Routledge Advances in Social Work
Critical Realism for Welfare Professions
1st Edition
Edited
By Monica Kjørstad, May-Britt Solem
May 21, 2019
As a discipline, social work needs an inclusive metatheory for both research and practice that goes beyond positivism and constructivism. This is the first book to present and discuss how critical realism can contribute to a more useful and realistic approach to both research and practice in social...
Critical Ethics of Care in Social Work: Transforming the Politics and Practices of Caring
1st Edition
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By Bob Pease, Anthea Vreugdenhil, Sonya Stanford
April 18, 2019
This book argues that the concept of care is a political and a moral concept. As such, it enables us to examine moral and political life through a radically different lens. The editors and contributors to the book argue that care has the potential to interrogate relationships of power and to be a ...
Homelessness and Social Work: An Intersectional Approach
1st Edition
By Carole Zufferey
April 18, 2019
Drawing on intersectional theorising, Homelessness and Social Work highlights the diversities and complexities of homelessness and social work research, policy and practice. It invites social work students, practitioners, policy makers and academics to re-examine the subject by exploring how ...
Social Work and Research in Advanced Welfare States
1st Edition
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By Kjeld Hogsbro, Ian F Shaw
April 18, 2019
The aim of this book is to exemplify the ways in which social work and research develop in ‘advanced’ welfare states – countries where public spending is relatively high as a proportion of GNP. While such countries have traditionally been associated with Scandinavian countries in particular, and ...
The Ecosocial Transition of Societies: The contribution of social work and social policy
1st Edition
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By Aila-Leena Matthies, Kati Närhi
April 18, 2019
This groundbreaking book both explains and expands the growing debate on ecological (environmental) social work at the global level. In order to achieve this, the book strengthens the environmental paradigm in social work and social policy by undertaking further research on theoretical and ...
Transnational Social Work and Social Welfare: Challenges for the Social Work Profession
1st Edition
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By Beatrix Schwarzer, Ursula Kämmerer-Rütten, Alexandra Schleyer-Lindenmann, Yafang Wang
August 14, 2018
The underlying frame of social work is the nation state, and it is from within the state that welfare strategies and social policies are devised and implemented. However, post-colonialism, globalisation, migration and the associated implications for human rights, social justice and social welfare ...
Chronic Illness, Vulnerability and Social Work: Autoimmunity and the contemporary disease experience
1st Edition
By Liz Price, Liz Walker
January 22, 2018
Whilst the body has recently assumed greater sociological significance, there has been less engagement in social work and social care on the bodily experience of health, illness and disease. This innovative volume redresses the balance by exploring chronic illness and social work, through the ...
Contemporary Feminisms in Social Work Practice
1st Edition
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By Sarah Wendt, Nicole Moulding
January 22, 2018
Contemporary Feminisms in Social Work Practice explores feminism as core to social work knowledge, practice and ethics. It demonstrates how gender-neutral perspectives and practices obscure gender discourses and power relations. It also shows feminist social work practice can transform areas of ...
Domestic Violence Perpetrators: Evidence-Informed Responses
1st Edition
By John Devaney, Anne Lazenbatt
January 03, 2018
Domestic violence is a serious, widespread public, social and health problem that affects the lives of many women, children and men. There is also evidence to suggest it has one of the highest rates of recidivism. This comprehensive book provides an overview of what the research tells us about the ...
Feminisms in Social Work Research: Promise and possibilities for justice-based knowledge
1st Edition
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By Stéphanie Wahab, Ben Anderson-Nathe, Christina Gringeri
March 29, 2017
Social work as a profession and academic discipline has long centered women and issues of concern to women, such as reproductive rights, labor rights, equal rights, violence and poverty. In fact, the social work profession was started by and maintained in large part by women and has been home to ...
Analysing Social Work Communication: Discourse in Practice
1st Edition
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By Christopher Hall, Kirsi Juhila, Maureen Matarese, Carolus van Nijnatten
December 10, 2014
With communication and relationships at the core of social work, this book reveals the way it is foremost a practice that becomes reality in dialogue, illuminating some of the profession’s key dilemmas. Applied discourse studies illustrate the importance of talk and interaction in the construction ...