FRONT COVER -- Leadership in Social Care -- Contents -- Editor's Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Part I Leadership of the Profession -- 1. Leadership for 21st Century Social Work -- 2. Practitioner Leadership: How Do We Realise the Potential Within? -- 3. Supervision, Management and Leadership: Think Piece -- 4. Leadership and Management: Not Losing Sight of Both -- Part II Leadership for Collaborative Advantage -- 5. Doing Things Collaboratively: Realising the Advantage or Succumbing to Inertia? -- 6. Leading Partnerships: Learning from Study and Practice -- 7. The Work of Leadership in Formal Coalitions: Embracing Paradox for Collaboration -- 8. Collaborative Leadership: The Importance of Place-based Development -- Part III Leadership Development -- 9. Leadership and Learning: The Purpose of a Continuous Learning Framework for Social Care -- 10. Social Work Leadership and Management Development: Comparable Approaches -- 11. Lessons from Health Leadership -- 12. Learning from Current Trends in Leadership Development in Scotland -- 13. Leading Flourishing Organisations: Lessons from Positive Psychology -- The Contributors -- Subject Index -- Author Index.

This book draws together the latest research on fundamental leadership issues in social care, discussing collaborative leadership and the importance of place-based development, exploring the key disciplines of supervision, management and leadership and examining the purpose of a learning framework for social care.

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