With the increasing focus on 'community' as the site for renewing democracy, improving policymaking and enhancing service delivery, this book provides a challenging approach to understanding community practice. It offers a much-needed theoretical perspective, sets out an analysis of power and empowerment and explores new ways of understanding active citizenship.The book covers a wide range of theoretical and practice topics. First presenting a model of critical community practice, the authors draw upon a variety of case studies from Britain and elsewhere to discuss this in the context of work...
With the increasing focus on 'community' as the site for renewing democracy, improving policymaking and enhancing service delivery, this book provides...
Ethics is an increasingly important theme in social work practice. Worldwide, social workers experience common ethical challenges (how to be fair, whether to break a rule, how to act in politically tense situations) in very different contexts - from disaster relief in China to child protection work in Palestine. This book takes as its starting point real life cases featuring ethical problems in the areas of: negotiating roles and boundaries, respecting rights, being fair, challenging and developing organisations and working with policy and politics. Each case opens with a brief introduction,...
Ethics is an increasingly important theme in social work practice. Worldwide, social workers experience common ethical challenges (how to be fair, whe...
The past few years have seen a renewed interest in social work ethics, and this volume argues that this phenomenon can be seen as reflecting two very different agendas. On the one hand, this interest is part of a progressive movement that critiques market-oriented approaches to managing the public sectoroften called New Public Management (NPM)by emphasizing the role of social workers as agents for social justice. On the other hand, the growth of interest in ethics could be viewed as part of the NPM and its efforts toward controlling the conduct of professionals and service users. The...
The past few years have seen a renewed interest in social work ethics, and this volume argues that this phenomenon can be seen as reflecting two very ...
We follow Jaxon & Skyler from their first Christmas to this Christmas. So much changes over a three-year span. It begins with heartache, but they don't give up. They push through because there is no Jax without Skye, and there is no Skye without Jax.
We follow Jaxon & Skyler from their first Christmas to this Christmas. So much changes over a three-year span. It begins with heartache, but they don'...
