Engaging with Social Work A Critical Introduction
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Contemporary global challenges require practitioners to confidently analyse the dominant discourses and develop frameworks and strategies for future change. Engaging with Social Work equips students with a critical perspective and develops their understanding of social work and human services practice, with an emphasis on the principles of social justice and human rights. This fully revised second edition includes a new chapter on the emerging challenges and opportunities for social work, covering rising global inequality, re-invigorated possibilities for addressing violence against…
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Key features
- Provides an integrated critical perspective to practising social work and encourages the reader to challenge dominant social discourses and to consider their own personal values, biases and assumptions
- This new edition covers the prominent topics of family violence, critical practice with diverse communities and responding to the rise in global inequality
- A new instructor website includes links to video resources and web materials, accompanied by extension questions
About the book
- DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108681094
- Subjects Social policy and social work,Sociology
- Editions 2nd Edition (Current edition)
- Format: Paperback
- Publication date: 25 January 2019
- ISBN: 9781108452816
- Dimensions (mm): 255 x 190 mm
- Weight: 0.88kg
- Contains: 46 b/w illus. 1 table
- Page extent: 432 pages
- Availability: In stock
- Format: Digital
- Publication date: 15 March 2019
- ISBN: 9781108681094
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