Routledge Advances in Social Work
Women, Vulnerabilities and Welfare Service Systems
1st Edition
Edited
By Marjo Kuronen, Elina Virokannas, Ulla Salovaara
April 29, 2022
This book studies welfare systems in Europe and beyond from the standpoint of women in vulnerable positions in society. These systems are under major transformations with new models of service delivery and management, austerity measures, requirements for cost-effectiveness, marketization, and the ...
Asian Social Work: Professional Work in National Contexts
1st Edition
Edited
By Ian Shaw, Rosaleen Ow
June 30, 2021
The countries of East and Southeast Asia, taken as a whole, display a laboratory of social and political conditions, with individual countries presenting a variety of political, cultural and social characteristics. Some with one-party state systems, others with stable liberal democracies and yet ...
International Perspectives on Social Work and Political Conflict
1st Edition
Edited
By Joe Duffy, Jim Campbell, Carol Tosone
June 30, 2021
International Perspectives on Social Work and Political Conflict provides an important basis for readers to recognise and understand the unique and specialist role that social workers have played and continue to play in international contexts of political conflict. Social workers make an important ...
Responsibilisation at the Margins of Welfare Services
1st Edition
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By Kirsi Juhila, Suvi Raitakari, Christopher Hall
March 31, 2021
The impetus for this book is the shift in welfare policy in Western Europe from state responsibilities to individual and community responsibilities. The book examines the ways in which policies associated with advanced liberalism and New Public Management can be identified as influencing ...
The International Development of Social Work Education: The Vietnam Experience
1st Edition
By Edward Cohen, Alice Hines, Laurie Drabble, Hoa Nguyen, Meekyung Han, Soma Sen, Debra Faires
December 18, 2020
A robust infrastructure for education and training is vital for the development of an emerging social work education in developing countries. This book fills a gap in the existing literature by providing analysis of international practice methods which can be used by developing countries to develop...
Consciousness-Raising: Critical Pedagogy and Practice for Social Change
1st Edition
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By Nilan Yu
August 14, 2020
Almost everywhere across the world, economic inequality has been rising within and across national borders. The vision of a fairer world embodied in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is being assailed by the advance of conservative ideology aided by vitriolic right-wing populism sweeping ...
Art in Social Work Practice: Theory and Practice: International Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Ephrat Huss, Eltje Bos
June 30, 2020
This is the first book ever to be published on arts use in social work. Bringing together theoretical connections between arts and social work, and with practice examples of arts in micro and macro social work practice from around the world, the book aims to inspire the reader with new ideas. It ...
Conversation Analysis for Social Work: Talking with Youth in Care
1st Edition
By Gerald de Montigny
June 30, 2020
What do the stories youth in state care tell about life in their family of origin? What stories do they tell us about coming into care, living in care, and relationships with foster-parents and social workers? This book presents the stories of youth in care, though not in splendid isolation, but as...
Eco-Social Transformation and Community-Based Economy
1st Edition
By Susanne Elsen
June 30, 2020
Worldwide societal problems such as mass unemployment, growing social disparities, public and private poverty, social exclusion, environmental destruction and the evidence of climate change are increasing and becoming ever more visible. They require urgent and sustainable long-term ...
Intersectionality in Social Work: Activism and Practice in Context
1st Edition
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By Suryia Nayak, Rachel Robbins
June 30, 2020
This ground breaking book is an innovative, passionate and provocative exploration of intersectionality. The sustained emphasis on activism and practice reasserts the potency of intersectionality borne out of Black feminism. The rare and pioneering international reach of this book crosses four ...
Participatory Pedagogic Impact Research: Co-production with Community Partners in Action
1st Edition
By Mike Seal
June 30, 2020
Involvement of community partners in the structure and design of services is largely accepted in principle, but its practice is heavily contested. This book argues that the co-production of research is one of the best ways to involve community partners. As well as having intrinsic value in and of ...
The Uses and Abuses of Humour in Social Work
1st Edition
By Stephen Jordan
June 30, 2020
In recent years, social work academics and practitioners have highlighted the need to "re-claim" methodologies which unpack creativity and resourcefulness. In the bleakest of times many turn to humour to survive. Making a unique contribution to social work thought, this is the first book to focus ...