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Record Nr.

UNINA9910795198203321

Autore

Mohan Brij <1939->

Titolo

The future of social work : seven pillars of practice / / Brij Mohan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Los Angeles, CA : , : SAGE Publications, Inc., , 2018

ISBN

93-5328-072-9

93-5280-626-3

93-5280-627-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (158 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

361.32

Soggetti

Social service

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Foreword / by Peter Herrmann -- Prologue -- Poverty, war and welfare -- The world of welfare -- Plateaus and platitudes of practice -- Archaeology of social practice -- Transforming social work -- Hermeneutics of help -- Seven pillars of social practice -- Environmental justice : a practice model -- Freedom and vocabularies of change -- The end of social work : epilogue -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the author and the foreword writer.

Sommario/riassunto

Social media and the digital revolution have fundamentally changed the meaning of "social" and "work." Social work, like all other professions, will undergo dramatic changes as apps and algorithms overtake human operations. The failure of social sciences in general and social work in particular warrants thoughtful innovations that ensure sustainable services.