{"product_id":"social-work-theory-and-practice-for-a-changing-profession-9780745623825","title":"Social Work  Theory and Practice for a Changing","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSocial Work explores the dilemmas and tensions that practitioners are compelled to resolve in their daily work. Drawing on a broad range of theories, Social Work outlines the knowledge, skills and values that enable practitioners to respond more effectively to the demands made of them in fluid and constantly changing contexts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Dominelli's excellent book examines the neo-liberal political traditions that have resulted in social work becoming such a 'troubled and troubling profession'.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eHealth Service Journal\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This is an ambitious and challenging book. It recognizes that contemporary social work is in some difficulty in the face of the ascendancy of neo-liberalism. Social work has been deeply affected by such reactionary pressures both locally and internationally. Dominelli does not shrink away from these challenges and in \u003ci\u003eSocial Work\u003c\/i\u003e provides critical information and analysis which will help all those working for a resurgent social work practice committed to social justice and human rights.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChris Jones,\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eUniversity of Liverpool\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Dominelli applies a critical and creative perspective to social work in our current global environment. She challenges our conventional assumptions regarding the role and practice of social work and social workers to propose ways in which we can rethink our purpose. This book makes a major contribution to social work theory and practice.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLorraine Gutierrez, \u003ci\u003eUniversity of Michigan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments. \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1. Introduction.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRethinking Social Work: Interrogating Practice in and Uncertain and Difficult Clime.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Philanthropic Gaze: Privileging Residual Welfare Provisions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContinuities and Discontinuities in Practice.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUnity and Fragmentation in Social Work.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStructure of the Book.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2. Social Work: A Profession in Changing Contexts.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMacro-Level Contexts.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Impact of Globalizing Forces on Welfare Provisions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eQuality Assurance.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Internationalization of Social Problems.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMeso-Level Contexts.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNational Policy Frameworks: Social Inclusion and Exclusion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMicro-level Contexts.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePower and Authority.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Technology of Governmentality: The ‘Social’ Divides Clients into ‘Deserving’ and ‘Undeserving’ Groups and Rations Resources.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDefining Moments in Professional Social Work: Shifting Contexts for Practice.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA New Profession Makes its Claims: The Early Beginnings of Social Work.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProfessional Consolidation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Brief Period of Consensus Around the Welfare State.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Consensus Unravels.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA New Consensus Forms Around the Precepts of Neo-Liberal Market Ideologies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlobalization Reframes the Social Work Agenda.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusions,.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3. Values, Ethics and Empowerment.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePractising Social Work Values: Reconfiguring Continuities and Discontinuities.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStability and Change in Values.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTrust.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Commitment to Social Justice: A Contested Value.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReconfiguring the Ethic of Care.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRethinking the Life-course within Identity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIdentity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProcesses of Intervention.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Dance of Competing Values in the Major Approaches to Social Work.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCasework: Individualizing Social Problems.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGroupwork: The Acknowledgment of Systems.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCommunity Work: A Concern with Structural Inequalities.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCompetence-Based Social Work: Fragmenting and Technocratising Social Problems.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eValuing Social Justice and Social Change: A human Rights Context for Practice.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTraining is No Longer the Preserve of the Academy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChanging Agendas.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 Social Work intervention with Children and Families.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFamilialist Discourses\/Understanding Diverse Conceptualisations of ‘the Family’.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAdultist Paradigms in Child Welfare.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePower, Control and Governmentality.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConstructing Childhood Through Practice.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePolicing Deviant Families: Children on the ‘at Risk Register’.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRisk Assessment and Management in Child Welfare Work.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFailing Children.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRevitalising Communities: Approaching Child Welfare as a Collective Responsibility.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAssimilation as Exclusionary Practice.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 Social Work Intervention with Older People.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMobilizing to Challenge Negative Images of Older People.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConstructing the Older Person in Social Work Practice.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCommunity Care.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCommodifying Social Work with Older People.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eElder Abuse.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInsecurity and Loss in Older People’s Lives.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eYoung Careers Providing Services for Older People.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eServices for Older People.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6 Social Work with Offenders.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(Re)configuring Environments of Crime and Control.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDifferentiated Responses to Offenders.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWomen Offenders.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eClass-based Offenders.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRacialized Discourse on Crime: Black Offenders.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eYoung Offenders.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChildren’s Offending Behaviour Brings Poor Parenting Under Fire.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAuthoritarian Populism Targets Parents.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRisk Assessment and Risk Management.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eManaging Crime Statistics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eManaging Offending Behaviour.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWorking with offending Behaviour.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWorking With Offenders: Changing Roles and Directions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProbation: The Link with Social Work.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBreaking the Link with Social Work.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMarket Incentives.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePrivatizing Parts of the Criminal Justice System.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom a Social Work Activity to a Corrections-based One.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Rise of Victims’ Rights.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCitizenship and Offenders’ Rights to Rehabilitation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7 Social Work Interventions in Communities.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(Re)Defining Communities.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePost-war Community Work in Britain.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReconfiguring Community Work in Britan.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExclusionary Community Relations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eControl or Liberation?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCommunities in Social Work.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVulnerability: a Factor in Oppressing Diverse Communities.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8 New Directions for Social Work: Interdependence, Reciprocity, Citizenship\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eand Social Justice.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSocial Justice and Citizenship.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDifferent Visions for Social Work.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInterdependence and Solidarity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReciprocity and Entitlements.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eModelling New Directions for Social Work.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEducation and Training.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e9 Conclusions: Social Work: A Force for Change at Individual and Structural Levels.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePractice is thinking and doing.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlossary.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404354724183,"sku":"9780745623825","price":54.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/social-work-theory-and-practice-for-a-changing-profession-9780745623825","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}