Michael Sheppard

Social Work and Social Exclusion

The Idea of Practice

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Social Work and Social Exclusion offers an original contribution to the understanding of social work and includes a reappraisal of some fundamental aspects of the profession and its practice. It explores a number of key aspects of social work including social work values and knowledge, empowerment, need, authority and choice, judgment and decision making, evidence-based practice and reflective practice, showing how they reflect an underlying concern with social exclusion.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. September 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 154mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 554g
• ISBN-13: 9780754647706
• ISBN-10: 0754647706
• Artikelnr.: 25394635

Autorenporträt

Dr Michael Sheppard is Professor of Social Work at the University of Plymouth, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface
Introduction
Social exclusion and social work
Social work and social exclusion
The nature of social work
Knowledge values, post modernism and social work
Need
Authority and choice
Empowerment
Maintenance, social functioning and coping
Interpretivism, reflection and social work as art
Social work, science and technical instrumentalism
Judgement and decision making: practical reasoning, process knowledge and critical thinking
Social work intervention and human nature
Conclusion: the discipline of social work
Bibliography
Indexes.