Social Work and Sexuality: Working with Lesbians and Gay Men

ISBN-13: 9780333608845 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 166 str.

Helen Cosis Brown

Opis

This important textbook offers clear and concise discussion of the key theoretical and practical issues that sexuality raises for social work. It examines how lesbian and gay politics have impacted on professional knowledge and practice and looks at the questions faced by social workers who identify as lesbian or gay. It discusses the importance of anti-discriminatory practice with lesbian and gay clients in a range of practice settings, looking specifically at work with children and families, vulnerable adults and offenders.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements.- Introduction.- Competent Anti-Discriminatory.- Social Work Practice.- Placing the Debate within its Social/Political Context.- Lesbians and Gay.- Men in Social Work.- Social Work Knowledge.- Revisited Social Work: Organisation and Context.- Children and Families.- Social Work with Adults.- Social Work and Probation.- Practice with Offenders.- Concluding Thoughts.- Relevant Organisations.- References.- Index.