Leadership in social work

In many healthcare disciplines, leadership has recently become one of the most important principles guiding professional practice towards quality care and services. For this reason, leadership is now taught in initial and continuing training courses and structures the various quality support strategies in these disciplines. This book presents the international foundations of leadership, developing and applying them specifically to social work. Social workers, trainers and their students, social work supervisors and managers will find not only the key concepts they need to master the fundamentals of leadership, but also a set of materials enabling them to apply them in their work context. The book also shows how leadership fits easily and usefully into the current foundations of social work, helping to integrate them into a modern conception of leadership-based professionalism. In this way, the book makes it possible to think about tomorrow's social work, on a collective level, and social workers' relationship to work, on an individual level. In this way, the book supports both the modernization of the discipline and the professional development of individual social workers. In so doing, the introduction of the principle of leadership in social work makes it possible to affirm a work ethic in which individual and collective commitment to the quality of intervention becomes an essential condition of individual well-being at work.