Richard Hugman
Biographic Data
| ID | 4238649 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Hugman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Hugman |
| SIGNATURE | HUGMAN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | UNSW Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9988-6849 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 264 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Social work education in Vietnam: The development, challenges and ongoing effort to indigenization in the past two decades
Social work education is considered essential in developing the social work profession in Vietnam to set a foundation for the profession in the late 1980s. Since officially given a training code in 2004 and recognition of the professional status in 2010, the development of social work education has been significantly expanded in the number of training institutions and programs provided at various levels with only two schools providing undergradua…
Social Work Theory and Ethics: Ideas in Practice
Social Work Theory and Ethics: Ideas in Practice
Combatting Gender Oppression: Applying Intersectionality in Microfinance Self-help Groups
Searching for Virtue Ethics: A Survey of Social Work Ethics Curriculum and Educators
This article discusses whether, and to what extent, virtue ethics is covered in the social work ethics curriculum and views of social work ethics educators in Australia. Drawing on a survey of social work ethics curriculum and education, it presents the nature and scope of social work ethics subjects in terms of learning outcomes; overall curriculum content; textbooks used; teaching approaches, challenges and strategies for teaching; and social w…
Collective Choice and Social Welfare: Considerations for Indigenous Australians
International field placements: The models Australian social work programmes are currently using
International field placements have become increasingly common in Australian social work programmes. This article looks at the models of organising international placements, in sending or receiving social work students. Four such models are identified: informal linkages for individual students, linkages between Australian social work programmes, formalised university to university agreements and formalised university to agency agreements. Althoug…
Power/Knowledge and the Ethics of Involuntary Treatment for Anorexia Nervosa in Context: A Social Work Contribution to the Debate
This paper reports on an ethnographic study conducted in two eating disorders treatment settings in New South Wales, Australia. The study set out to make a social work contribution to the debate on the ethics of involuntary treatment for anorexia nervosa (AN) drawing on the authors' practice experience. An empirical ethics approach was taken to support a reflective process of theorising from practice focused on how the treatment decision-making c…
Practical social work ethics: Complex dilemmas within applied social care
Practical social work ethics: complex dilemmas within applied social care." China Journal of Social Work, 8(3), pp. 293–294
Ethical Challenges and Human Rights in Africa
In September 2010, social workers from across Africa and its diaspora took part in an online discussion of the extent to which there could be, or should be, a pan-African social work code of ethics. While the debate remained inconclusive, it did suggest that the time was ripe for more dedicated exploration of the nature of ethical challenges and social work responses thereto in Africa. Yet, in view of its diverse historical, social, political, ec…
Social Work and the Ethics of Involuntary Treatment for Anorexia Nervosa: A Postmodern Approach
The debate on the ethics of involuntary treatment for Anorexia Nervosa (AN) is dominated by biomedical ethics approaches to the issues. In keeping with the biomedical ethics emphasis on objectively balancing ethical principles, the debate centres on how to respect the autonomy of persons with AN who refuse treatment whilst protecting these persons from harm. Commentators discuss this at a normative ethics level. Thus, the debate does not address …
Human Agency and the Meaning of Informed Consent: Reflections on Research with Refugees
Recent analysis of the ethics of research with refugees suggests that there are practical and theoretical issues to be addressed in achieving informed consent from participants who are in vulnerable situations. This article reviews the questions that are central to this concern, focusing in particular on the challenge of ensuring that the human agency of refugees is sustained and promoted. A model for research work with refugees is described and …
Ethics and Value Perspectives in Social Work
Ethics and Value Perspectives in Social Work Mel Gray & Stephen A. Webb (Eds.) Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, England, 2010 xi+266pp., ISBN: 9780230221451, $48.00 (paperback) Recent years have se
When 'Do No Harm' Is Not Enough: The Ethics of Research with Refugees and Other Vulnerable Groups
Ethics in social work research increasingly recognises that the rights and interests of subjects must be primary. The principal aim is to ensure that the subjects of research are protected from harm that might result from their participation in the research. In this article, research ethics are examined in the context of refugees and other vulnerable groups. It is argued that the ancient idea of seeking to ‘do no harm’ that continues to be a key …
Understanding International Social Work
Stop Stealing Our Stories: The Ethics of Research with Vulnerable Groups
The article discusses the challenges and opportunities faced when integrating participatory methods into human rights-based research. It describes the development of a participatory action research approach designed to fulfil the aim of undertaking advocacy-focused research grounded in human rights and community participation. It reflects the principles of anti-oppressive social work and the ethics of undertaking research with vulnerable populati…
Towards a borderless social work: Reconsidering notions of international social work
This article explores varied ideas describing the concept of international social work. Looking at international social work from the idea of glocalization, we explore how international social work is figuratively embodied in migrations. How we see ourselves in international social work not only forms a dialogue that problematizes power relations in the international social arena but also provides an instructive venture into considerations of bor…
Morals, Rights and Practice in the Human Services: Effective and Fair Decision-making in Health, Social Care and Criminal Justice
Morals, Rights and Practice in the Human Services: Effective and Fair Decision-making in Health, Social Care and Criminal Justice Marie Connolly & Tony Ward London & Philadelphia, Jessica Kingsley
But Is It Social Work? Some Reflections on Mistaken Identities
Journal Article But Is It Social Work? Some Reflections on Mistaken Identities Get access Richard Hugman Richard Hugman Correspondence to Richard Hugman, Professor of Social Work, School of Social Sciences and International Studies, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Social Work, Volume 39, Issue 6, …
Global Ethics for Social Work: Problems and Possibilities—Papers from the Ethics & Social Welfare Symposium, Durban, July 2008
This piece comprises short presentations given by contributors to a symposium organized by the journal Ethics & Social Welfare on the theme of global ethics for social work. The contributors offer their reflections on the extent to which universally accepted international statements of ethical principles in social work are possible or useful, engaging with debates about cultural diversity, relativism and the relevance of human rights in non-Weste…
Ethics in a World of Difference
International statements about social work ethics have been criticized as imposing Western values in non-Western contexts. Two forms of this criticism can be identified in recent literature, one ‘strong’ in that it calls for each cultural context to generate its own relevant values, the other ‘qualified’ in that while it seeks basic common values it calls for these to be interpreted with cultural sensitivity. Such arguments raise a particular pro…
Social Work Values: Equity or Equality? A Response to Solas
Social work values
Le pouvoir des professionnels dans la réadaptation: Exemple d’un groupe d’usagers du service social
La réadaptation, en santé mentale, s'est éloignée progressivement de son objectif de maximisation du fonctionnement individuel, pour s'intéresser plutôt aux moyens qui pourraient aider les malades mentaux à interagir assez bien avec leur environnement et gagner en autonomie dans leur vie quotidienne (Wing, 1980). La réadaptation est alors apparue comme un processus plutôt que comme un événement (Sheppard, 1984). En d'autres mots, la réadaptation …
Developing social work in Vietnam
English There has been a growing recognition in Vietnam (since the 1986 economic reforms) that professional social work is required to respond effectively to social problems. This article presents findings from a government and UNICEF-sponsored study undertaken to examine developments in social work. These are considered in relation to the profession globally. French Au Vietnam, on reconnaît de plus en plus, depuis les réformes é conomiques de 19…
New Approaches in Ethics for the Caring Professions
Ethics are central to the caring professions. The very idea of a profession stakes a claim on the ethical basis of knowledge and skills. In this book Richard Hugman examines new approaches in ethics a
Stop Stealing Our Stories: The Ethics of Research with Vulnerable Groups
The article discusses the challenges and opportunities faced when integrating participatory methods into human rights-based research. It describes the development of a participatory action research approach designed to fulfil the aim of undertaking advocacy-focused research grounded in human rights and community participation. It reflects the principles of anti-oppressive social work and the ethics of undertaking research with vulnerable populati…
When 'Do No Harm' Is Not Enough: The Ethics of Research with Refugees and Other Vulnerable Groups
Ethics in social work research increasingly recognises that the rights and interests of subjects must be primary. The principal aim is to ensure that the subjects of research are protected from harm that might result from their participation in the research. In this article, research ethics are examined in the context of refugees and other vulnerable groups. It is argued that the ancient idea of seeking to ‘do no harm’ that continues to be a key …
Human Agency and the Meaning of Informed Consent: Reflections on Research with Refugees
Recent analysis of the ethics of research with refugees suggests that there are practical and theoretical issues to be addressed in achieving informed consent from participants who are in vulnerable situations. This article reviews the questions that are central to this concern, focusing in particular on the challenge of ensuring that the human agency of refugees is sustained and promoted. A model for research work with refugees is described and …
Professionalization in social work: The challenge of diversity
But Is It Social Work? Some Reflections on Mistaken Identities
Journal Article But Is It Social Work? Some Reflections on Mistaken Identities Get access Richard Hugman Richard Hugman Correspondence to Richard Hugman, Professor of Social Work, School of Social Sciences and International Studies, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Social Work, Volume 39, Issue 6, …
Towards a borderless social work: Reconsidering notions of international social work
This article explores varied ideas describing the concept of international social work. Looking at international social work from the idea of glocalization, we explore how international social work is figuratively embodied in migrations. How we see ourselves in international social work not only forms a dialogue that problematizes power relations in the international social arena but also provides an instructive venture into considerations of bor…
Professional Values and Ethics in Social Work: Reconsidering Postmodernism
The ‘postmodern turn’ in social theory has raised questions for understanding the social world. The implications of these debates for social work values and ethics are the central focus of this article. The implications of a postmodern view of social work are examined and compared with criticisms of postmodern theory. It is argued that a critical consideration of postmodern insights may assist social work to examine the diverse, provisional and u…
Ethics in a World of Difference
International statements about social work ethics have been criticized as imposing Western values in non-Western contexts. Two forms of this criticism can be identified in recent literature, one ‘strong’ in that it calls for each cultural context to generate its own relevant values, the other ‘qualified’ in that while it seeks basic common values it calls for these to be interpreted with cultural sensitivity. Such arguments raise a particular pro…
Developing social work in Vietnam
English There has been a growing recognition in Vietnam (since the 1986 economic reforms) that professional social work is required to respond effectively to social problems. This article presents findings from a government and UNICEF-sponsored study undertaken to examine developments in social work. These are considered in relation to the profession globally. French Au Vietnam, on reconnaît de plus en plus, depuis les réformes é conomiques de 19…
Professional ethics in social work: Living with the legacy
Until recently, professional ethics in social work has often been characterised in terms of a debate between Kantian and Utilitarian approaches. However, both these approaches are founded on a common basis in universalism and liberal individualism, which have been challenged by current developments in social theory. This paper examines the implications of such changes for social work ethics and considers how the profession can think about living …
Morals, Rights and Practice in the Human Services: Effective and Fair Decision-making in Health, Social Care and Criminal Justice
Morals, Rights and Practice in the Human Services: Effective and Fair Decision-making in Health, Social Care and Criminal Justice Marie Connolly & Tony Ward London & Philadelphia, Jessica Kingsley
Social Work Values: Equity or Equality? A Response to Solas
Social work values
Older people and their families: Rethinking the social work task
The place of aged care in social work has long been ambiguous, if not marginal. Social work (as do other comparable professions) often displays a reluctance to place practice in this field within the core of the profession that embodies aspects of ageism in contemporary society. Working with older people is frequently characterised as ‘mundane’, ‘routine’ and even ‘not “real” social work’. This paper examines the practice implications of the curr…
Ethics and Value Perspectives in Social Work
Ethics and Value Perspectives in Social Work Mel Gray & Stephen A. Webb (Eds.) Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, England, 2010 xi+266pp., ISBN: 9780230221451, $48.00 (paperback) Recent years have se
Social Work and Case Management in the UK: Models of Professionalism and Elderly People
Discrimination against old age and work with elderly people are evident in the practices and organisation of caring professions, of which social work may be taken as an example because of its central role in community care provision. This article examines the implications for the status of professional social work with elderly people of recent proposals to develop the role of care manager in place of the case management model developed in Kent an…
Looking Back: The View from Here
Journal Article Looking Back: The View from Here Get access Richard Hugman Richard Hugman Professor of Social Work and Head of the School of Social Work at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Correspondence to Professor Richard Hugman, School of Social Work, University of New South Wales, Sydney 2052 NSW, Australia. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British J…
The Implications of the Term ‘Elder Abuse’ for Problem Definition and Response in Health and Social Welfare
Elder abuse’ has recently emerged as an important phenomenon, with implications for social policy and professional practices. In this article it is argued that responses must be based on a more thorough definition. of ‘elder abuse’. A distinction between acts which can be regarded as ‘abuse’ and those which could be seen as ‘criminal’ is seen to be necessary for the development of policy and practice, recognising that these two ideas are grounded…
Involvement, Motivation, and Reorganization in a Social Services Department
This article reports aspects of research in the reorganization of a local government social services department. It focuses on the issues of involvement, participation, and motivation, utilizing classic and contemporary concepts as a basis for discussing the empirical evidence. It is argued that the intention to allow greater participation foundered on the paradox that these changes lacked the explicit direction which became necessary in the cont…
Like bees round the honeypot’ social work responses to parents with mental health needs
When service users with mental health needs also are parents social work, along with other professions, often has tended to separate these roles, with unhelpful consequences. This article reports research which looked at the views of parents with mental health needs concerning professional responses, focusing particularly on social work. It examines their experiences of parenting and mental health difficulties in relation to social workers' respo…
Combatting Gender Oppression: Applying Intersectionality in Microfinance Self-help Groups
Searching for Virtue Ethics: A Survey of Social Work Ethics Curriculum and Educators
This article discusses whether, and to what extent, virtue ethics is covered in the social work ethics curriculum and views of social work ethics educators in Australia. Drawing on a survey of social work ethics curriculum and education, it presents the nature and scope of social work ethics subjects in terms of learning outcomes; overall curriculum content; textbooks used; teaching approaches, challenges and strategies for teaching; and social w…
Social Work and the Ethics of Involuntary Treatment for Anorexia Nervosa: A Postmodern Approach
The debate on the ethics of involuntary treatment for Anorexia Nervosa (AN) is dominated by biomedical ethics approaches to the issues. In keeping with the biomedical ethics emphasis on objectively balancing ethical principles, the debate centres on how to respect the autonomy of persons with AN who refuse treatment whilst protecting these persons from harm. Commentators discuss this at a normative ethics level. Thus, the debate does not address …
Social Issues and Social Work: A Shifting Terrain
Rehabiliation and community care in mental health (1): Some implications for practice
This article examines a community based mental health service in the context of theories and practices in rehabilitation. The implications for the roles of professionals involved in rehabilitation and community care are then explored. In particular a paradox for workers in rehabilitative care, that certain forms of intervention may appear simultaneously necessary and detrimental, is highlighted and its resolution through the involvement of servic…
Rehabilitation and community care in mental health (2): Aspects of care in the community
To be a reality, mental health care in the community requires a range of appropriate services, and practices within them. This article examines one such service, a rehabilitation and community support unit, looking at the ways in which it provides community care. Questions are raised about the risks of creating new forms of institutionalism, in long term use of services, in an insufficient diversity of services and in the concentration of people …
Power in Caring Professions
The issue of power is central in the analysis of the development and contemporary structures of nursing, the remedial therapies and social work. Both the idea of caring and the concept of professionalism are integral to the problems of power. Using material from the UK and the USA, this book examines the growth of these professions, and asks a critical perspective of their present organisation, highlighting race, gender and relationships with ser…
Like bees round the honeypot’ social work responses to parents with mental health needs
When service users with mental health needs also are parents social work, along with other professions, often has tended to separate these roles, with unhelpful consequences. This article reports research which looked at the views of parents with mental health needs concerning professional responses, focusing particularly on social work. It examines their experiences of parenting and mental health difficulties in relation to social workers' respo…
Involvement, Motivation, and Reorganization in a Social Services Department
This article reports aspects of research in the reorganization of a local government social services department. It focuses on the issues of involvement, participation, and motivation, utilizing classic and contemporary concepts as a basis for discussing the empirical evidence. It is argued that the intention to allow greater participation foundered on the paradox that these changes lacked the explicit direction which became necessary in the cont…
Ageing and the Care of Older People in Europe
As the population of all European countries ages rapidly, understanding the phenomenon of ageing and social responses to old age has become a vital contemporary issue. The diverse ways in which old ag
Social Work and Case Management in the UK: Models of Professionalism and Elderly People
Discrimination against old age and work with elderly people are evident in the practices and organisation of caring professions, of which social work may be taken as an example because of its central role in community care provision. This article examines the implications for the status of professional social work with elderly people of recent proposals to develop the role of care manager in place of the case management model developed in Kent an…
Ageing and the Care of Older People in Europe
The Implications of the Term ‘Elder Abuse’ for Problem Definition and Response in Health and Social Welfare
Elder abuse’ has recently emerged as an important phenomenon, with implications for social policy and professional practices. In this article it is argued that responses must be based on a more thorough definition. of ‘elder abuse’. A distinction between acts which can be regarded as ‘abuse’ and those which could be seen as ‘criminal’ is seen to be necessary for the development of policy and practice, recognising that these two ideas are grounded…
Professionalization in social work: The challenge of diversity
Ageing, occupation and social engagement: Towards a lively later life
Recent critical work in social gerontology has established that the dominant popular view of old age as a time of steady decline and withdrawal from ordinary life is a social construction. This image is the product of urbanised industrial society, over more than a century, in which older people have often been characterised as passive. Later life has become constructed as time without occupation. This article examines recent challenges to such ‘n…
East-West Dialogue in Social Work for Older People and Their Families
This paper examines issues of family care in eastern and western societies. Through a discussion of the notion of “filial piety”, it is argued that the family remains the central social institution providing care for those older people who are in need, both in eastern and western societies. From this analysis, it is suggested that there are comparative lessons to be learned in the way social work with older people and their families is conceptual…
Older people and their families: Rethinking the social work task
The place of aged care in social work has long been ambiguous, if not marginal. Social work (as do other comparable professions) often displays a reluctance to place practice in this field within the core of the profession that embodies aspects of ageism in contemporary society. Working with older people is frequently characterised as ‘mundane’, ‘routine’ and even ‘not “real” social work’. This paper examines the practice implications of the curr…
Professional ethics in social work: Living with the legacy
Until recently, professional ethics in social work has often been characterised in terms of a debate between Kantian and Utilitarian approaches. However, both these approaches are founded on a common basis in universalism and liberal individualism, which have been challenged by current developments in social theory. This paper examines the implications of such changes for social work ethics and considers how the profession can think about living …
Professional Values and Ethics in Social Work: Reconsidering Postmodernism
The ‘postmodern turn’ in social theory has raised questions for understanding the social world. The implications of these debates for social work values and ethics are the central focus of this article. The implications of a postmodern view of social work are examined and compared with criticisms of postmodern theory. It is argued that a critical consideration of postmodern insights may assist social work to examine the diverse, provisional and u…
Australia's leading social work authors: The devil in the detail
New Approaches in Ethics for the Caring Professions
Ethics are central to the caring professions. The very idea of a profession stakes a claim on the ethical basis of knowledge and skills. In this book Richard Hugman examines new approaches in ethics a
Social Issues and Social Work: A Shifting Terrain
Looking Back: The View from Here
Journal Article Looking Back: The View from Here Get access Richard Hugman Richard Hugman Professor of Social Work and Head of the School of Social Work at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Correspondence to Professor Richard Hugman, School of Social Work, University of New South Wales, Sydney 2052 NSW, Australia. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British J…
Le pouvoir des professionnels dans la réadaptation: Exemple d’un groupe d’usagers du service social
La réadaptation, en santé mentale, s'est éloignée progressivement de son objectif de maximisation du fonctionnement individuel, pour s'intéresser plutôt aux moyens qui pourraient aider les malades mentaux à interagir assez bien avec leur environnement et gagner en autonomie dans leur vie quotidienne (Wing, 1980). La réadaptation est alors apparue comme un processus plutôt que comme un événement (Sheppard, 1984). En d'autres mots, la réadaptation …
Developing social work in Vietnam
English There has been a growing recognition in Vietnam (since the 1986 economic reforms) that professional social work is required to respond effectively to social problems. This article presents findings from a government and UNICEF-sponsored study undertaken to examine developments in social work. These are considered in relation to the profession globally. French Au Vietnam, on reconnaît de plus en plus, depuis les réformes é conomiques de 19…
Global Ethics for Social Work: Problems and Possibilities—Papers from the Ethics & Social Welfare Symposium, Durban, July 2008
This piece comprises short presentations given by contributors to a symposium organized by the journal Ethics & Social Welfare on the theme of global ethics for social work. The contributors offer their reflections on the extent to which universally accepted international statements of ethical principles in social work are possible or useful, engaging with debates about cultural diversity, relativism and the relevance of human rights in non-Weste…
Ethics in a World of Difference
International statements about social work ethics have been criticized as imposing Western values in non-Western contexts. Two forms of this criticism can be identified in recent literature, one ‘strong’ in that it calls for each cultural context to generate its own relevant values, the other ‘qualified’ in that while it seeks basic common values it calls for these to be interpreted with cultural sensitivity. Such arguments raise a particular pro…
Social Work Values: Equity or Equality? A Response to Solas
Social work values
Morals, Rights and Practice in the Human Services: Effective and Fair Decision-making in Health, Social Care and Criminal Justice
Morals, Rights and Practice in the Human Services: Effective and Fair Decision-making in Health, Social Care and Criminal Justice Marie Connolly & Tony Ward London & Philadelphia, Jessica Kingsley
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