
- 232 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
What is Professional Social Work? is a now classic analysis of social work as a discourse between three aspects of practice: social order, therapeutic and transformational perspectives. It enables social workers to analyse and value the role of social work in present-day multiprofessional social care. This completely re-written second edition explores social work's struggle to meet its claim to achieve social progress through interpersonal practice. Important features of this new edition include: §practical ways of analysing personal professional identity §understanding how social workers embody their profession in their practice with other professionals §detailed analysis of current and historical documents defining social work and social care analysis of values, agencies and global social work. This new edition will stimulate social workers, students and policy-makers in social care to think again about the valuable role social work plays in society.
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Table of contents
- What is professional social work?
- Contents
- List of tables and figures
- Preface and acknowledgements
- Notes on the author
- 1. Introduction: the social work discourse
- 2. The identity of social work
- 3. Social work as a practice
- 4. Social work values: social justice and social care
- 5. Social work, management and the agency
- 6. Social work, power and society
- 7. Social work: profession among professions
- 8. Social works: global and local
- 9. Social work: (inter)personal, political and professional
- References
- Index