Whole Families

Projects

2015-16: Family inclusive policy and practice after ‘Think Family’ Knowledge Exchange, ESRC. (£102k + £150k ‘in kind’ contributions from practice agencies).

2011-14: Can whole family approaches contribute to the reablement of people with mental health difficulties? National Institute of Health Research - School for Social Care Research. (£170k)

Staff

Professor Tarsem Singh Cooner

Professor of Social Work and Digital Media

Tarsem is a Professor of Social Work and Digital Technology. His research has been funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and Local Authorities. Tarsem has recently worked on two major research projects, the first entitled ‘Organisations, staff support and the dynamics and quality of social work practice: A qualitative longitudinal study of child protection work’ and the ...

Telephone: +44(0)121 414 8184
Email: t.s.cooner@bham.ac.uk

Professor Jerry Tew

Professor of Mental Health and Social Work

Jerry is currently leading national research for the Department of Health Policy Research Programme to explore how Local Authorities (and their partners) are responding to the challenge, embedded in the Care Act, to build capacity so as to ‘prevent, reduce or delay’ the need for social care services. He is also co-investigator in the ODESSI trial led by Prof Stephen Pilling at ...

Telephone: +44(0)121 414 3640
Email: j.j.c.tew@bham.ac.uk

Publications

Tew, J, Nicholls, V, Plumridge, G and Clarke, H (2016) Family-inclusive approaches to reablement in mental health: models, mechanisms and outcomes. British Journal of Social Work DOI:/10.1093/bjsw/bcw106

Cooner, T.S. (2014) Using Facebook to explore boundary issues for social workers in a networked society: students’ perceptions of learning. British Journal of Social Work. 44(4), 1063-1080. DOI/10.1093/bjsw/bcs208

Tew, J (2013) Asset based approaches and ‘troubled families’: can the discourses join up? Families, Relationships and Societies 2:3 467-470 DOI:10.1332/204674313X13806230862894

Tew J and Nixon, J (2010) Parent abuse: opening up a discussion of a complex instance of family power relations. Social Policy and Society 9:4 579-589 DOI:10.1017/S1474746410000291

Professor Tarsem Singh Cooner

Professor Jerry Tew

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