Social Work: A Reader

ISBN-13: 9781032014500 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 296 str.

Cree, Viviene E.

Opis

Building on the successful 1st edition, this reader brings together some of the most significant ideas that have informed social work practice over the last fifty years.

Spis treści

0.Introduction - Reading social work.  Part One - The Profession of Social Work.  Commentary One.  1.Black History Month: a provocation and a timeline.  2.But is it social work?.  3.The politics of social work.  4.Changes in the form of knowledge in social work: from the ‘social’ to the ‘informational’?.  5.The quest for a universal social work: some issues and implications.  6.The (r)evolution and decolonization of social work ethics: The Global Social Work Statement of Ethical Principles.  7.Human rights practice: possibilities and pitfalls for developing emancipatory social work.  8.The impact of scandal and inquiries on social work and the personal social services.  9.Social work in a risk society.  10.Am I my brother’s keeper?.  11.Research from the Underside.  12.What is Professional Social Work?.  13.The Client Speaks.  14.Service users and practitioners reunited: the key component for social work reform.  Part Two – Knowledge and Values for Social Work.  Commentary Two.  15.The sociological imagination.  16.Reassessing attachment theory in child welfare.  17.A critique of the adverse childhood experiences framework in epidemiology and public health: Uses and misuses.  18.Resilience: Some conceptual considerations.  19.A Critical Understanding of Social Work by Paolo Freire (1919).  20.There is an alternative: homines curans and the limits of neoliberalism.  21.The social model of disability.  22.The relevance of Nancy Fraser for transformative social work education.  23.Feminism for the 99%.  24.Intersectionality’s definitional dilemmas.  25.Learning to deliver LGBT+ aged care.  26.Towards practicing social work law.  27.What are values and ethics?.  28.Green social work in theory and practice: a new environmental paradigm for the profession.  Part Three – Practice in Social Work.  Commentary Three.  29.On the nature of practice.  30.‘Radical Social Work’ by Roy Bailey and Mike Brake: A Classic Text Revisited.  31.The critical role of street level bureaucrats.  32.Assessment in the twenty-first century.  33.The significance of African-centered social work for social work practice.  34.Bridging the Past and Present to the Future of Crisis Intervention and Crisis Management.  35.The contemporary context of relationship-based practice.  36.The ecological systems metaphor in Australasia.  37.The strengths perspective in social work practice: extensions and cautions.  38.Personalisation through participation: A new script for public services.  39.Collaboration and partnership in context.  40.A review of Donald A. Schön’s, The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action.  41.Making things new: Distant Voices and Unbound at Vox Liminis with Padraig O’Tuama.