Private Troubles or Public Issues?: Challenges for Social Work Research

ISBN-13: 9780367143251 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 300 str.

Walter Lorenz; Ian Shaw

Opis

The contributions to this book bear testimony to the value of a progressive form of academisation and the existence of discipline-specific research methods of social work education across Europe. It exemplifies the conceptualisation of different and interacting dimensions of diversity, and the defence of professionalism and discretion against encroachment by neo-liberal ideologies and cost-cutting regulations. This book was originally published as a special issue of the European Journal of Social Work.

Spis treści

Introduction: Private troubles or public issues? Challenges for social work research  1. Reconsidering the ‘idea’ of evidence in evidence-based policy and practice  2. Science and social work: a sketch  3. Reaching the person—social work research as professional responsibility  4. Standing up to complexity: researching moral panics in social work  5. Social work education in a time of national crisis in Greece: educating the workforce to combat inequalities  6. Attitudes toward poverty among exit students of undergraduate social work programs in eight Latin American countries  7. The circle of social reform: the relationship social work—social policy in Addams and Richmond  8. The street-level delivery of activation policies: constraints and possibilities for a practice of citizenship  9. Active social policies revisited by social workers  10. Investigating the quality of social work. An experience of self-assessment with Italian social workers  11. Towards an interactional approach to reflective practice in social work  12. Critical factors of intensive family work connected with positive outcomes for child welfare clients  13. Migrant voices addressing social work: listening to Italian women in Germany  14. Culturally sensitive social work: promoting cultural competence  15. Education, ethnicity and gender. Educational biographies of ‘Roma and Sinti’ women in Germany  16. Social assistance trajectories in Switzerland: do they follow discernible patterns?  17. Standardisation—the end of professional discretion?