Practising Social Work Sociologically: A Theoretical approach for New Times - Softcover

Dunk-West, Priscilla

Softcover

ISBN 10: 113754807X ISBN 13: 9781137548078

Publisher: Red Globe Press, 2018

Synopsis

This timely and much needed text book presents an innovative, theoretically based approach that helps students, practitioners and researchers alike orientate their view and sensibilities in a rapidly evolving modern world. Traditional social work approaches are often ill-equipped to take into account the emerging social change which has resulted from technological change, globalisation and mobilities, as well as environmental change. By bringing sociological social work perspectives to contemporary practice, it draws on concepts from a range of disciplines in recognition that we are collective thinkers and actors and that our ideas are shaped by what we read and build upon.

Whether taking a social work theory module or preparing for placement, this sociological perspective provides a crucial foundation for practice and puts the ‘social’ back in to ‘social work’.

About this title

About the Author

Dr Priscilla Dunk-West is Senior Lecturer in Social Work in the School of Social and Policy Studies at Finders University, Australia.; Professor Fiona Verity is Professor of Social Work and Social Care in the College of Health and Human Sciences, Swansea University, Wales, UK.

From the Back Cover

Social Work has a wonderful history of engagement with creative ideas and imagination. We need more of this now. Inequality, poverty, lack of access to employment and affordable housing, and a tightening welfare system test conventional social work approaches. The speed and scale of the challenges we face demand we come back to these approaches with urgency and enthusiasm.

Practising Social Work Sociologically presents an innovative, theoretically based approach that helps students, practitioners and researchers alike orientate their view and sensibilities in a rapidly changing modern world. By bringing sociological social work perspectives to contemporary practice, it draws on concepts from a range of disciplines in recognition that we are collective thinkers and actors and that our ideas are shaped by what we read and build upon.

Dunk-West & Verity expertly stitch together examples of academic frameworks that locate sociology as an indispensable social work art and science. A sociological perspective is a crucial foundation for practice and an essential sensibility to put the 'social' back in to 'social work'.

Edition details

• Publisher: Red Globe Press
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 113754807X
• ISBN 13: 9781137548078
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 148