While Social Work theory tends to emphasise helping individuals and challenging social injustice, the reality of practice is characterised by challenge and conflict.
This text offers a new concept of Social Work that explains the nature of these conflicts and moves beyond them, with an inspiring and practical vision of what Social Work is and should be.
Placing rights at the heart of practice, this introduction to social work will be useful to practitioners and students with a substantive contribution to the theoretical literature that emphasises the role of social work when rights may be in conflict, enabling students and workers to become more confident dealing with the uncomfortable realities of practice.
By:
Donald Forrester (Cardiff University)
Imprint: Policy Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781447367666
ISBN 10: 1447367669
Pages: 202
Publication Date: 01 March 2024
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Professional and scholarly
,
Primary
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Introduction Part 1: An Introduction to Rights Based Social Work 1. The Enlightenment, Social Work and Progress 2. Freedom, rights, equality, solidarity and social work 3. Needs, Rights and Social Work Part 2: Core Intellectual Traditions for a Rights Based Social Work 4. Humanist Social Work 5. The Social Model Part 3: How to Practice Rights Based Social Work 6. Assessment as Theory Development 7. Good assessment: Formulation and Resolution 8. Assessing Change 9. Good Practice in Direct Work: Purposeful Dialogue 10. Purposeful Dialogue and Good Authority 11. Purposeful Dialogue and Helping People 12. Creating a Collaborative Plan 13. Final Thoughts and Future Directions
Donald Forrester is Professor of Child and Family Social Work and Director of CASCADE Centre for Children's Social Care Research and Development at Cardiff University.
