Trust and confidence
Possibilities for social work in 'high modernity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10895447 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Charles Smith (0000-0003-4308-7348, University of Manchester, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 287-305 |
| Publication date | 2001-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The British Journal of Social Work (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0045-3102 • E-ISSN: 1468-263X |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/bjsw/31.2.287 |
| OpenAlex | W2101844425 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 55 |
| References cited | 14 |
Those who argue that social work has become 'postmodern' also suggest that the demise of foundational knowledge must introduce uncertainty and ambiguity into social worker-service user interactions. Furthermore, if the basis for probability calculations is fatally flawed, then a dependence on risk assessment and risk management can no longer be tenable. Under these conditions Parton (1998) suggests that social work must re-discover trust between Government, managers and social workers and between social workers and service users. In this paper I argue that Parton's analysis of trust is radically incomplete and that a more detailed understanding of the relationship between trust and confidence indicates the very limited possibilities for trust to re-emerge or to survive under current conditions. While I attempt to persuade the reader that trust is necessary for social work, it is evident that Government prefers confidence to trust. This means that trust can only be practised at the margins of social work, where it is relatively invisible and does not pose a threat to the pre-eminent concern with confidence.
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Risk and Uncertainty in the Social Sciences
Reframing Social Citizenship
Trusting in Social Work
An Unfinished Reflexive Journey
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Changes in the Form of Knowledge in Social Work
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A Marriage Made in Hell
Working positively with the media to protect children
Challenges in dealing with involuntary clients
Growing Community Resilience from the Grassroots
Implementing Schwartz Rounds in children's social care
Trust, accountability and choice
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Trust and Health Care
Navigating Trust
Jo Campling Memorial Prize Essay
Assumptive Worlds and Images of Agency
Social work g uanxi
What's at risk? The proliferation of risk across child and youth policy in England
Sociological approaches to risk
Social workers' attitudes towards female victims of domestic violence
Safeguarding children
A relationship‐based approach to engaging involuntary clients
Understanding looked‐after childhoods
From Seebohm to Think Family
Maintaining leisure values in adventure recreation events
Regulating the road of good intentions
Developing Social Work Professional Judgment Skills
What Have the Feminists Done for Us? Feminist Theory and Organizational Resistance
The Role of Bureaucratic Procedures and ‘Caring Professionals’ in Fostering User Trust
Risk, governance and the experience of care
Trust Development in Street-Based Outreach
The multicultural paradox
Trust inspires trust
Institutional Sources of Citizens’ Trust in the Welfare State
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The Munro Review of Child Protection
Autopoietic Law and the ‘Epistemic Trap’
Exploring Relationships of Trust in ‘Adventure’ Recreation
Challenges to practice and knowledge in child welfare social work
Governmental Rationales for Installing Electronic Information Systems
The Impact of the 2005 Mental Capacity Act on Social Workers' Decision Making and Approaches to the Assessment of Risk
Child Protection in New Zealand
Trust and complexities of multicultural social work
Relationship-Based Social Work and Its Compatibility with the Person-Centred Approach
Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Choice and Values
Public service interpreting and the politics of entitlement for new entrants to the United Kingdom
Outing the Elephants
Why do people cooperate with medical research? Findings from three studies
Exploring sensemaking of trust through the lens of time
The life of children in care in Denmark
The Problem of Trust
Children's rights
At the Edge of the Frame
The Rise of Relativism
Dragged to Market
Beyond Retroduction? -- Hermeneutics, Reflexivity and Social Work Practice
Risk, Advanced Liberalism and Child Welfare
A Consumer Study of Young People's Views on their Educational Social Worker
Mapping Child-Care Social Work in the Final Years of the Twentieth Century
Practice Validity, Reflexivity and Knowledge for Social Work
Child Abuse and the Bureaucratisation of Social Work
Claims to expert knowledge and the subversion of democracy
Government, authority and expertise in advanced liberalism
Trust, Confidence and Voluntary Organisations
| Unique citing works | 55 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,2 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2026 (26) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 53 |