International Social Work

by Mel Gray

• ISBN13: 9781847875631
• ISBN10: 1847875637
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-01-28
• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd

Summary

This four-volume set covers a broad scope and range of international social work knowledge and research and contains seminal and landmark publications in social work with a particular emphasis on contemporary key publications to compliment earlier classic works. The readings combine empirical with conceptual articles that not only cover significant knowledge and key debates in the field but also show how international social work has developed through research.

Table of Contents

Welfare Theory and Approaches

Perspectives on the Development of Welfare

Citizenship and Social Class

The Three Political Economies of the Welfare State

The New Politics of the Welfare State

Welfarism, Governance and the State

Some Contradictions of the Modern Welfare State

Society, the State, Social Problems and Social Policy

Relief, Labour and Civil Disorder: An overview

The Changing Governance of Welfare: Recent trends in its primary functions, scale, and modes of coordination

Welfare Professionals and Street Level Bureaucrats

Professional Work

Am I my Brother's Keeper?

The Professional is Political

Street-level Bureaucrats as Policy Makers

Gender, Care and the Subject of Welfare

Women and Social Welfare

Gender and the Development of Welfare Regimes

The Concept of Social Care and the Analysis of Contemporary Welfare States

Good-enough Principles for Welfare

Democratic Subjects

Welfare and Social Development

Growth, Redistribution, and Welfare: Toward social investment

The Place of Social Capital in Understanding Social and Economic Outcomes

Social Work Practice

Practice Perspectives

Is Social Work a Profession?

The Problem-Solving Work

Is Casework Effective? A review

Conceptions of Social Work

The Life Model of Social Work Practice: An overview

Behavioral Social Work: Past, present, and future

The Strengths Perspective in Social Work Practice: Extensions and cautions

Knowledge for Practice

Knowledge for Social Work

Boundaries of Social Work or Social Work of Boundaries

Notes on the Form of Knowledge in Social Work

Many Ways of Knowing

The Knowledge Base of Social Work Practice: Theory, wisdom, analogue, or art

The Ethical Implications of Current Theoretical Developments in Social Work

The Theory and Practice relationship

Some Thoughts on the Relationship between Theory and Practice in and for Social Work

Surface and Depth in Social Work Practice

Practice Assessment

Reflections on the Assessment of Outcomes in Child Care

Common Errors of Reasoning in Child Protection Work

Practicing Empowerment

Rethinking Empowerment

Empowerment and Oppression: An indissoluble pairing for contemporary social work

Empowering Practice: Understanding and managing user-worker processes

Social Work Research

Mapping the Social Work Research Agenda

Cutting Edge Issues in Social Work Research

Confirmational Response Bias among Social Work Journals

A Code of Ethics for Social Work and Social Care Research

Research Note: Research and empowerment

Qualitative Social Work Research

The Social Work Context for Qualitative Research

Does the Glove Really Fit? Qualitative research and clinical social work practice

Theorizing from Practice: Towards an inclusive approach for social work research

Issues of Visibility and Colleague Relationships

Researching Reflective Practice

Schon Shock: A case for refraining reflection-in-action?

There's No Such Thing as Reflection

Evidence-based Social Work

Developing Empirically Based Models of Practice

Evidence-Based Social Care: Wheels off the runway?

Some Considerations on the Validity of Evidence-based Practice in Social Work

The Validity of Evidence-Based Practice in Social Work: A reply to Stephen Webb

Evidence-Based Practice: Counterarguments and objections

Evidence-Based Practice and Social Work

Critical Perspectives

The Relationship between Qualitative and Quantitative Research: Paradigm loyalty versus methodological eclecticism

Science, Research, and Social Work: Who controls the profession

The Quest for Evidence-Based Practice? We are all positivists!

Evaluation with One Eye Closed: The empiricist agenda in social work research

The Limits of Positivism in Social Work Research

Beyond Retroduction?-Hermeneutics, reflexivity and social work practice

Future Challenges

The Future(s) of Social Work

The Social Work Revolution

Social Work Practice in the 21st Century

The Movement of Social Work to Private Practice (and Away From the Poor)

Social Work in the University

Social Work at the Crossroads

The Future of Social Work as a Profession

Social Work, Modernity and Postmodernity

Social Work, Modernity and Post Modernity

Modernity, Postmodernity and Social Work

Deprofessionalizing Social Work: Anti-oppressive practice, competencies and postmodernism

Problematics of Government, (Post) Modernity and Social Work

Parton, Howe and Postmodernity: A critical comment on mistaken identity

New Policies and Technologies

Mapping Child-Care Social Work in the Final Years of the Twentieth Century: A critical response to the 'looking after children' system'

Tough Love: Social work, social exclusion and the third way

The Impact of Audit on Social Work Practice

Clinical Practice Guidelines: Should social work develop them?

Interprofessionality in Health and Social Care: The Achilles' heel of partnership?

Service Users, Social Policy and the Future of Welfare

International Social Work

Professionalization in Social Work: The challenge of diversity

Issues in International Social Work: Resolving critical debates in the profession

Local Orders and Global Chaos in Social Work

Defining Social Work for the 21st Century

Dilemmas of International Social Work: Paradoxical processes in indigenization, universalism and imperialism

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