Title: Human Services in the Age of New Technology: Harmonizing Social Work and Computerisation (Public Policy and Social Welfare, Vol 20)
Publisher: Avebury
Publication Date: 1995
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1859721281
ISBN 13: 9781859721285
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Brand New

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Part One of the book sets the scene. The first chapter discusses the reasons why computerisation has been so unsuccessful in the past and then explores a range of issues which need to be addressed in the future if computerisation is to be successful. Chapter Two looks at personal responses to computerisation amongst social workers and investigates different responses from social work agencies.
Part Two deals with conceptual, organisational and policy issues. Chapter Three tackles the issues of identity and education: What is IT? What is social work? And what is the relationship between them? Chapter Four briefly dips into organisational theory and then explores the difficulties and contradictions of computerising a hybrid, part rational, part natural systems organisational structure. Policy issues are explored in Chapter Five.
Part Three is explicitly practical. Chapter Six deals with the implementation of information technology in the social services: management issues; staff involvement; resource requirements; and information needs. Finally, Chapter Seven looks at IT in action in the social services, explicitly exploring IT innovations of direct use to social work practice which are up and running and of demonstrable benefit.

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David Phillips is Senior Lecturer and Deputy Chair of Department at the Department of Sociological Studies of the University of Sheffield, UK.

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