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9781403935458

Challenging Social Work The Institutional Context of Practice

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  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2006-08-08
  • Publisher: Red Globe Pr
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Summary

This book explores the challenges facing social work, prepares readers for the realities of practice, and engages the reader in a comprehensive, theoretically informed yet accessible analysis of why social work needs to reconstitute itself.

Author Biography

Catherine McDonald is Director, Bachelor of Social Work at The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements * PART ONE * Preface to Part One * The Professional Project in the Context of Change * Modernity, Social Work and the Welfare State * Challenging Social Work: The Economics of Change * Challenging Social Work: The Politics of Change * Challenging Social Work: The Ideas of Change * Reconstructing Practitioners * Reconstructing Service Users * PART TWO * Preface to Part Two * Entrepreneurial Social Work * Evidence-Vased Practice * Critical Practice * Global Social Work * Thinking Our Way Forward * Bibliography

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