eBook - ePub
The Haunt of Misery
Critical essays in social work and helping
- 201 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
The Haunt of Misery
Critical essays in social work and helping
About this book
First published in 1989, The Haunt of Misery offers social workers and students critical essays for critical times. Faced with unreflective wealth creation and the fragmentation of the counterculture, social work is perceived as failing to meet the needs of the client. Many social workers are left feeling angry, stranded and confused. Written by academics and professionals, the essays range over social work and unemployment, the crisis of AIDS and HIV infection, drug use, client collectives, the elderly, the ethnic minorities, professionalism, and self-management. The authors offer constructive criticism of existing social work practice and suggest radical and exciting issues for the profession in the 1990s and beyond.
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Yes, you can access The Haunt of Misery by Chris Rojek,Geraldine Peacock,Stewart Collins in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Social Work. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Original Title Page
- Original Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Editors’ note
- Introduction: ‘The immense haunt of misery’
- 1 Women and men without work: The political economy is personal
- 2 Finding the right response: Social work, AIDS, and HIV infection
- 3 ‘Mad, bad, and dangerous to know’: Social work with drug users
- 4 Users fight back: Collectives in social work
- 5 The sound of silence: Who cares about the quality of social work with older people?
- 6 Social work with black people: What's the difference?
- 7 Mental or experimental? Social workers, clients, and psychiatry
- 8 Social work and self-management
- Name Index
- Subject Index