Best Practice in Social Work
Subtitle: Critical Perspectives
Contributors: Harry Ferguson (Editor); Karen Jones (Editor); Barry Cooper (Editor)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: February 5, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781403985019
Subjects: Social Work; Social Science / Social Work; Social Science; Sociology; Social case work; Social service; Social workers; Training of
Description: 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 of its 16 chapters provides a detailed account of practice, offering a series of vivid windows onto day-to-day social work at its best, framed by concepts and ideas drawn from critical theory. The resulting text combines theory, illustration, evidence and analysis in a way that promotes reflection on what makes good practice and why. Undergraduate and post-qualifying social work students alike will benefit from the insights offered by this rich, wide-ranging and multi-facetted text.