Radical Social Work Today

Radical Social Work Today
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Publisher : Policy Press
Total Pages : 250
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ISBN-10 : 9781847428172
ISBN-13 : 1847428177
Rating : 4/5 (72 Downloads)

Synopsis Radical Social Work Today by : Michael Lavalette

To celebrate the 35th anniversary of the seminal text Radical Social Work (1975), this volume has been compiled to explore the radical tradition within social work and assess its legacy, relevance and prospects. It is essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduates studying social work, as well as social work academics and researchers.

Radical Social Work

Radical Social Work
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Publisher : Hodder Education
Total Pages : 184
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ISBN-10 : PSU:000000357746
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Rating : 4/5 (46 Downloads)

Synopsis Radical Social Work by : Roy Bailey

Radical Social Work in Practice

Radical Social Work in Practice
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Publisher : Policy Press
Total Pages : 204
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ISBN-10 : 1861349912
ISBN-13 : 9781861349910
Rating : 4/5 (12 Downloads)

Synopsis Radical Social Work in Practice by : Ferguson, Iain

This much-needed textbook provides a fresh understanding of the radical tradition and shows how it can be developed in contemporary social work.

Radical Challenges for Social Work Education

Radical Challenges for Social Work Education
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 164
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ISBN-10 : 9781000573558
ISBN-13 : 1000573559
Rating : 4/5 (58 Downloads)

Synopsis Radical Challenges for Social Work Education by : Jane Fenton

This book is full of ideas about how social work education can confront the individualising and often blaming form of social work that neoliberalism ushered in four decades ago. Radical social work is an approach to social work that has, at its heart, the departure from solely behavioural, moral or psychological understanding of service users’ problems. Social work had originally been concerned with the moral character of people in trouble (usually poor people), making a clear division between those who were ‘deserving’ of help and those who were ‘undeserving’. The rise of science and the ‘psy’ disciplines then led to psychological explanations for the difficulties people found themselves in. Both explanations for social problems – moral and psychological – with their narrow focus on the individual have been enjoying a renaissance in recent times with the neoliberal self-sufficiency narrative (moral) and the more recent focus on trauma (psychological). Radical social work challenges those explanations, concerned as it is with the circumstances a person might find themselves in – poverty, poor housing, poor education, high crime rates, and lack of opportunities of all kinds. This book is a step towards resurrecting radical social work principles, and it urges us to think about how social work education can be reshaped to that end. Radical Challenges for Social Work Education is a significant new contribution to social work practice and theory, and will be a great resource for academics, researchers, and advanced students of Politics, Education, Social Work, Sociology, Public Policy, Development Studies, Anthropology, and Human Geography. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal Social Work Education.

The Road Not Taken

The Road Not Taken
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Publisher : Psychology Press
Total Pages : 300
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ISBN-10 : 0415933994
ISBN-13 : 9780415933995
Rating : 4/5 (94 Downloads)

Synopsis The Road Not Taken by : Michael Reisch

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Social Work

Social Work
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 226
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ISBN-10 : 9780415603997
ISBN-13 : 0415603994
Rating : 4/5 (97 Downloads)

Synopsis Social Work by : Mark Doel

This book presents a broad view of contemporary social work, exploring its roots and its possible future. It dispels myths surrounding social work, addresses media debates, and offers a balanced account of what social workers do. The book argues for a social work that is partisan in support of social justice.

Radical Hope

Radical Hope
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Publisher : Policy Press
Total Pages : 274
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ISBN-10 : 9781447354932
ISBN-13 : 1447354931
Rating : 4/5 (32 Downloads)

Synopsis Radical Hope by : Krumer-Nevo, Michal

In this seminal book, Krumer-Nevo introduces the Poverty-Aware Paradigm: a radical new framework for social workers and professionals working with and for people in poverty. The author defines the core components of the Poverty-Aware Paradigm, explicates its embeddedness in key theories in poverty, critical social work and psychoanalysis, and links it to diverse facets of social work practice. Providing a revolutionary new way to think about how social work can address poverty, she draws on the extensive application of the paradigm by social workers in Israel and across diverse poverty contexts to provide evidence for the practical advantages of integrating the Poverty-Aware Paradigm into social work practices across the globe.

Social Change and Social Work

Social Change and Social Work
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 222
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ISBN-10 : 9781317054078
ISBN-13 : 1317054075
Rating : 4/5 (78 Downloads)

Synopsis Social Change and Social Work by : Timo Harrikari

Social Change and Social Work discusses and examines how social work is challenged by social, political and economic tendencies going on in current societies. The authors ask how social work as a discipline and practice is encountering global and local transformations. Divided into three parts, topics covered include the changing social work mandate throughout history; social work paradigms and theoretical considerations; phenomenological social work; practice research; and gender and generational research. Taken together, the chapters in this anthology provide an authoritative and up-to-date overview of current discussions within the European social work research community.

Global Social Work in a Political Context

Global Social Work in a Political Context
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Publisher : Policy Press
Total Pages : 216
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ISBN-10 : 9781447322696
ISBN-13 : 144732269X
Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

Synopsis Global Social Work in a Political Context by : Ferguson, Iain

How is social work shaped by global issues and international problems and how should it address them? This book employs a radical perspective to examine international social work. Globalisation had opened up many issues for social work, including how to address global inequalities, the impact of global economic problems and trends towards neoliberalism. By examining the origins of modern social work, problematising its definition and addressing the care/control dichotomy the book reveals what we can learn from different approaches and projects across the globe. Case studies from the UK, the US, Canada, Spain, Latin America, Australia, Hungary and Greece bring the text to life and allow both students and practitioners to apply theory to practice.

Radical Help

Radical Help
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Publisher : Hachette UK
Total Pages : 200
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ISBN-10 : 9780349009087
ISBN-13 : 0349009082
Rating : 4/5 (87 Downloads)

Synopsis Radical Help by : Hilary Cottam

How should we live: how should we care for one another; grow our capabilities to work, to learn, to love and fully realise our potential? This exciting and ambitious book shows how we can re-design the welfare state for this century. The welfare state was revolutionary: it lifted thousands out of poverty, provided decent homes, good education and security. But it is out of kilter now: an elaborate and expensive system of managing needs and risks. Today we face new challenges. Our resources have changed. Hilary Cottam takes us through five 'Experiments' to show us a new design. We start on a Swindon housing estate where families who have spent years revolving within our current welfare systems are supported to design their own way out. We spend time with young people who are helped to make new connections - with radical results. We turn to the question of good health care and then to the world of work and see what happens when people are given different tools to make change. Then we see those over sixty design a new and affordable system of support. At the heart of this way of working is human connection. Upending the current crisis of managing scarcity, we see instead that our capacities for the relationships that can make the changes are abundant. We must work with individuals, families and communities to grow the core capabilities we all need to flourish. Radical Help describes the principles behind the approach, the design process that makes the work possible and the challenges of transition. It is bold - and above all, practical. It is not a book of dreams. It is about concrete new ways of organising that already have been developing across Britain. Radical Help creates a new vision and a radically different approach that can take care of us once more, from cradle to grave.