دانلود کتاب Speaking to power : advocacy for health and social care

Anyone working, or planning to work, as an advocate for people who need help in dealing with public services will want to read this book. Based on the experience of real advocates and using case studies based on real practice issues, "Speaking to power" is written in a vivid, jargon-free style that will make it an enjoyable read for professionals, students and lay people alike. Content: Speaking to power; Contents; Why and how we wrote this book; Introduction; 1. Origins of advocacy; 2. Scotland gives a lead; 3. What advocates do: their main clients; 4. What advocates do: questions and dilemmas; 5. Groups and communities; 6. Setting up an advocacy project and running it; 7. Volunteers; 8. Making advocacy accountable; 9. Roadblocks; 10. Looking ahead; Further reading; Index. Abstract: Advocacy is an area of increasing importance in service provision, where new ways of working have to be found that increasingly create an enabling, rather than a providing, state. This book discusses how advocacy fits into the broader scheme of things. It describes and discusses examples of advocacy. Read more...