Suzy Croft
Biographic Data
| ID | 4581079 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Suzy Croft |
| GIVEN NAMES | Suzy |
| FAMILY NAME | Croft |
| SIGNATURE | CROFT S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hospice UK |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Social Work
Social work is a relatively young helping profession that has been at the forefront of addressing political, social, and cultural changes. Its contested origins and combined control and support roles mean that it continues to have an uncertain status, but it has been a pioneer in developing participatory approaches to theory and methods. It now has a global role and reach and offers insights for understanding and engaging with emerging social iss…
Mad matters
Palliative care within mental health
Palliative Care, Social Work and Service Users
This unique book provides a rare look at social work and palliative care from the perspective of service users. It is the first to investigate specialist palliative care social work from this viewpoint." "Drawing on new original research, the authors examine service users' experiences of social work and palliative care, tracking their journeys through it and exploring the care they receive and the effects of culture and difference through their f…
Critical Social Policy special issue
Reply to
It's our problem too ! Challenging the exclusion of poor people from poverty discourse
Poverty discourse is characterised by the exclusion of people with experience of poverty. This has shaped the nature of both debate and policy responses. This discussion looks at the reasons for this ex clusion, the effects it has had and makes the case for an inclusive poverty discourse as the basis for the reconceptualisation of poverty and the development of more effective strategies to deal with it
Citizen Involvement
This book offers the first introduction and practical guide to increasing people's say and involvement in their lives, neighbourhood and services. It draws on a major study of initiatives to involve a
The politics of participation
User-involvement, citizenship and social policy
User-involvement is emerging as a key concern in social policy. So far debates have largely been framed in narrow social administration terms. The idea embraces conflicting conceptions of consumerism and self- advocacy. Here it is considered in the broader context of citivenship and human need. Beginning with people's own experience and ideas about them, the article explores their relationship with an empowering approach to involvement which enab…
Women, caring and the recasting of need — a feminist reappraisal
Striking back for the empire
Welfare pluralism
Concepts of 'welfare pluralism' and 'the mixed economy of welfare' have recently come to increasing prominence in social policy discussions. They are used to describe a reduced role for state intervention in welfare and greater emphasis an voluntary action informal and the marker. Criti ques from the left have so far largely concentrated on their legitimating role for the right. This paper suggests that more significantly, despite occasionally pr…
The politics of participation
It's our problem too ! Challenging the exclusion of poor people from poverty discourse
Poverty discourse is characterised by the exclusion of people with experience of poverty. This has shaped the nature of both debate and policy responses. This discussion looks at the reasons for this ex clusion, the effects it has had and makes the case for an inclusive poverty discourse as the basis for the reconceptualisation of poverty and the development of more effective strategies to deal with it
User-involvement, citizenship and social policy
User-involvement is emerging as a key concern in social policy. So far debates have largely been framed in narrow social administration terms. The idea embraces conflicting conceptions of consumerism and self- advocacy. Here it is considered in the broader context of citivenship and human need. Beginning with people's own experience and ideas about them, the article explores their relationship with an empowering approach to involvement which enab…
Welfare pluralism
Concepts of 'welfare pluralism' and 'the mixed economy of welfare' have recently come to increasing prominence in social policy discussions. They are used to describe a reduced role for state intervention in welfare and greater emphasis an voluntary action informal and the marker. Criti ques from the left have so far largely concentrated on their legitimating role for the right. This paper suggests that more significantly, despite occasionally pr…
Women, caring and the recasting of need — a feminist reappraisal
Mad matters
Striking back for the empire
Welfare pluralism
Concepts of 'welfare pluralism' and 'the mixed economy of welfare' have recently come to increasing prominence in social policy discussions. They are used to describe a reduced role for state intervention in welfare and greater emphasis an voluntary action informal and the marker. Criti ques from the left have so far largely concentrated on their legitimating role for the right. This paper suggests that more significantly, despite occasionally pr…
Striking back for the empire
Women, caring and the recasting of need — a feminist reappraisal
User-involvement, citizenship and social policy
User-involvement is emerging as a key concern in social policy. So far debates have largely been framed in narrow social administration terms. The idea embraces conflicting conceptions of consumerism and self- advocacy. Here it is considered in the broader context of citivenship and human need. Beginning with people's own experience and ideas about them, the article explores their relationship with an empowering approach to involvement which enab…
The politics of participation
Citizen Involvement
This book offers the first introduction and practical guide to increasing people's say and involvement in their lives, neighbourhood and services. It draws on a major study of initiatives to involve a
It's our problem too ! Challenging the exclusion of poor people from poverty discourse
Poverty discourse is characterised by the exclusion of people with experience of poverty. This has shaped the nature of both debate and policy responses. This discussion looks at the reasons for this ex clusion, the effects it has had and makes the case for an inclusive poverty discourse as the basis for the reconceptualisation of poverty and the development of more effective strategies to deal with it
Reply to
Critical Social Policy special issue
Palliative Care, Social Work and Service Users
This unique book provides a rare look at social work and palliative care from the perspective of service users. It is the first to investigate specialist palliative care social work from this viewpoint." "Drawing on new original research, the authors examine service users' experiences of social work and palliative care, tracking their journeys through it and exploring the care they receive and the effects of culture and difference through their f…
Palliative care within mental health
Mad matters
Social Work
Social work is a relatively young helping profession that has been at the forefront of addressing political, social, and cultural changes. Its contested origins and combined control and support roles mean that it continues to have an uncertain status, but it has been a pioneer in developing participatory approaches to theory and methods. It now has a global role and reach and offers insights for understanding and engaging with emerging social iss…
Sociology (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (4 works) · Public relations (3 works) · Social policy (3 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (2 works) · Political economy (2 works)