there may be some value in the re-orientation of…
Ethics, Politics and the Social Professions: Reading Iris Marion Young
This paper seeks to describe and evaluate the work of the late Iris Marion Young as a critical reference point for values and ethics in the social professions. Her credentials are both experiential and theoretical, having studied analytical then postmodern and phenomenological thought, publishing a series of influential books on political and ethical concepts from a critical feminist position. Her theory and practice were closely related: she act…
Ethics: Contemporary Challenges in Health and Social Care - Edited by Audrey Leathard and Susan McLaren
Barriers to Adoption: Variations in the Use of Adoption by Local Authorities
Political and media interest in adoption in the last few years in Britain coincided with a research project set up jointly by the North-West Group of Voluntary Adoption Agencies and Liverpool John Moores University. The origins of the research lie in the concerns of the voluntary adoption agencies about the use of their services by local authorities in the light of their own records, which indicated very variable patterns of use. The aim of the r…
What practical difference does it make? Anti-oppressive ethics and informed consent
This paper examines the difference between traditional social work ethics and anti-oppressive values in social care. It examines a published practice example, contending that an anti-oppressive ethic is significantly different in theory and practice from traditional social work ethics. It would make a difference to the way Sylvia, the service user in this case, would have been assessed by the social worker, raising a different range of issues, qu…
Individual assessment of potential carers: Theory and practice
In a previous paper in this journal, Derek Clifford criticised the use of contemporary methods of assessment in childcare from an anti-oppressive perspective, and suggested constructive ways forward (1994b). This paper is based on research in the assessment of carers for fostering and adoption, testing out some of those ideas, but the principles involved have been developed within a wider context: a continuing study of anti-oppressive concepts of…
Parallel processes in researching and assessing potential carers
This paper proposes a model for assessing potential parents, based on our research and practice in which we examined current methods of assessment in the light of anti‐oppressive principles and methods. We participated in and observed the work of two differing fostering and adoption agencies, and have drawn from our experiences and analysis to produce a pattern for assessment which critically draws on best practices. The paper also draws on previ…
Towards an anti-oppressive social work assessment method
This paper discusses how social workers might put into practice anti-oppressive values in the particular area of understanding and assessing the users of their services. It begins with a critical examination of a published piece of assessment that is a good example of the type of work currently being done in social work agencies, arguing that the failure to look sufficiently at the anti-oppressive issues is a failure of the method used. It contin…
Concept formation in radical theories of need: A comment on Doyal and Gough's A Theory of Human Needs
Memory and Attention
Limitations of Virtue Ethics in the Social Professions
The re-emergence of virtue ethics (henceforth VE) as both an academic theory and as an approach to applied ethics has contributed to the re-invigoration of ethical debate. It has encouraged reflective consideration of the nature of professionals' commitments to various values that constitute their personal and professional character, both collectively and individually. This paper argues that whilst there may be some value in the re-orientation of…
Oppression and professional ethics
This paper will suggest some key elements needed to adequately ground a concept of oppression relevant to the ethics of the social professionsFootnote1
Ethics, Politics and the Social Professions: Reading Iris Marion Young
This paper seeks to describe and evaluate the work of the late Iris Marion Young as a critical reference point for values and ethics in the social professions. Her credentials are both experiential and theoretical, having studied analytical then postmodern and phenomenological thought, publishing a series of influential books on political and ethical concepts from a critical feminist position. Her theory and practice were closely related: she act…
Barriers to Adoption: Variations in the Use of Adoption by Local Authorities
Political and media interest in adoption in the last few years in Britain coincided with a research project set up jointly by the North-West Group of Voluntary Adoption Agencies and Liverpool John Moores University. The origins of the research lie in the concerns of the voluntary adoption agencies about the use of their services by local authorities in the light of their own records, which indicated very variable patterns of use. The aim of the r…
Parallel processes in researching and assessing potential carers
This paper proposes a model for assessing potential parents, based on our research and practice in which we examined current methods of assessment in the light of anti‐oppressive principles and methods. We participated in and observed the work of two differing fostering and adoption agencies, and have drawn from our experiences and analysis to produce a pattern for assessment which critically draws on best practices. The paper also draws on previ…
Towards an anti-oppressive social work assessment method
This paper discusses how social workers might put into practice anti-oppressive values in the particular area of understanding and assessing the users of their services. It begins with a critical examination of a published piece of assessment that is a good example of the type of work currently being done in social work agencies, arguing that the failure to look sufficiently at the anti-oppressive issues is a failure of the method used. It contin…
Memory and Attention
Concept formation in radical theories of need: A comment on Doyal and Gough's A Theory of Human Needs
Towards an anti-oppressive social work assessment method
This paper discusses how social workers might put into practice anti-oppressive values in the particular area of understanding and assessing the users of their services. It begins with a critical examination of a published piece of assessment that is a good example of the type of work currently being done in social work agencies, arguing that the failure to look sufficiently at the anti-oppressive issues is a failure of the method used. It contin…
Individual assessment of potential carers: Theory and practice
In a previous paper in this journal, Derek Clifford criticised the use of contemporary methods of assessment in childcare from an anti-oppressive perspective, and suggested constructive ways forward (1994b). This paper is based on research in the assessment of carers for fostering and adoption, testing out some of those ideas, but the principles involved have been developed within a wider context: a continuing study of anti-oppressive concepts of…
Parallel processes in researching and assessing potential carers
This paper proposes a model for assessing potential parents, based on our research and practice in which we examined current methods of assessment in the light of anti‐oppressive principles and methods. We participated in and observed the work of two differing fostering and adoption agencies, and have drawn from our experiences and analysis to produce a pattern for assessment which critically draws on best practices. The paper also draws on previ…
What practical difference does it make? Anti-oppressive ethics and informed consent
This paper examines the difference between traditional social work ethics and anti-oppressive values in social care. It examines a published practice example, contending that an anti-oppressive ethic is significantly different in theory and practice from traditional social work ethics. It would make a difference to the way Sylvia, the service user in this case, would have been assessed by the social worker, raising a different range of issues, qu…
Barriers to Adoption: Variations in the Use of Adoption by Local Authorities
Political and media interest in adoption in the last few years in Britain coincided with a research project set up jointly by the North-West Group of Voluntary Adoption Agencies and Liverpool John Moores University. The origins of the research lie in the concerns of the voluntary adoption agencies about the use of their services by local authorities in the light of their own records, which indicated very variable patterns of use. The aim of the r…
Ethics: Contemporary Challenges in Health and Social Care - Edited by Audrey Leathard and Susan McLaren
Ethics, Politics and the Social Professions: Reading Iris Marion Young
This paper seeks to describe and evaluate the work of the late Iris Marion Young as a critical reference point for values and ethics in the social professions. Her credentials are both experiential and theoretical, having studied analytical then postmodern and phenomenological thought, publishing a series of influential books on political and ethical concepts from a critical feminist position. Her theory and practice were closely related: she act…
Limitations of Virtue Ethics in the Social Professions
The re-emergence of virtue ethics (henceforth VE) as both an academic theory and as an approach to applied ethics has contributed to the re-invigoration of ethical debate. It has encouraged reflective consideration of the nature of professionals' commitments to various values that constitute their personal and professional character, both collectively and individually. This paper argues that whilst there may be some value in the re-orientation of…
Oppression and professional ethics
This paper will suggest some key elements needed to adequately ground a concept of oppression relevant to the ethics of the social professionsFootnote1
The Quest for a Moral Compass: A Global History of Ethics
This book aims to do what is says in the title with some success, but limited by significant omissions in the final chapters. However, it is interesting both in its successes and failures. It has 2
Interprofessional ethics: Collaboration in the social, health and human services
This book is a welcome addition to the growing literature on ethics in the social professions because, despite the fact that some of this is well-worn ground, the author tackles important current i
In Dialogue with an Ethics Case: Revisiting Issues of Agency and Structure in a Care Home Context
Ethics and Social Welfare the Journal: Past, Present and Future
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