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Routledge Advances in Social Work

64 Series Titles


International Perspectives on Social Work and Political Conflict

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

Responsibilisation at the Margins of Welfare Services

1st Edition

Edited 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

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

Consciousness-Raising: Critical Pedagogy and Practice for Social Change

1st Edition

Edited 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

Art in Social Work Practice: Theory and Practice: International Perspectives

1st Edition

Edited 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

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

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

Intersectionality in Social Work: Activism and Practice in Context

1st Edition

Edited 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

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

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 ...

Visual Communication for Social Work Practice Power, Culture, Analysis

Visual Communication for Social Work Practice: Power, Culture, Analysis

1st Edition

By Sonia M. Tascón
June 30, 2020

How are we to understand how the dominance of visual images and representations in late modernity affects Social Work practice, research and education? Social workers are increasingly using still and moving images to illustrate their work, to create new knowledge, and to further specific groups’ ...

Vulnerability and Marginality in Human Services

Vulnerability and Marginality in Human Services

1st Edition

By Mark Henrickson, Christa Fouché
June 30, 2020

Vulnerability has traditionally been conceived as a dichotomised status, where an individual by reason of a personal characteristic is classified as vulnerable or not. However, vulnerability is not static, and most, if not all, people are vulnerable at some time in their lives. Similarly, ...

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