Social Work Practices: Contemporary Perspectives on Change - Couverture souple

Healy, Karen

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0761962727 ISBN 13 : 9780761962724

Editeur : SAGE Publications Ltd, 1999

Synopsis

Karen Healy profoundly challenges, in the context of the postmodernity of late capitalism, many of the assumptions upon which the critical tradition in social work has been founded. This is a book which interrogates not only the emancipatory metanarratives of left perspectives from her position within the left, but also questions many of the received ideas about her professional power and identity, and about the kinds of social work practices necessary in order to continue to pursue welfare as an emancipatory project under transformed ideological and material circumstances. This is a most significant contribution to the debates which confront social work, worldwide, at the present time.' -

Peter Leonard, McGill University, Canada

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Professor Karen Healy is a social work educator and researcher based at The University of Queensland, Brisbane Australia. She has written five books in the field of social work including works on theory for practice and social work methods and skills. Professor Healy has also written numerous journal articles in a broad range of social work and social policy topics including: professional practice; international comparison of child welfare systems; workforce issues and professional recognition. Professor Healy conducts professional writing workshops with social workers and is involved in research and evaluation of social work practice and social policies.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

This original and stimulating book provides a critical review of contemporary social work theory and considers its relevance for professional practice. Karen Healy outlines critical theoretical perspectives - including feminist, marxist and radical social work - and indicates their implications for social work practice. She goes on to explain contemporary debates on post-structuralism and postmodernism and shows how their application to everyday social work practice would point to a new pragmatism focused on local, contextual and incremental proposals for change. By referring to actual examples, the reader is invited to consider the potential for relevant and diverse forms of social work practice informed by postmodern theory.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0761962727
• ISBN 13: 9780761962724
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 165
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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