UID:
edocfu_9958327450402883
Format:
1 online resource (249 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-134-79922-5
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1-280-32098-2
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0-203-43351-3
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1-134-79923-3
Series Statement:
The state of welfare
Content:
Analyzes the current changes in social work and assesses how far recent developments in social theory can contribute to their interpretation. Considers issues of central significance to all interested in social work theory, policy, practice
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; Series editor's preface; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Prologue; Social theory, social change and social work: an introduction; Social work through the looking glass; After social work?; Postmodernism, feminism and the question of difference; Surface and depth in social-work practice; Social work, risk and 'the blaming system'; Telling tales: probation in the contemporary social formation; The future of social work with older people in a changing world; Social work with children and families: from child welfare to child protection
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Regulation for radicals: the state, CCETSW and the academyAnti-intellectualism and the peculiarities of British social work education; References; Index;
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-12698-3
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-12697-5
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203433515
