Karen Healy

Social Work Theories in Context

Creating Frameworks for Practice

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This best-selling text-book explores contemporary social work theories using an integrated and flexible framework to link context, theory, and practice approaches. It will act as a guide to social work theory across a range of organisational contexts, showing social work as a diverse activity that is shaped by professional purpose, public policy, and practice locations. Aimed at undergraduate and postgraduate students on qualifying professional programmes, this edition has been updated with theories that reflect modern contexts such as anti-racial, feminist and post-humanist social work.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• 3 ed
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: August 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 532g
• ISBN-13: 9781350321571
• ISBN-10: 1350321575
• Artikelnr.: 63469118

Autorenporträt

Karen Healy

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures and Tables Preface Acknowledgements Part 1 Introduction 1
Understanding our Context 2 A Dynamic Model of Practice Part 2 Discourses
Shaping Practice Contexts 3 Dominant Discourses in Health and Welfare:
Biomedicine and neoliberalism. 4 Behavioural and Social Science Discourses:
'Psy' and Sociological Ideas in Social Work 5 Alternative Discourses:
Citizen Rights, Religion and Spirituality, and Environmental Social Work
Part 3 Social Work Theories for Practice 6 Four Waves of Systems
Theories: From General Systems Theory to Ecosocial Work. 7 Problem-solving
Approaches: Focusing on Task-centred Practice 8 Relationship-based,
Strengths and Solution-focused Practice 9 Modern Critical Social Work:
Addressing Structural Contexts 10 'Post-Theories': Postmodern,
Poststructural and Postcolonial Approaches. 11 Creating Frameworks for
Practice Bibliography Index