Book description
'Work Discussion brings together a combination of close observation of,
and personal and interpersonal responses to, the minutiae of the work
setting and its dynamics, both internal and external. Such a model
depends on the development of hard-won capacities, and the descriptions
offered here, both by students and by experienced staff, fully
demonstrate the immense relevance of the approach, both to training and
to a wide variety of work situations. The book first outlines the
process of the method itself, followed by descriptions of a range of
settings, both in Britain and abroad, in which that method has been
successfully applied. The contributors draw on experiences across age,
culture, and race in, for example, schools, hospitals, residential
homes, in a prison, and in a refugee community. The final chapter
explores the implications of work discussion for research and
policy-making more generally. Many of the situations narrated here are
extreme, whether in terms of disturbance or of vulnerability, but these
pages offer often moving insights into how effective the method can be
and how truly impressive a developmental model it provides.' - Margot
Waddell, from the Series Editor's Preface
