Helpful Social Work Podcast

In this episode, our first 'b' podcast for series 3, we start our exploration of what we can learn from different disciplines. We consider what we can learn from biology and psychology: how we can slow down; be reflexive; and understand why we and others are behaving as we are.

Topics covered in Series 3 include, how social workers work with people and how we can learn and draw from other disciplines.

Welcome to the first podcast for Series 3. In our 'a' podcasts this series we are looking at the social work journey, starting here with first contact. We discuss how we can overcome barriers to make our first encounter with someone helpful and hopeful.

In this podcast, the last in series 2, we discuss what's happened over the last year in social work. We look at new learning, the importance of relationships and the need to shape our context in the year ahead.

This podcast summarises our approach to series 1 and 2. We started with the importance of integrity and then took an ecological approach to consider ourselves, our relationships and our context. We discuss the importance of biology, behaviour and the environment in social work; and we look at how our approaches to attachment, emotional regulation and competence affect us.

In this podcast we consider how we can use targets positively and take different approaches to learning from good practice. And how we can avoid a focus on compliance and blame.

How do we know what difference we make? This podcast considers the ethics and practice of social work evaluation.

In this podcast we continue to explore the conflicts at the heart of the social work role. How can we ethically use and share our power?

This podcast explores the impact of scrutiny on social work. We discuss how social workers can influence public understanding, including through social media.

In this podcast we start to look at the conflicts at the heart of the social work role. How do we respond to influences - our own and society's - that push us into controlling rather than helping? How do we use our power well?