Social Work Theories in Context : Creating Frameworks for Practice
by Healy, KarenFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2005-06-04
Publisher(s): Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary
This innovative textbook provides a comprehensive guide to social work practice across a range of organizational contexts, presenting social work as a diverse activity that is profoundly shaped by public policies, service missions, and practice locations. A chief strength of the text is its integrated and flexible framework for practice which links context, theory, and practice approaches. It tackles the most current and topical theories and perspectives in a clear and systematic way.
Author Biography
Karen Healy is Senior Lecturer in Social Work and Policy Studies at The University of Sydney, Australia.
Table of Contents
Dedication * Acknowledgements * Preface * Practising Social Work: Why Context Matters * Dominant Discourses in Health and Welfare: Biomedicine, Economics, and Law * Service Discourses: 'Psy' and Sociological Ideas in Social Work * Alternative Service Discourses: Consumer Rights, and Religion and Spirituality * Theories of Professional Practice: Approaches to Knowledge Development and Use * Problem-Solving Approaches: Focusing Task-Centred Work * Three Waves of Systems Theory * The Strengths Perspective * Modern Critical Social Work: From Radical to Anti-Oppressive Practice * Postmodern Approaches to Practice * Creating Frameworks for Practice * Bibliography * Figures *
Dedication * Acknowledgements * Practising Social Work: Why Context Matters * Dominant Discourses: Biomedicine, Economics, and Law * Contestant Discourses: Social Science, Consumer Rights, Religion and Spirituality * Theories of Professional Practice: In Context * Problem-Solving Practice: Focusing Task-Centred Work * Three Waves of Systems Theory * The Strengths Perspective in Social Work * Modern Critical Social Work: From Radical to Anti-Oppressive Practice * Postmodern Approaches to Practice * Creating Context and Theory in Practice * Bibliography * Figures
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