Asian Social Work: Professional Work in National Contexts

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
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Contents
Contributors
Introduction: point of entry
1 Social work within governmental, social and cultural regimes
2 Social work metamorphoses: practice, education and research
3 Professional practices in national contexts
PART I: Soft authoritarian governments
	4 Hong Kong: ruling principles of the government and responses of social work education and practice
	5 A new horizon for institutionalizing the social work profession: is there a new hope for Malaysia?
	6 Social work education in soft-authoritarian Singapore
	7 Socio-economic development in the context of social work and social welfare in Thailand
PART II: Liberal democracies
	8 Professional uncertainty among Japanese social workers
	9 Social work education in the making of a welfare state: South Korea’s experience
	10 Social work in Taiwan: State programming and the search for an empowered profession
PART III: Fragile democracy
	11 Programming of social work in Indonesia
PART IV: State socialism
	12 The governmental technology of social work in China
	13 Social work education in Vietnam
Notes
References
Index