Book contents
- Learning through Social Work Stories-that-Matter
- Learning through Social Work Stories-that-Matter
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Meet the Editors
- Meet the Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part IStorying-to-Learn: How Stories-that-Matter Help Us Appreciate Social Work in Action
- Chapter 3The Shortest Distance between Two People Is a Story
- Chapter 4The Gift of Social Work
- Chapter 5Dreams, Reality, and Invisibility
- Chapter 6Who Do I Want to Be as a Social Worker?
- Chapter 7Social Work in Need of Activism
- Chapter 8On My Toes
- Chapter 9A Story of Love, Family, and Mental Health
- Chapter 10Pieces of Walnut
- Chapter 11“Kurdistan Is My Country”
- Chapter 12Living in a Pause
- Chapter 13Promissory Notes and Other Forms of Consent
- Chapter 14For Some People You Make a Difference, You Carry Their Hope
- Chapter 15Partner in Decolonization
- Chapter 16Human Rights Approaches of Pashtun Tahafuz Movement
- Chapter 17Empathy from Origin
- Chapter 18Welfare Transitions in an Agrarian Community
- Chapter 19Former Refugee Youth in Rural Northern Norway
- Chapter 20Social Work
- Chapter 21Reflections on Psychiatric Social Work in an African Setting
- Part IILenses and Lessons
- Index
Chapter 10 - Pieces of Walnut
from Part I - Storying-to-Learn: How Stories-that-Matter Help Us Appreciate Social Work in Action
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 August 2025
Book contents
- Learning through Social Work Stories-that-Matter
- Learning through Social Work Stories-that-Matter
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Meet the Editors
- Meet the Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part IStorying-to-Learn: How Stories-that-Matter Help Us Appreciate Social Work in Action
- Chapter 3The Shortest Distance between Two People Is a Story
- Chapter 4The Gift of Social Work
- Chapter 5Dreams, Reality, and Invisibility
- Chapter 6Who Do I Want to Be as a Social Worker?
- Chapter 7Social Work in Need of Activism
- Chapter 8On My Toes
- Chapter 9A Story of Love, Family, and Mental Health
- Chapter 10Pieces of Walnut
- Chapter 11“Kurdistan Is My Country”
- Chapter 12Living in a Pause
- Chapter 13Promissory Notes and Other Forms of Consent
- Chapter 14For Some People You Make a Difference, You Carry Their Hope
- Chapter 15Partner in Decolonization
- Chapter 16Human Rights Approaches of Pashtun Tahafuz Movement
- Chapter 17Empathy from Origin
- Chapter 18Welfare Transitions in an Agrarian Community
- Chapter 19Former Refugee Youth in Rural Northern Norway
- Chapter 20Social Work
- Chapter 21Reflections on Psychiatric Social Work in an African Setting
- Part IILenses and Lessons
- Index
Summary
1. How do you feel about caring for someone with dementia? 2. What are the human rights issues in this story? 3. What role does empathy play when caring for someone with dementia? 4. What are the issues for you when one sibling wants their elderly mother to have homecare and the other to send her to a care home? 5. What issues of service co-ordination arise from the story? 6. What are the safeguarding issues in this story?
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- Learning through Social Work Stories-That-MatterGlobal Perspectives, pp. 136 - 149Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025
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