David Saltiel
Biographic Data
| ID | 6024423 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Saltiel |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Saltiel |
| SIGNATURE | SALTIEL D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leeds |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7539-7247 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
When Social Workers Impact Policy and Don’t Just Implement It
The title of this book might provoke a mirthless laugh from your averagely hard-pressed social worker struggling with scant resources, increasingly, desperate service users and managers who seek to control their every action.The dominant model of the relationship between social workers and social policy is a top-down one with social workers seen as mere implementers of policy, albeit irreverent and resistant ones as the authors nicely put it.Can …
A New History of Social Work
What can a historical perspective teach us? Pierson argues that taking a ‘social justice’ perspective to history uncovers social work’s past prejudices and examines its relationship to a changing society. The risk is to assume that current attitudes are the ideal and to apply them to the past without properly considering the historical context but Pierson takes a more judicious approach—he’s alive to the prejudices and oppressions of the past whi…
Pride and Shame in Child and Family Social Work
How do we define what we mean by terms such as ‘pride’, ‘shame’ and ‘guilt’? Are they biological entities triggered by external events or socially constructed transactions that allow us to negotiate our way through the cultures we live in? Gibson’s thesis, grounded in constructionist sociology, is that emotions, or the meanings they are freighted with, are largely socially constructed and shame (and guilt) and pride can be used in a Foucauldian s…
Poverty (2nd edn), Ruth Lister
Do social workers think enough about the poverty experienced by so many of their service users? Recent research (Morris et al., 2018) suggests not, and that its effects are obscured because of a focus on other risk factors such as problematic drug use and domestic abuse which come to serve as proxies for poverty itself. And I am writing at a time when the COVID pandemic is glaringly exposing the inequalities in our affluent society. Ruth Lister i…
Applying Research Evidence in Social Work Practice Martin Webber
Applying Research Evidence in Social Work Practice Martin Webber Applying Research Evidence in Social Work Practice Martin Webber London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, pp. vii + 260, ISBN 978 1 137 27610 0, £26.00 (p/b) David Saltiel David Saltiel Lecturer in Social Work, University of Leeds [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Social Work, bcaa070, https://doi.org/10.10…
Analysing invisibility
The decisions social workers make are often under the spotlight. Increasingly professional decision‐making is seen not as a stand‐alone single act but a continuum shaped by a range of factors making up a decision ecology. Social work has been described as an invisible trade, and one of its most private and invisible arenas is the home visit. Despite being a long established core activity in social work and an important site for social work judgem…
Developing a typology of mobile phone usage in social care
The ways in which mobile phones have transformed the boundaries of time and space and the possibilities of communication have profoundly affected our lives. However, there is little research on the use of mobiles in social care though evidence is emerging that mobile phones can play an important role in delivering services. This paper is based on a scoping review of the international literature in this area. A typology of mobile interventions is …
Observing Front Line Decision Making in Child Protection
The nature and quality of social work decision making have been highlighted in recent years by a number of high-profile child deaths. Recognising and assessing child abuse is beset with uncertainties and complexities that profoundly shape practice yet are often overlooked by more official and distanced accounts. This paper draws on ethnographic data from a study of social workers' decision making to uncover some of the issues they faced in gather…
Understanding complexity in families' lives
An important aspect of the uncertainty that surrounds social workers' decision‐making in child protection situations concerns the complex, unconventional nature of the families referred for social work interventions. In a study of social work decision‐making, social workers struggled to make sense of these families and assess whether they were safe places for children. More recent sociological studies have emphasized the fluidity and diversity of…
Observing Front Line Decision Making in Child Protection
The nature and quality of social work decision making have been highlighted in recent years by a number of high-profile child deaths. Recognising and assessing child abuse is beset with uncertainties and complexities that profoundly shape practice yet are often overlooked by more official and distanced accounts. This paper draws on ethnographic data from a study of social workers' decision making to uncover some of the issues they faced in gather…
Understanding complexity in families' lives
An important aspect of the uncertainty that surrounds social workers' decision‐making in child protection situations concerns the complex, unconventional nature of the families referred for social work interventions. In a study of social work decision‐making, social workers struggled to make sense of these families and assess whether they were safe places for children. More recent sociological studies have emphasized the fluidity and diversity of…
Analysing invisibility
The decisions social workers make are often under the spotlight. Increasingly professional decision‐making is seen not as a stand‐alone single act but a continuum shaped by a range of factors making up a decision ecology. Social work has been described as an invisible trade, and one of its most private and invisible arenas is the home visit. Despite being a long established core activity in social work and an important site for social work judgem…
Understanding complexity in families' lives
An important aspect of the uncertainty that surrounds social workers' decision‐making in child protection situations concerns the complex, unconventional nature of the families referred for social work interventions. In a study of social work decision‐making, social workers struggled to make sense of these families and assess whether they were safe places for children. More recent sociological studies have emphasized the fluidity and diversity of…
Observing Front Line Decision Making in Child Protection
The nature and quality of social work decision making have been highlighted in recent years by a number of high-profile child deaths. Recognising and assessing child abuse is beset with uncertainties and complexities that profoundly shape practice yet are often overlooked by more official and distanced accounts. This paper draws on ethnographic data from a study of social workers' decision making to uncover some of the issues they faced in gather…
Developing a typology of mobile phone usage in social care
The ways in which mobile phones have transformed the boundaries of time and space and the possibilities of communication have profoundly affected our lives. However, there is little research on the use of mobiles in social care though evidence is emerging that mobile phones can play an important role in delivering services. This paper is based on a scoping review of the international literature in this area. A typology of mobile interventions is …
Analysing invisibility
The decisions social workers make are often under the spotlight. Increasingly professional decision‐making is seen not as a stand‐alone single act but a continuum shaped by a range of factors making up a decision ecology. Social work has been described as an invisible trade, and one of its most private and invisible arenas is the home visit. Despite being a long established core activity in social work and an important site for social work judgem…
Applying Research Evidence in Social Work Practice Martin Webber
Applying Research Evidence in Social Work Practice Martin Webber Applying Research Evidence in Social Work Practice Martin Webber London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, pp. vii + 260, ISBN 978 1 137 27610 0, £26.00 (p/b) David Saltiel David Saltiel Lecturer in Social Work, University of Leeds [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Social Work, bcaa070, https://doi.org/10.10…
Pride and Shame in Child and Family Social Work
How do we define what we mean by terms such as ‘pride’, ‘shame’ and ‘guilt’? Are they biological entities triggered by external events or socially constructed transactions that allow us to negotiate our way through the cultures we live in? Gibson’s thesis, grounded in constructionist sociology, is that emotions, or the meanings they are freighted with, are largely socially constructed and shame (and guilt) and pride can be used in a Foucauldian s…
Poverty (2nd edn), Ruth Lister
Do social workers think enough about the poverty experienced by so many of their service users? Recent research (Morris et al., 2018) suggests not, and that its effects are obscured because of a focus on other risk factors such as problematic drug use and domestic abuse which come to serve as proxies for poverty itself. And I am writing at a time when the COVID pandemic is glaringly exposing the inequalities in our affluent society. Ruth Lister i…
When Social Workers Impact Policy and Don’t Just Implement It
The title of this book might provoke a mirthless laugh from your averagely hard-pressed social worker struggling with scant resources, increasingly, desperate service users and managers who seek to control their every action.The dominant model of the relationship between social workers and social policy is a top-down one with social workers seen as mere implementers of policy, albeit irreverent and resistant ones as the authors nicely put it.Can …
A New History of Social Work
What can a historical perspective teach us? Pierson argues that taking a ‘social justice’ perspective to history uncovers social work’s past prejudices and examines its relationship to a changing society. The risk is to assume that current attitudes are the ideal and to apply them to the past without properly considering the historical context but Pierson takes a more judicious approach—he’s alive to the prejudices and oppressions of the past whi…
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