Radical Social Work Today
Title | Radical Social Work Today PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Lavalette |
Publisher | Policy Press |
Pages | 250 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1847428177 |
To celebrate the 35th anniversary of the seminal text Radical Social Work (1975), this volume has been compiled to explore the radical tradition within social work and assess its legacy, relevance and prospects. It is essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduates studying social work, as well as social work academics and researchers.
Radical Social Work
Title | Radical Social Work PDF eBook |
Author | Roy Bailey |
Publisher | Hodder Education |
Pages | 184 |
Release | 1975 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN |
Radical Social Work in Practice
Title | Radical Social Work in Practice PDF eBook |
Author | Ferguson, Iain |
Publisher | Policy Press |
Pages | 204 |
Release | 2009-05-14 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9781861349910 |
This much-needed textbook provides a fresh understanding of the radical tradition and shows how it can be developed in contemporary social work.
Radical Social Work
Title | Radical Social Work PDF eBook |
Author | Roy Victor Bailey |
Publisher | Pantheon |
Pages | 246 |
Release | 1975 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN |
The Road Not Taken
Title | The Road Not Taken PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Reisch |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Pages | 300 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780415933995 |
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Radical Challenges for Social Work Education
Title | Radical Challenges for Social Work Education PDF eBook |
Author | Jane Fenton |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 164 |
Release | 2022-04-19 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1000573559 |
This book is full of ideas about how social work education can confront the individualising and often blaming form of social work that neoliberalism ushered in four decades ago. Radical social work is an approach to social work that has, at its heart, the departure from solely behavioural, moral or psychological understanding of service users’ problems. Social work had originally been concerned with the moral character of people in trouble (usually poor people), making a clear division between those who were ‘deserving’ of help and those who were ‘undeserving’. The rise of science and the ‘psy’ disciplines then led to psychological explanations for the difficulties people found themselves in. Both explanations for social problems – moral and psychological – with their narrow focus on the individual have been enjoying a renaissance in recent times with the neoliberal self-sufficiency narrative (moral) and the more recent focus on trauma (psychological). Radical social work challenges those explanations, concerned as it is with the circumstances a person might find themselves in – poverty, poor housing, poor education, high crime rates, and lack of opportunities of all kinds. This book is a step towards resurrecting radical social work principles, and it urges us to think about how social work education can be reshaped to that end. Radical Challenges for Social Work Education is a significant new contribution to social work practice and theory, and will be a great resource for academics, researchers, and advanced students of Politics, Education, Social Work, Sociology, Public Policy, Development Studies, Anthropology, and Human Geography. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal Social Work Education.
Radical Social Work in Practice
Title | Radical Social Work in Practice PDF eBook |
Author | Ferguson, Iain |
Publisher | Policy Press |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 2009-05-14 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1861349912 |
This much-needed textbook provides a fresh understanding of the radical tradition and shows how it can be developed in contemporary social work.