Transforming Social Work Practice: Postmodern Critical Perspectives

by Fook,Jan; Fook,Jan

• ISBN13: 9780415216470
• ISBN10: 0415216478
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781136849404
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1999-06-28
• Publisher: Routledge
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Summary

Transforming Social Work Practiceshows that postmodern theory offers new strategies for social workers concerned with political action and social justice. It explores ways of developing practice frameworks, paradigms and principles which take advantage of the perspectives offered by postmodern theory without entirely abandoning the values of modernity and the Enlightenment project of human emancipation. Case studies demonstrate how these perspectives can be applied to practice.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Postmodern Critical Theory and Emancipatory Social Work Practice

Social Work and Its Search for Meaning: Theories, Narratives and Practices

The Contemporary Organization of Social Work

Social Work Ethics: Embracing Diversity?

Challenging Victimisation in Practice with Young Women

Offending Mothers: Theorising in a Feminist Minefield

Deconstructing Masculinity: Constructing Emancipatory Practice with Men

Representing Acitivist Practice

Community Development and a Postmodernism of Resistance

Empowerment: The Modern Social Work Concept 'Par Excellence'

Postmodernism and the Teaching and Practice of Interpersonal Skills

Competing Paradigms in Mental Health Education and Practice

Critical Reflectivity in Education and Practice

Postmodernism, Critical Theory and Social Work

Emancipatory Social Work for a Postmodern Age

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