Driven by a synthetic analysis of some of the factors that contribute to the outline of new social care scenarios, which require organisational and management layouts inspired by relevant, appropriate and innovative systems of health governance, this paper offers a theoretical reflection on the role of social work within the processes of planning and supply of social services, in community care contexts. Attention is focused on the concepts of self-care, interdisciplinarity and professional integration as determinants of the cultural transition to relational care models, which replace the formal and reductionist logic of service with approaches inspired by dialogistic rationality of the planning of health and social rehabilitation programmes tailored to specific needs, in order to strengthen users' resilience. Besides the obsolete technocratic vision of planning (in particular health policies), which strongly affects professional reflection and the renewal of practices that are congenitally non-standardisable and, let alone, routinised, said approach shuns the normative and bureaucratic determinism of well-established procedures and, in particular, seems to challenge social professions to claim a crucial role, symmetric and fully equivalent to that of medical and health professions in defining health needs, which is essential for the personalisation, contingency and concomitant rooting of intervention measures.

Community Care and Professions: What is the Role of Social work?

VENNERI E
2016-01-01

Abstract

Driven by a synthetic analysis of some of the factors that contribute to the outline of new social care scenarios, which require organisational and management layouts inspired by relevant, appropriate and innovative systems of health governance, this paper offers a theoretical reflection on the role of social work within the processes of planning and supply of social services, in community care contexts. Attention is focused on the concepts of self-care, interdisciplinarity and professional integration as determinants of the cultural transition to relational care models, which replace the formal and reductionist logic of service with approaches inspired by dialogistic rationality of the planning of health and social rehabilitation programmes tailored to specific needs, in order to strengthen users' resilience. Besides the obsolete technocratic vision of planning (in particular health policies), which strongly affects professional reflection and the renewal of practices that are congenitally non-standardisable and, let alone, routinised, said approach shuns the normative and bureaucratic determinism of well-established procedures and, in particular, seems to challenge social professions to claim a crucial role, symmetric and fully equivalent to that of medical and health professions in defining health needs, which is essential for the personalisation, contingency and concomitant rooting of intervention measures.
2016
Community care, Professional identity, Health and social integration, Interdisciplinarity, Social work
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