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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451959403321

Autore

Healy Karen

Titolo

Social work practices [[electronic resource] ] : contemporary perspectives on change / / Karen Healy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : SAGE, 2000

ISBN

1-283-88145-4

1-4462-6567-6

0-7619-6271-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (177 p.)

Disciplina

361.3/2

Soggetti

Social service - Philosophy

Human services

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 - Social Work: Contemporary Challenges; Chapter 2 - The Legacy of Our Past and the Nature of Our Present; Chapter 3 - Foucault, Feminism and the Politics of Emancipation; Chapter 4 - Critical Social Work Responses to 'Post' Theories; Chapter 5 - Rethinking Professional Power and Identity; Chapter 6 - Liberation or Regulation: Interrogating the Practices of Change; Chapter 7 - Reconstructing Critical Practices; Chapter 8 - Conclusions; Appendix: Conversation Transcription Conventions; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Social Work Practices is a critical review of contemporary social work theory and its relevance for professional practice. The author explains debates on postmodernism and poststructuralism and applies them to social work practice.