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  • av Bruce B. Henderson
    2 030,-

    Is residential care 'inherently harmful'? This book argues that this conventional wisdom is wrong and is, itself, harmful to a significant number of children and youth.

  • - The contribution of social work and social policy
     
    1 966,-

    This groundbreaking book both explains and expands the growing debate on ecological (environmental) social work at the global level. In order to achieve this, the book strengthens the environmental paradigm in social work and social policy by undertaking further research on theoretical and conceptual clarification as well as distinct reflections on its practical directions. The book will be of interest to scholars from a broad range of disciplines, including those in social work and social policy, sustainability, economics, agriculture and environmental studies.

  •  
    1 860,-

    This book studies welfare systems in Europe and beyond from the standpoint of women in vulnerable positions in society. These systems are under major transformations with new models of service delivery and management, austerity measures, requirements for cost-effectiveness, marketization, and the prioritization of services.

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    596,-

    This engaging and timely volume contributes new knowledge to the rapidly emerging field of globalisation and social work. Interdisciplinary approaches bring together cutting edge scholarship from countries such as Australia, Finland, Japan, South Africa and Sweden.

  • - A Human Rights Approach
     
    1 860,-

    Nationalist populism poses direct attacks on social tolerance, human rights discourse, political debates, the survival of the welfare state, impacting on the roles of social work. This book demonstrates how nationalist populism can and must be countered.

  • - Discourse in Practice
     
    2 116,-

  • - Critical Pedagogy and Practice for Social Change
     
    1 970,-

  • - Institutional Change in Russia
     
    1 996,-

    This book provides new and empirically grounded research-based knowledge and insights into the current transformation of the Russian child welfare system.

  • - Autoimmunity and the contemporary disease experience
    av Liz Price & Liz Walker
    710 - 1 966,-

  • - Critical Posthuman and New Materialist Perspectives
     
    2 090,-

    This book seeks to trouble taken-for-granted assumptions of anthropocentrism and humanism in social work - that which perpetuates human privilege and human exceptionalism. The edited collection provides a different imaginary for social work by introducing ways of thinking otherwise, which challenge human exceptionalism.

  • av Susanne (Free University of Bolzano Elsen
    1 970,-

  • - Promise and possibilities for justice-based knowledge
     
    2 170,-

    This wide-ranging volume both maps the contemporary landscape of feminist social work research, and offers a deep engagement with critical and third wave feminisms in social work research. Containing an international selection of contributions, it is an important reference for all social work researchers with an interest in critical perspectives.

  • - Issues and Challenges
     
    2 036,-

    Social Work in a Global Context engages with, and critically explores, key issues that inform social work practice around the world. It is the first truly international book for all those interested in comparative and cross-cultural understandings of social work.

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    2 036,-

    This book explores feminism as core to social work knowledge, practice and ethics. It not only demonstrates how gender-neutral perspectives and practices obscure gender but also how feminist social work practice can transform areas of social work not specifically concerned with gender, through its emphasis on relationships and power.

  • - Evidence-Informed Responses
    av John (Queen's University Belfast, UK) Devaney, UK) Lazenbatt & m.fl.
    740 - 1 966,-

  • - Challenges for the Social Work Profession
     
    1 966,-

    This book challenges the idea of the nation state as a given entity and argues that globalization, new media as well as an increasing number of people crossing borders must have an impact on the theories and strategies of social work. With cases covering China, France, India, UK, Germany, Morocco, Malaysia, Israel and Turkey, it highlights the challenges as well as the opportunities this new perspective can open up for theories and strategies in social work. Intended for students, researchers and social workers interested in migration, social care, poverty and cultural competency in health and social care.

  • - An Intersectional Approach
    av Carole (University of South Australia) Zufferey
    660 - 2 070,-

  • - Supporting Young People Leaving State Care to Fulfil Their Potential
    av UK) Driscoll & Jennifer (King's College London
    766 - 2 116,-

  •  
    1 860,-

    This engaging and timely volume contributes new knowledge to the rapidly emerging field of globalisation and social work. Interdisciplinary approaches bring together cutting edge scholarship from countries such as Australia, Finland, Japan, South Africa and Sweden. Major environmental, social and cultural issues are explored, developing an epistemology of situated knowledge and methodologies in order to examines how social work has responded to specific social problems, crises and vulnerabilities in a glocalised world. It proposes `glocalisation¿ as a useful concept for re-framing conditions and practices for social work in a world perspective.

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    1 860,-

    The aim of this book is to exemplify the ways in which social work and research develop in `advanced¿ welfare states ¿ countries where public spending is relatively high as a proportion of GNP. While such countries have traditionally been associated with Scandinavian countries in particular, and North-Western Europe more generally, there are other countries where the public spend on welfare is relatively high.

  •  
    1 970,-

    This book contributes to the development of new knowledge in social work by bringing a critical realist perspective in a wide range of disciplinary fields. The chapters show how critical realism as a theory of science may contribute to a more useful and realistic approach to both research and practice in social work.

  • - Promise and possibilities for justice-based knowledge
     
    686,-

    This wide-ranging volume both maps the contemporary landscape of feminist social work research, and offers a deep engagement with critical and third wave feminisms in social work research. Containing an international selection of contributions, it is an important reference for all social work researchers with an interest in critical perspectives.

  • - Transforming the Politics and Practices of Caring
     
    2 180,-

    This book argues that the concept of care is a political and a moral concept. It enables us to examine moral and political life through a radically different lens. It is argued that care has the potential to interrogate relationships of power and to be a tool for radical political analysis for an emerging critical social work.

  • - Implications for Social Work and Social Policy
     
    1 996,-

  • - Activism and Practice in Context
     
    1 860,-

    Bringing intersectionality to the forefront of social work within a Black feminist framework this book is concerned with practice and action that transgresses boundaries of race, religion and citizenship, to invoke the idea of social work without borders. It offers a unique, sustained critical analysis of the psychological impact of oppressive social structures from diverse range of international standpoints and will appeal to all those concerned by inequality and injustice in social work as well as those with research interests gender studies, race and ethnicity and sociology.

  • - Perspectives for the 21st Century
     
    1 860,-

    This book considers concepts of citizenship and social justice from a variety of contemporary perspectives, inviting readers to consider the complex relationships between love and justice, the battle for social equality and individual ways in which citizenship and social justice is perceived through culture, media and the arts.

  •  
    720,-

    This book explores feminism as core to social work knowledge, practice and ethics. It not only demonstrates how gender-neutral perspectives and practices obscure gender but also how feminist social work practice can transform areas of social work not specifically concerned with gender, through its emphasis on relationships and power.

  • - Power, Culture, Analysis
    av Sonia M. (Western Sydney University Tascon
    1 996,-

  • - Talking with Youth in Care
    av Gerald (Carleton University de Montigny
    1 996,-

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