Palgrave Handbook of Neuroinclusive Social Work

Hanna Bertilsdotter Rosqvist is Professor in Social Work at Karlstad University, Sweden, with expertise in neurodiversity and neurodivergence. She edited The Palgrave Handbook of Research Methods and Ethics in Neurodiversity Studies (with D. Jackson-Perry) published in 2024. Lesley Deacon is Associate Professor of Practice Research at the University of Sunderland, UK. Her areas of interest are neurodiversity and practice research, particularly safeguarding and lived experience of parent-carers. Jenni Guthrie is Senior Lecturer in Social Work at the University of Winchester, Uk, Doctoral Researcher in Social Work and Social Care at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, and director of Neuro Inclusive Solutions. All three editors are neurodivergent.

• Part I: Towards Neuro-Inclusive Social Work: setting the scene.- Chapter 1. Introduction (Hanna Bertilsdotter Rosqvist, Lesley Deacon and Jenni Guthrie).- Chapter 2. The wicked nature of neurodivergent needs: centring knowledges from the inside, learnings from other minoritised identities within social work (Hanna Bertilsdotter Rosqvist, Lesley Deacon, Jenni Guthrie and Aga M. Buckley).- Chapter 3. Neurodivergent needs from the outside, social work with neurodivergent populations from a distance (Hanna Bertilsdotter Rosqvist, Lesley Deacon and Jenni Guthrie).- Chapter 4. Entering neuro-inclusive social work(Hanna Bertilsdotter Rosqvist, Lesley Deacon and Jenni Guthrie).- Chapter 5. Capturing Context: Neuro-inclusion/exclusion in international social work (Jenni Guthrie, Mary Ayim, Caitlin Hughes, Lill Hultman, Elle Winterwood, Vesle Krey, Aga M. Buckley and Ilse Noens).- Part II: Neuro-inclusive professional development and leadership.- Chapter 6: Developing a Community Space for Neurodivergent Social Workers (Jenni Guthrie, Eilis Long, Lubna Mushtaq and Ray Kathryn Radnell).- Chapter 7. Black female dyslexic social workers: overcoming systematic barriers in the profession (Arlene Weekes).- Chapter 8. An auto-ethnographical account of the intersectionality of racism, neurodivergence and work using critical self-reflexivity and the minority stress model (Rachel Finn).- Chapter 9. ‘It’s about adapting to the person, not the label’: the application of neurodiversity to social care practice needs time (Lesley Deacon, Lucy Mortimer, Chantahl Rodwell, Kate Aspray, Lindsey Salkeld, Louise Colley, Colette Rankin, Natalie Bell, Andrew Robson and Anna Yoxall).- Chapter 10. What? So What? Now What? - Developing a reflexive model for neuro-inclusive supervision relationships (Florence Smith and Jo Williams).- Chapter 11. Becoming a reflective neurodivergent social work supervisor(Jo Williams, Jenni Guthrie, Andrea McCarthy and Florence Smith).- Chapter 12. ‘Being ‘and ‘Doing’ neurodivergent reflexivity in social work practice (Jenni Guthrie and Lill Hultman).- Chapter 13. Autism in social work management (Dan Wilkins).- Chapter 14. Neuroqueering Professionalism in Social Work: Relational Ethics and the Art of Unbecoming (Caitlin Hughes).- Part III: Neuro-inclusive Social Work Practice.- Chapter 15. Neurodiversity-affirmative psychoeducation: co-creating psychoeducation through community materials(Lies Van Den Plas, Eleonora Tilkin-Franssens, Lora-Elly Vannieuwenhuysen and Ilse Noens).- Chapter 16. Emotion Regulation for Autistic and ADHD Clients: A Neuro-inclusive Social Work Framework (Elle L. Winterwood).- Chapter 17. Let’s talk about sex, baby! A social workers guide to neurosexual inclusive support (Vesle Krey).- Chapter 18. Towards competency, not blame: Reflections upon social work practice with autistic families. A parent-carer perspective (Alice Running).- Chapter 19. Working with parent-carers of neurodivergent children: practising neuro-inclusive social work(Lesley Deacon, Zeta Bikova, Matt Deacon, Yasmin Thurgood, Jaynie Mitchell and Melanie Barrett).- Chapter 20. Working with global majority families who have neurodivergent children (Daniella Baidoo).- Chapter 21. “Do you see us now?” Acquired Brain Injury, Neuro-inclusion, and the Hidden Faces of Social Work (Caroline J. Bald, Kate Mellor and Sam Shephard).- Chapter 22. Exploring dyslexia (and its ‘cousins’) in social work practice: from challenges to an affirming lens (Lesley Deacon and Kimberley Sempe).- Part IV: Neuro-inclusive Social Work Research.- Chapter 23. Creating an Inclusive and Relationally Attuned Research Space for Neurodivergent Participants(Jessica Dark).- Chapter 24. Creative Methods in Neuro-inclusive Social Work Research and Education (Aga M. Buckley).- Chapter 25. Researching with Neurodivergent social workers: a journey through epistemic healing to embrace research confidence (Lesley Deacon, Dean Stamp and Suzie Keyes).- Part V: Welcome to Another Social Work: Neuro-Inclusive Social Work.- Chapter 26. Introducing an inclusion passport: Complexity in the context of neuro-inclusive social work organisations(Jenni Guthrie).- Chapter 27. Concluding reflections: another kind of social work (Lesley Deacon, Hanna Bertilsdotter Rosqvist and Jenni Guthrie).