The Routledge Handbook of Critical Social Work
eBook - ePub

The Routledge Handbook of Critical Social Work

  1. 610 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Routledge Handbook of Critical Social Work

About this book

The Routledge Handbook of Critical Social Work brings together the world's leading scholars in the field to provide a cutting-edge overview of classic and current research and future trends in the subject.

Comprised of 48 chapters divided into six parts:



  • Historical, social, and political influences


  • Mapping the theoretical and conceptual terrain


  • Methods of engagement and modes of analysis


  • Critical contexts for practice and policy


  • Professional education and socialisation


  • Future challenges, directions, and transformations

it provides an authoritative guide to theory and method, and the primary debates of today in social work from a critical perspective.

This handbook is a major reference work and the first book to comprehensively map the wide-ranging territory of critical social work. It does so by addressing its conceptual developments, its methodological advances, its value-based front-line practice and as an influence on the policy field. By offering a definitive survey of current academic knowledge as it relates to professional practice, it provides the first comprehensive, up-to-date, definitive work of reference while at the same time identifying emerging, innovative and cutting-edge areas.

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Yes, you can access The Routledge Handbook of Critical Social Work by Stephen Webb, Stephen Webb,Stephen A. Webb, Stephen A. Webb in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Social Classes & Economic Disparity. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Table of Contents
  7. List of Contributors
  8. Foreword: Critical Social Work and Social Justice
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. Introduction: Critical Social Work and the Politics of Transformation
  11. Part I Historical, Social and Political Influences
  12. Part II Mapping the Theoretical and Conceptual Terrain
  13. Part III Methods of Engagement and Modes of Analysis
  14. Part IV Critical Contexts for Practice and Policy
  15. Part V Professional Education and Socialisation
  16. Part VI Future Challenges, Directions and Transformations
  17. Index