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Social Work

A Critical Approach to Practice

Jan Fook author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Sage Publications Ltd

Published:12th Oct '22

Should be back in stock very soon

Social Work cover

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 Practices 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.
 

ISBN: 9781529790238

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 430g

248 pages

4th Revised edition