Applying Theory to Policy and Practice

Issues for Critical Reflection
Herausgeber: Smith, Steven R.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The analysis of social and public policy and professional practice has become increasingly theoretical in recent years. This volume draws together experienced practitioners and academics in social work, probation and counselling, as well as from other forms of legal and social practice, to better understand the relationship between theory, policy and practice.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 435g
• ISBN-13: 9780754645993
• ISBN-10: 0754645991
• Artikelnr.: 43893950

Autorenporträt

Steven Smith is Reader in Social Policy and Political Philosophy at the University of Wales, Newport, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors
1 Applying Theory to Policy and Practice: Methodological Problems and Issues
2 The Lure of 'Facts' in Asylum Appeals: Critiquing the Practice of Judges
3 From Eclecticism to Orthodoxy in Practice: Can Theory and Practice Merge in Probation?
4 Scepticism and Belief: Unravelling the Relationship between Theory and Practice in Counselling and Psychotherapy
5 Applying Theories in Care Management to Practice
6 Theory
Practice and 'Teaching' Professional Ethics
7 Bradford's Programme for a Peaceful City: An Experiment in Social Theory and Political Practice
8 Eurocentricism
the Philosophy of Liberation and the Social Model of Disability: The Practice of a Social Movement within a Latin American Context
9 Beyond Practice and Beyond Theory?
Index