'I Never Asked You to Call' ... a Training Handbook for Social Carers Who Work With Reluctant Service Users

This book hopes to: - help busy practitioners understand the current social care climate, and how they can best use such understanding in their work with involuntary service users - raise the profile of involuntary clients, who are sometimes disliked, and often misunderstood - counteract the demoralisation of workers caused by overwork, constant criticism, and stress - offer a diy training course, which includes information, implications for practice, and substantial exercises to ‘ground’ the theory - highlight the positive threads interwoven in the current scene