The impetus for this book is the shift in welfare policy in Western Europe from state responsibilities to individual and community responsibilities. The book examines the ways in which policies associated with advanced liberalism and New Public Management can be identified as influencing professional practices to promote personalisation, participation, empowerment, recovery and resilience. In examining the concept of `responsibilisation' from the point of view of both the `responsibilised client and welfare worker', the book breaks from the traditional literature to demonstrate how...