This book traces the origins and development of social work as we now know it. Providing an ambitious synthesis of historical and international material, it explores the different faces of social work, whether defined by social policy developments, professionalization, changes in client group, or shifts in practice orientation. This is a unique book undertaken by an author with a strong international reputation and, as such, it promises to be a landmark for years to come in the social work literature.
This book traces the origins and development of social work as we now know it. Providing an ambitious synthesis of historical and international materi...
Globalization challenges social work with constant social change, making a social worker's job and the task of social work education more complex and uncertain. Post-modern thinking suggests that social workers must learn to cope with complexity in ways that are in tension with the increasingly managerialist organization of the social services. The authors explore and question the concepts of 'postmodern', 'international' and 'global' in light of growing interest in international social work in the early 21st century. Emphasizing the importance of critical reflection, they argue that...
Globalization challenges social work with constant social change, making a social worker's job and the task of social work education more complex and ...
Jozefa Bragiel Iwona Dabrowska-Jablonska Malcolm Payne
In a wide-ranging series of papers, researchers from Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic and from the UK, Denmark and Germany offer perspectives on social work interventions in adult services in the European Union. Topics include: adult care policies in Europe and the UK, including personalisation, end-of-life care, care homes for older people, drug abuse, Roma people, care leavers and foster care recruitment and management, people with disabilities, homelessness and unemployment, multi-problem families and universities of the Third Age. The papers draw on research and practice in a wide...
In a wide-ranging series of papers, researchers from Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic and from the UK, Denmark and Germany offer perspectives o...
Older people are, like younger people, citizens in the communities of the nations in which they live. This book sees ageing as a life journey that incorporates a process of citizening, in which people build their identity as part of their family and community. But the social experience of illness, frailty, disability and reaching the end of life may de-citizen older people be devaluing the social identity that comes from continuing social engagement. We de-citizen older people by emphasising dependence on services and their cost to public expenditure instead of valuing the interdependence...
Older people are, like younger people, citizens in the communities of the nations in which they live. This book sees ageing as a life journey that ...
In this important text, Malcolm Payne shows how team members in care services can use networking and team- building to strengthen their practice by working with wider networks of agencies, professionals, and service users. He brings traditional team development up to date, including perspectives from research, management ideas, and professional writings. Each chapter contains a concise account of new ideas in teamwork, practical guidance on teambuilding, and teambuilding activities. Team development activities are discussed in the appendix.
In this important text, Malcolm Payne shows how team members in care services can use networking and team- building to strengthen their practice by wo...
In this exciting new book, Malcolm Payne draws on core principles of social work to articulate a new humanistic practice for the twenty-first century. Humanistic Social Work: Core Principles in Practice presents a profession that aims at positive fulfillment in social relationships, exploring and reconciling artistic, creative, and spiritual avenues with evidence-based practice approaches and postmodernist understandings of human growth and knowledge development. Showing how practitioners can embody flexible, skilled, and knowledge-based responses to the complexities of human...
In this exciting new book, Malcolm Payne draws on core principles of social work to articulate a new humanistic practice for the twenty-first century....
This succinct yet comprehensive book written by Margaret Reith and Malcolm Payne combines the authors' more than 70 years of social work experience to provide a definitive introduction to social work practice in end-of-life and palliative care. Reith and Payne trace the development of palliative care and the important role of social work within it. The book's unique sociological focus on required practitioner knowledge of death, dying, and bereavement helps balance out the prevalent psychological focus of other books in the field. Chapters in the book focus on practice skills and...
This succinct yet comprehensive book written by Margaret Reith and Malcolm Payne combines the authors' more than 70 years of social work experience to...
