Insightful and engaging, 'Welfare Words' provides a critical analysis of social work and social policy in its articulation and discussion of a number of significant words and phrases. Paul Michael Garrett makes sense of complex theories which codify everyday experience, giving students and practitioners vital tools to better understand and change their social worlds.

Insightful and engaging, 'Welfare Words' provides a critical analysis of social work and social policy in its articulation and discussion of a number of significant words and phrases. Paul Michael Garrett makes sense of complex theories which codify everyday experience, giving students and practitioners vital tools to better understand and change their social worlds.

This book imaginatively explores ways in which practitioners and social work educators might develop more critical and radical ways of theorising and working. It is an invaluable resource for students and contains features such as Reflection Boxes and Talk Boxes to encourage classroom and workplace discussions.