
- 248 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Now 20 years since its first publication, Jan Fook returns to update her seminal text. Celebrating the ageless ideals of the profession, this book throws a life belt to all social work students and professionals looking to engage with the critical tradition of social work to improve their understanding and practice. Part One: Critical Potential and Current Challenges sets the historical and current contexts for critical social work, introducing you to what critical social work is and what it means for practice. Part Two: Rethinking Ideas unpicks the major concepts associated with critical social work, including knowledge, power, discourse, identity, and difference, and how these need to be rethought in new contexts. Part Three: Redeveloping Practice s illustrates how these new ideas can inform new practices, proving you with all the tools you need to deliver flexible, responsible and responsive social work practice.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Publisher Note
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- About the Author
- Preface
- Part 1 Critical Potential and Current Challenges
- 1 The critical tradition of social work
- 2 Current contexts of practice Challenges and possibilities
- Part 2 Rethinking ideas
- 3 New ways of knowing
- 4 Power
- 5 Discourse, language and narrative
- 6 Identity and difference
- Part 3 Redeveloping practices
- 7 Critical deconstruction and reconstruction
- 8 Empowerment
- 9 Problem conceptualisation and assessment
- 10 Narrative strategies
- 11 Contextual practice Strategies for working in and with contexts
- 12 Ongoing learning
- References
- Index