The Haunt of Misery

ISBN-13: 9781032633695 / Twarda / 2023 / 201 str.

Opis

First published in 1989, The Haunt of Misery offers social workers and students critical essays for critical times. Faced with unreflective wealth creation and the fragmentation of the counterculture, social work is perceived as failing to meet the needs of the client.

Spis treści

List of Contributors Editors’ note Introduction 1. Women and men without work 2. Finding the right response 3. ‘Mad, bad and dangerous to know’ 4. Users fight back 5. The sound of silence 6. Social work with black people 7. Mental or experimental? Social workers, clients and psychiatry 8. Social work and self-management Name index Subject index

O autorze

Chris Rojek, Geraldine Peacock, and Stewart Collins