Routledge Advances in Social Work
Transnational Social Work and Social Welfare: Challenges for the Social Work Profession
1st Edition
Edited
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
Edited
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
Edited
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
Edited
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 ...