Social Work: A Reader

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Table
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction Reading Social Work
Part I: The Profession of Social Work
	Commentary One
	1 Black History Month: A Provocation and a Timeline
	2 But is it Social Work?
	3 The Politics of Social Work
	4 Changes in the form of Knowledge in Social Work: From the ‘Social’ to the ‘Informational’?
	5 The Quest for a Universal Social Work: Some Issues and Implications
	6 The (R)evolution and Decolonization of Social Work Ethics: The Global Social Work Statement of Ethical Principles
	7 Human Rights Practice: Possibilities and Pitfalls for Developing Emancipatory Social Work
	8 The Impact of Scandal and Inquiries on Social Work and the Personal Social Services
	9 Social Work in a Risk Society
	10 Am I my Brother’s Keeper?
	11 Research from the Underside
	12 What is Professional Social Work?
	13 The Client Speaks
	14 Service Users and Practitioners Reunited: The Key Component for Social Work Reform
Part II: Knowledge and Values for Social Work
	Commentary Two
	15 The Sociological Imagination
	16 Reassessing Attachment Theory in Child Welfare
	17 A Critique of the Adverse Childhood Experiences Framework in Epidemiology and Public Health: Uses and Misuses
	18 Resilience: Some Conceptual Considerations
	19 A Critical Understanding of Social Work by Paolo Freire
	20 There is an Alternative: Homines Curans and the Limits of Neoliberalism
	21 The Social Model of Disability
	22 The Relevance of Nancy Fraser for Transformative Social Work Education
	23 Feminism for the 99%
	24 Intersectionality’s Definitional Dilemmas
	25 Learning to Deliver LGBT+ Aged Care
	26 Towards Practising Social Work Law
	27 What are Values and Ethics?
	28 Green Social Work in theory and Practice: A New Environmental Paradigm for the Profession
Part III: Practice in Social Work
	Commentary Three
	29 On the Nature of Practice
	30 ‘Radical Social Work’ by Roy Bailey and Mike Brake: A Classic Text Revisited
	31 The Critical Role of Street Level Bureaucrats
	32 Assessment in the Twenty-First Century
	33 The Significance of African-Centered Social Work for Social Work Practice
	34 Bridging the Past and Present to the Future of Crisis Intervention and Crisis Management
	35 The Contemporary Context of Relationship-Based Practice
	36 The Ecological Systems Metaphor in Australasia
	37 The Strengths Perspective in Social Work Practice: Extensions and Cautions
	38 Personalisation through Participation: A New Script for Public Services
	39 Collaboration and Partnership in Context
	40 A Review of Donald A. Schön’s, The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action
	41 Making things New: Distant Voices and Unbound at Vox Liminis with Padraig O’Tuama
Index