Evidence and knowledge are fundamental in professional practice. A key skill for social workers is understanding how to use the range of sources available. Being able to explain the evidence underpinning decisions and the knowledge base of professional interventions is not just good practice: it's essential in partnership working and in acting accountably.
This innovative book recognizes and builds on the complex nature of social work practice. It challenges the view that there is one best form of knowledge which applies equally to all aspects of practice. Tony Evans and Mark...
Evidence and knowledge are fundamental in professional practice. A key skill for social workers is understanding how to use the range of sources avail...
At 3 years old, my first grand daughter was sophisticated, affable, and articulate - or so she thought. Her vocabulary included words like "Lasterday," "Nexterday," and "Inaminnit" to communicate her concepts of time. Granted, these concepts were born, in part, from her perceptions of her father's procrastinations. "Dad, what doin' Lasterday?" "Cake, inaminnit." "Home Nexterday...kay?" But, I have found these words to be exceptionally versatile in communicating those pleasurable and unbounded memories of times, places, and events - the realities of which no longer fi nd place in our current...
At 3 years old, my first grand daughter was sophisticated, affable, and articulate - or so she thought. Her vocabulary included words like "Lasterday,...
Drawing on Foucault's later work on governmentality, this book traces the effects of 'the rise of risk' on contemporary social work practice. Focusing on two 'domains' of practice - mental health social work and probation work - it analyses the ways in which risk thinking has affected social work's aims and objectives, methods and approaches.
Drawing on Foucault's later work on governmentality, this book traces the effects of 'the rise of risk' on contemporary social work practice. Focusing...
Social work research has gathered a greater transparency and clarity of identity in North American and parts of Europe. Furthermore, the rapid emergence of social work research in other European countries, China, India, Japan and elsewhere in Asia and Pacific Rim countries, and gradually in South America, has created a need for a collection that can contribute to both shaping and making accessible key and sometimes hard-to-access sources. This four-volume collection answers this need, bringing together key literature in a single resource and structuring it into thematic volumes to...
Social work research has gathered a greater transparency and clarity of identity in North American and parts of Europe. Furthermore, the rapid emergen...
