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Social Work

Themes, Issues and Critical Debates

  • Book is carefully structured to reflect the way in which social work courses are taught
    Tightly edited so that the text reads as a coherent and integrated essential handbook
    International reputation of Malcolm Payne and Lena Dominelli as world class academics and writers
    Reputation of contributors

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Table of contents (24 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
  2. Social Work in Context

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Anti-oppressive practice in context

      • Lena Dominelli
      Pages 3-22
    3. Values, ethics and social work

      • Steven Shardlow
      Pages 23-33
    4. Social work and society

      • Chris Jones
      Pages 34-43
    5. Social policy and social work

      • Carol Walker, Alan Walker
      Pages 44-55
    6. Social work and the law

      • Suzy Braye, Michael Preston-Shoot
      Pages 56-66
    7. Social work and organisations

      • Audrey Mullender, Stella Perrott
      Pages 67-77
    8. Social work through the life course

      • Lena Robinson
      Pages 78-88
    9. Personal and professional development

      • Joyce Lishman
      Pages 89-103
    10. Research and development in social work

      • Angela Everitt
      Pages 104-115
  3. Theories for Practice in Social Work

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 117-117
    2. Social work theories and reflective practice

      • Malcolm Payne
      Pages 119-137
    3. Counselling

      • Helen Cosis Brown
      Pages 138-148
    4. Groupwork

      • Dave Ward
      Pages 149-159
    5. Community work

      • Marjorie Mayo
      Pages 160-172
    6. Psychosocial work

      • David Howe
      Pages 173-183
    7. Cognitive-behavioural practice

      • Katy Cigno
      Pages 184-195
    8. Task-centred work

      • Mark Doel
      Pages 196-206
    9. Radical social work

      • Mary Langan
      Pages 207-217

About this book

Edited by three key academics in social work education, this volume draws together specially commissioned pieces by a range of highly respected experts on the knowledge, theories and skills needed for professional social work practice. Carefully structured to reflect the way in which social work courses are generally taught, it offers a definitive handbook for all beginning social work students, giving them not just a flavour of what being a social worker entails but also a critical sense of the debates (practical and theoretical) that it spawns.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Lincolnshire and Humberside, UK

    Robert Adams

  • Department of Social Work Studies, University of Southampton, UK

    Lena Dominelli

  • Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

    Malcolm Payne

About the editors

ROBERT ADAMS is Professor of Human Services Development at the University of Lincolnshire and Humberside. He is a qualified social worker who worked in the penal system before running a community-based project for Barnardo's. He has written extensively about youth and criminal justice, social work and the personal social services, and protest and empowerment.

LENA DOMINELLI is Professor of Social and Community Development at the University of Southampton. She has worked as a social worker, probation officer and community worker. Her main interests centre around the development of emancipatory forms of practice and recent books include Anti-Racist Social Work (second edition) and Sociology for Social Work.

MALCOLM PAYNE is Professor of Applied Community Studies, the Manchester Metropolitan University, having previously worked in probation, social services departments and the national and local voluntary sector. He is author most recently of Social Work and Community Care, What is Professional Social Work? and Modern Social Work Theory (second edition).

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