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Online-Ressource (177 p)
ISBN:
9780761962724
Inhalt:
This original and stimulating book provides a critical review of contemporary social work theory and considers its relevance for professional practice. Karen Healy outlines critical theoretical perspectives - including feminist, marxist and radical social work - and indicates their implications for social work practice. She goes on to explain contemporary debates on post-structuralism and postmodernism and shows how their application to everyday social work practice would point to a new pragmatism focused on local, contextual and incremental proposals for change. By referring to actual example
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 - Social Work: Contemporary Challenges; Chapter 2 - The Legacy of Our Past and the Nature of Our Present; Chapter 3 - Foucault, Feminism and the Politics of Emancipation; Chapter 4 - Critical Social Work Responses to 'Post' Theories; Chapter 5 - Rethinking Professional Power and Identity; Chapter 6 - Liberation or Regulation: Interrogating the Practices of Change; Chapter 7 - Reconstructing Critical Practices; Chapter 8 - Conclusions; Appendix: Conversation Transcription Conventions; References; Index;
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ISBN 9781446265673
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ISBN 9780761962724
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Social Work Practices : Contemporary Perspectives on Change
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books
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