Best Practice in Social Work: Critical Perspectives - Softcover

Jones, Karen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1403985014 ISBN 13: 9781403985019

Publisher: Palgrave, 2007

Synopsis

Unusual book

About this title

About the Author:

HARRY FERGUSON is Professor of Social Work at the University of West of England, UK. He is a qualified social worker and has practiced, taught, researched and published extensively on social work for thirty years. He is the author of Protecting Children in Time: Child Abuse, Child Protection and the Consequences of Modernity (Palgrave 2004).

KAREN JONES is Senior Lecturer in Social Work in the Faculty of Health and Social Care at the University of West of England, UK where she co-ordinates the post qualifying award in adult social work. She has practiced as a social worker in mental health, learning difficulties and adult disability.

BARRY COOPER is Lecturer in Social Work with The Open University, UK. He is the author of a number of journal articles on social work theory, practice, and continuing professional development.

Synopsis:

What is social work at its best? Social work has laboured too long under a 'deficit' model that focuses on failings and problems of practice. This ambitious book seeks to redress the balance, with its emphasis on best practice, strengths and collaborative partnership. Each chapter provides a detailed account of practice, offering a series of vivid windows into social work at its best, framed by concepts and critical theory. Undergraduate and post-qualifying social work students alike will benefit from the insights offered by this rich, wide-ranging and multi-facetted text.

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1403985014
• ISBN 13: 9781403985019
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320