What can social media do for social work practice? What are the individual, organisational challenges and opportunities? How does social media contribute to or interfere with/disrupt practice with vulnerable service users? How can we facilitate greater awareness of social media and digital skills required to utilise it amongst people we work with?
Exciting news this week as I have had my latest book proposal accepted by Sage. The book project stems from several pieces of work I have been involved in during the last couple of years with academic colleagues, practitioners and service users and is designed to illustrate the potential of using social media in social work practice, and will discuss the risks governance and accountability issues which need to be identified and explored as new technologies become commonplace in our lives.
The book will help student social workers to think about the ethical and practical issues which arise from using social media, and will provide case studies and activities which they can engage with to extend and deepen their knowledge.
I will be blogging regularly about this writing project as it develops. It would be really helpful to get practitioner perspectives and feedback from social work students as to the accessibility of the writing and what they gain from engaging with the materials in the book. If you are a student social worker who would like to join this project, or a practitioner using social media you can contact me here. The publishers have agreed that reviewers can receive a free copy of the book when it is published.
