Description
Book SynopsisThis book explores how intersectionality theory can be applied to social work practice with children and families, older people and mental health service users, and used to engage with diversity and difference in social work education and research.
With case-study examples and practice questions throughout, the book provides a model for integrating intersectionality theory into social work practice. It highlights the ways intersectional theory helps us to understand the complexities of working with the interlocking nature of problematised elements such as gender, race, class, sexuality, disability, and other axes of structural inequalities experienced by groups in subjugated social locations. Intersectionality is used to examine multiple forms of inequalities and the complexities and questions they give rise to in social work practice. The emphasis throughout is that intersectional approaches can open up social work practice to new understandings of the complex linkage
Table of Contents
1. Introduction. 2. Intersectionality Theory. 3. Employing Intersectionality in Children and Families Social Work. 4. Intersectionality in Mental Health Social Work. 5. Intersectionality and Social Work with Older People. 6. Intersectionality as Pedagogical Practice in Social Work Education. 7. Intersectional Approaches and Social Work Research. 8. Concluding Thoughts
