Practising Social Work Sociologically: A Theoretical Approach for New Times

ISBN-13: 9781137548078 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 138 str.

Priscilla Dunk-West; Fiona Verity

Opis

Practising Social Work Sociologically provides readers with a theoretically based practice approach to help them orientate their sensibilities and equip them with the tools to work effectively in a world that is rapidly changing.

Spis treści

1. Contemporary Social Work Practice Across The Globe.- 2. Sociological Imaginations: Social Work Concepts and Sensibilities.- 3. Understanding Social Relationships and 'Capital'.- 4. Time in Social Work.- 5. Social Work and Space.- 6. Theorising Organisational Contexts.- 7. Self, Power and Agency.- 8. Using Research in Practice.- 9. Emotions and Emotional Labour.- 10. Conclusion

O autorze

Dr Priscilla Dunk-West is Senior Lecturer in Social Work in the School of Social and Policy Studies at Finders University, Australia. She is author of Palgrave's How to be a Social Worker.

Professor Fiona Verity is Professor of Social Work and Social Care in the College of Health and Human Sciences, Swansea University, Wales.

Blurb

Social Work has a wonderful history of engagement with creative ideas and imagination. We need more of this now. Inequality, poverty, lack of access to employment and affordable housing, and a tightening welfare system test conventional social work approaches. The speed and scale of the challenges we face demand we come back to these approaches with urgency and enthusiasm.

Practising Social Work Sociologically presents an innovative, theoretically based approach that helps students, practitioners and researchers alike orientate their view and sensibilities in a rapidly changing modern world.  By bringing sociological social work perspectives to contemporary practice, it draws on concepts from a range of disciplines in recognition that we are collective thinkers and actors and that our ideas are shaped by what we read and build upon.

Dunk-West & Verity expertly stitch together examples of academic frameworks that locate sociology as an indispensable social work art and science. A sociological perspective is a crucial foundation for practice and an essential sensibility to put the ‘social’ back in to ‘social work’.