| Description |
xxiii, 188 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm |
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Reshaping social work |
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Reshaping social work.
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| Contents |
Contents note continued: 3.Finding Space for Radical Practice -- Overview -- The origins and conclusions of radical pessimism -- The Marxist dialectic and the welfare state -- Lipsky and discretion in the public sector -- Applying Lipsky's ideas to twenty-first-century social work -- Space in risk assessment -- Knowledge, research and evidence-based practice -- Influence on policy-making -- 4.Working with Children and Families -- Overview -- Child development, poverty, class and social justice -- Positive approaches to child protection and safeguarding -- Gender and child and family social work -- Alcohol and drugs -- Refugees and asylum-seekers: social justice, population movement and children -- Alternative directions for working with children: social pedagogy -- 5.Working with Adults -- Overview -- From community care and care management to personalization -- Possibilities within personalization -- Older people -- Learning difficulties -- Mental health -- Carers -- |
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Contents note continued: 6.Community Social Work in the ̀Big Society' -- Overview -- Defining community -- Community social work -- Neoliberalism and community: the ̀Big Society' -- Radical opportunities within a community orientation -- 7.Radical Social Work with Individuals and Groups -- Overview -- Relationships -- Working with individuals at the therapeutic level and the use of narrative approaches -- Interpersonal approaches -- Working ̀upstream' -- Groupwork -- 8.Prospects for Radical Practice: Survival in the Front Line -- Overview -- Stress and burnout -- Supervision and support -- Working within state organizations -- Conclusions and prospects for radical practice |
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Machine generated contents note: 1.The Context of Social Work -- Overview -- The state and its functions -- The emergence, rise and decline of the welfare state -- Social work in the welfare state -- Neoliberalism and attempts to dismantle the welfare state -- The consequences of neoliberalism -- Neoliberalism's effects on social work -- The 2011 riots: myth and reality -- Alternative strategies -- 2.Radical Theory -- Overview -- A word about theory -- Social justice and oppression -- The difference between Critical practice and Radical practice -- The radical social work movement of the 1970s -- Radical non-intervention theory -- Anti-racist practice -- Feminist practice in social work -- Anti-discriminatory practice -- Anti-oppressive practice -- Empowerment and advocacy -- Human rights-based, practice -- Small-scale resistance: deviant social work and anarchist influences -- Twenty-first-century radical social work -- Putting the ̀doing' into radical practice -- |
| Summary |
This book provides social workers with an applicable model for radical practice. Through examining the current state of social work in the UK and looking at the radical approaches that have developed over the years, this book explores some of the opportunities that exist for a radical social work |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Social case work -- Great Britain.
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Social case work.
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Social service -- Great Britain.
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Social service.
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| Author |
Adams, R., editor
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Dominelli, Lena, editor
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Payne, Malcolm, 1947- editor
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| ISBN |
9781137308535 (paperback) |
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