Meet The Authors Webinar - Florence Smith and Jenni Guthrie

Meet Florence Smith and Jenni Guthrie, authors of The Neurodivergent Social Worker: A Neuroinclusive Guide for Managers, Supervisors and Assessors

Florence and Jenni are multiply neurodivergent social workers who have written a new book aimed specifically at managers, supervisors and assessors who work in social work and social care contexts.

Using a strengths-based and neuro-affirming perspective, this book shows how managers and supervisors can understand, value, and utilise the knowledge skills and values of neurodivergent social workers within teams and services. Offering frameworks, ideas, and advice on specific social work contexts such as supervision, organising, and planning work, enabling a sensory-affirming workplace, as well as developing trusted and empathic working relationships, it will help social work professionals to practice inclusively and anti-oppressively with their neurodivergent colleagues.

This book will be a useful resource for social work managers and supervisors, as well as practice educators and the wider organisation. Neurodivergent social workers will also find the information useful in terms of their own working strategies and approaches.