Critical and Radical Debates in Social Work

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Edited by Iain Ferguson, University of New South Wales, Michael Lavalette

Publisher:: Bristol University Press
Online publication date:: February 2022
Print publication year:: 2014
Online ISBN:: 9781447317357
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.46692/9781447317357

Subjects:: Sociology: General Interest, Sociology

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An historical overview of adult social care that locates the roots of the current crisis in the under-valuing of older people and adults with disabilities, and in the marketisation of social care over the past two decades.

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Adult social care
pp 157-157

Notes on contributors
pp 158-159

Part One - Lead essay
pp 160-160

The crisis in adult social care
pp 161-195

Part Two - Responses
pp 196-196

The Big Society debate and the social care crisis
pp 197-199

How the market fails social care
pp 200-207

The crisis in social care: deepening the analysis
pp 208-213

Challenging the market and the state
pp 214-218

Personalisation: the experience in Glasgow
pp 219-223

Supporting informal carers
pp 224-228

Part Three - Concluding remarks
pp 229-229

Some concluding remarks
pp 230-235

References
pp 236-246

Mental health
pp 247-247

Notes on contributors
pp 248-249

Part One - Lead essay
pp 250-250

Social work and mental health
pp 251-278

Part Two - Responses
pp 279-279

Letting madness breathe? Critical challenges facing mental health social work today
pp 280-288

Agents of change? Social work for well-being and mental health
pp 289-297

Connecting psychological stress and colonialism
pp 298-304

‘Diagnosis human’: markets, targets and medicalisation in community mental health services
pp 305-309

The problem with recovery
pp 310-317

A student social worker’s perspective
pp 318-322

Observations from the front line
pp 323-328

Part Three - Concluding remarks
pp 329-329

Some concluding thoughts
pp 330-332

References
pp 333-346

Ethics
pp 347-347

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