Author Michael Preston-Shoot: Michael Preston-Shoot is an Independent Chair of both a safeguarding vulnerable adults board and a local safeguarding children board. He has researched and written extensively on social work law, and also on social work education and service user experiences of service provision.

• IntroductionDefining the Theory (1): Psychodynamics Defining the Theory (2): Systems Towards a Working Synthesis for the Person-in-situationCriticisms, Myths and ParodiesSocial Work and SocietyMaking Sense of Social WorkTasks Supervision, Consultation, and Individual and Organisational TanglesPostscript: Openings into Closed Systems.

Author Michael Preston-Shoot: Michael Preston-Shoot is an Independent Chair of both a safeguarding vulnerable adults board and a local safeguarding children board. He has researched and written extensively on social work law, and also on social work education and service user experiences of service provision.

• IntroductionDefining the Theory (1): Psychodynamics Defining the Theory (2): Systems Towards a Working Synthesis for the Person-in-situationCriticisms, Myths and ParodiesSocial Work and SocietyMaking Sense of Social WorkTasks Supervision, Consultation, and Individual and Organisational TanglesPostscript: Openings into Closed Systems.

Author Michael Preston-Shoot: Michael Preston-Shoot is an Independent Chair of both a safeguarding vulnerable adults board and a local safeguarding children board. He has researched and written extensively on social work law, and also on social work education and service user experiences of service provision.

• IntroductionDefining the Theory (1): Psychodynamics Defining the Theory (2): Systems Towards a Working Synthesis for the Person-in-situationCriticisms, Myths and ParodiesSocial Work and SocietyMaking Sense of Social WorkTasks Supervision, Consultation, and Individual and Organisational TanglesPostscript: Openings into Closed Systems.