Challenging Social Work: The Institutional Context of Practice

ISBN-13: 9781403935458 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 256 str.

Catherine McDonald

Opis

This book explores the challenges facing social work, prepares readers for the realities of practice, and engages the reader in a comprehensive, theoretically informed yet accessible analysis of why social work needs to reconstitute itself.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements.- PART ONE.- Preface to Part One.- The Professional Project in the Context of Change.- Modernity, Social Work and the Welfare State.- Challenging Social Work: The Economics of Change.- Challenging Social Work: The Politics of Change.- Challenging Social Work: The Ideas of Change.- Reconstructing Practitioners.- Reconstructing Service Users.- PART TWO.- Preface to Part Two.- Entrepreneurial Social Work.- Evidence-Based Practice.- Critical Practice.- Global Social Work.- Thinking Our Way Forward.- Bibliography.

O autorze

CATHERINE MCDONALD is Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Work and Applied Human Sciences, University of Queensland, Australia. She has published widely on social work and social policy and has a particular interest in the impact of welfare reform on social work.