Routledge Advances in Social Work
Systems Complexity in Child Protection and Welfare: Policy, Leadership, Practice and Evaluation
1st Edition
By Aisling Gillen, John Canavan, Carmel Devaney, Caroline McGregor
December 03, 2024
This book examines systems complexity theory and specifically, system and dynamic characteristics of complexity, with a key focus on self/organisation/emergence/adaptation; path-dependence; and bifurcation. Exploring systems complexity at the heart of child protection and welfare policymaking, ...
Social Work, Social Welfare, and Social Development in Nigeria: A Postcolonial Perspective
1st Edition
By Mel Gray, Solomon Amadasun
October 09, 2024
This groundbreaking book provides a comprehensive account of social work, social welfare, and social development in Nigeria from a postcolonial perspective. It examines the historical development of social work and social welfare and the colonial legacies affecting contemporary social welfare ...
Language Discordant Social Work in a Multilingual World: The Space Between
1st Edition
By Hilde Fiva Buzungu
October 08, 2024
Based on ethnographic observations of encounters between social workers and people with whom they do not have a shared language, this book analyzes the impact of language discordance on the quality of professional service provision. Exploring how street-level bureaucrats navigate the landscape of ...
Revitalising Critical Reflection in Contemporary Social Work Research, Practice and Education
1st Edition
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By Christian Franklin Svensson, Pia Ringø
August 26, 2024
Globally, social work faces increasingly complex cultural, political, economic, legal, organisational, technological and professional conditions. Critically reflecting on the subject, this book heightens critical consciousness among social work researchers, educators, practitioners and students ...
Boys’ Stories of Their Time in a Residential School: ‘The Best Years of Our Lives’
1st Edition
By Mark Smith
May 27, 2024
This book provides rich insights into the pre and post care experiences of boys who were pupils in a residential school where the author worked over the course of the 1980s. It describes the boys’ trajectories through life, as well as detailing the rhythms, rituals, routines, and relationships that...
Revolutionary Social Work: Promoting Systemic Changes
1st Edition
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By Masoud Kamali
May 27, 2024
This book shows how social work can be an active agent for promoting revolutionary changes in order to counter the global neoliberal market fundamentalism which is destroying our planet and reinforcing socioeconomic inequalities, political instability, antidemocratic political ideologies and ...
Social Work and Climate Justice: International Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Devendraraj Madhanagopal, Bala Raju Nikku
May 27, 2024
This book argues that climate justice is an urgent and defining global challenge with long-term implications for poverty reduction, livelihoods, community well-being, and sustainable development. It provides a thorough overview of both fundamental and new directions of knowledge and policy ...
Social Work, Social Welfare, Unemployment and Vulnerability Among Youth
1st Edition
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By Vibeke Bak Nielsen, Petra Malin, Ilse Julkunen, Lars Uggerhøj
January 29, 2024
Social Work, Social Welfare, Unemployment and Vulnerability Among Youth critically analyses contemporary welfare state interventions on unemployment and poverty among youth in a context of societal transformation. It also considers how we can develop future knowledge and methods in evolving welfare...
The Complexities of Home in Social Work
1st Edition
By Carole Zufferey, Christopher Horsell
January 29, 2024
Home is a complex and multifaceted concept. This book revisions how ‘home’ is used in social work literature by showing how it is positioned as being discursively represented, materially experienced and embodied, and multiply imagined as symbolic and existential. Drawing on multidisciplinary ...
A New History of Social Work: Values and Practice in the Struggle for Social Justice
1st Edition
By John H. Pierson
May 31, 2023
This book provides an overview of the main developments in social work over its 200-year history. From its beginnings in the early 19th century through to the present day, it recounts the efforts to create a fairer, socially just society through its work with individuals and families. Throughout, ...
Understanding System Change in Child Protection and Welfare
1st Edition
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By John Canavan, Carmel Devaney, Caroline McGregor, Aileen Shaw
May 31, 2023
This book provides an account of the experience of a multifaceted system-change programme to strengthen the capacity of Ireland’s statutory child protection and welfare agency in the areas of prevention, early intervention and family support. Many jurisdictions globally are involved in system ...
The Body Politics of Glocal Social Work: Essays on the Post-Anthropocentric Condition
1st Edition
By Mona B. Livholts
December 30, 2022
This book shapes a situated body politics to re-think, re-write, and de-colonise social work as a post-anthropocentric discipline headed towards glocalisation, where human and non-human embodiments and agencies are entangled in glocal environmental worlds. It critically and creatively examines how ...