Working Definition of Social Work Practice

Guest Editor's Foreword......Page 1
Working Definition of Social Work Practice......Page 4
The History of the Working Definition of Practice......Page 9
Gordon Versus the Working Definition: Lessons from a Classic Critique......Page 23
Defining Social Work: Does the Working Definition Work Today?......Page 39
A Client-Focused Definition of Social Work Practice......Page 51
Transforming the Working Definition of Social Work into the 21st Century......Page 66
Bartlett's Definition of Social Work Practice: A Generalist Educator's Perspective......Page 82
A Generalist Working Definition of Social Work: A Response to Bartlett......Page 93
Toward a Definition of Social Work Practice: Reframing the Dichotomy......Page 102
The Working Definition of Social Work Practice: Does it Work?......Page 112
The Working Definition of Social Work Doesn't Work Very Well in China and Malaysia......Page 123
Resource and Educational Empowerment: A Social Work Paradigm for the Disenfranchised......Page 136
A New Working Definition of Social Work Practice: A Turtle's View......Page 149