Catherine Mcdonald

Challenging Social Work (eBook, ePUB)

The Institutional Context of Practice

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Taking account of the political, economic and cultural changes that have impacted on social work over recent years, this book explores the challenges and presents the realities of practice. Using an international range of examples, McDonald makes an important contribution to the ongoing debate about the character and purpose of social work.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juni 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350313781
• Artikelnr.: 62731922

Autorenporträt

CATHERINE MCDONALD is Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Work and Applied Human Sciences at the University of Queensland, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements.- PART ONE.- Preface to Part One.- The Professional Project in the Context of Change.- Modernity, Social Work and the Welfare State.- Challenging Social Work: The Economics of Change.- Challenging Social Work: The Politics of Change.- Challenging Social Work: The Ideas of Change.- Reconstructing Practitioners.- Reconstructing Service Users.- PART TWO.- Preface to Part Two.- Entrepreneurial Social Work.- Evidence-Based Practice.- Critical Practice.- Global Social Work.- Thinking Our Way Forward.- Bibliography.