International Social Work

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ISBN: 9781847875631 | 1847875637
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Copyright: 1/28/2010

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This four-volume set covers a broad scope and range of international social work knowledge and research and contains seminal and landmark publications in social work with a particular emphasis on contemporary key publications to compliment earlier classic works. The readings combine empirical with conceptual articles that not only cover significant knowledge and key debates in the field but also show how international social work has developed through research.

Welfare Theory and Approaches
Perspectives on the Development of Welfare
Citizenship and Social Class
The Three Political Economies of the Welfare State
The New Politics of the Welfare State
Welfarism, Governance and the State
Some Contradictions of the Modern Welfare State
Society, the State, Social Problems and Social Policy
Relief, Labour and Civil Disorder: An overview
The Changing Governance of Welfare: Recent trends in its primary functions, scale, and modes of coordination
Welfare Professionals and Street Level Bureaucrats
Professional Work
Am I my Brother's Keeper?
The Professional is Political
Street-level Bureaucrats as Policy Makers
Gender, Care and the Subject of Welfare
Women and Social Welfare
Gender and the Development of Welfare Regimes
The Concept of Social Care and the Analysis of Contemporary Welfare States
Good-enough Principles for Welfare
Democratic Subjects
Welfare and Social Development
Growth, Redistribution, and Welfare: Toward social investment
The Place of Social Capital in Understanding Social and Economic Outcomes
Social Work Practice
Practice Perspectives
Is Social Work a Profession?
The Problem-Solving Work
Is Casework Effective? A review
Conceptions of Social Work
The Life Model of Social Work Practice: An overview
Behavioral Social Work: Past, present, and future
The Strengths Perspective in Social Work Practice: Extensions and cautions
Knowledge for Practice
Knowledge for Social Work
Boundaries of Social Work or Social Work of Boundaries
Notes on the Form of Knowledge in Social Work
Many Ways of Knowing
The Knowledge Base of Social Work Practice: Theory, wisdom, analogue, or art
The Ethical Implications of Current Theoretical Developments in Social Work
The Theory and Practice relationship
Some Thoughts on the Relationship between Theory and Practice in and for Social Work
Surface and Depth in Social Work Practice
Practice Assessment
Reflections on the Assessment of Outcomes in Child Care
Common Errors of Reasoning in Child Protection Work
Practicing Empowerment
Rethinking Empowerment
Empowerment and Oppression: An indissoluble pairing for contemporary social work
Empowering Practice: Understanding and managing user-worker processes
Social Work Research
Mapping the Social Work Research Agenda
Cutting Edge Issues in Social Work Research
Confirmational Response Bias among Social Work Journals
A Code of Ethics for Social Work and Social Care Research
Research Note: Research and empowerment
Qualitative Social Work Research
The Social Work Context for Qualitative Research
Does the Glove Really Fit? Qualitative research and clinical social work practice
Theorizing from Practice: Towards an inclusive approach for social work research
Issues of Visibility and Colleague Relationships
Researching Reflective Practice
Schon Shock: A case for refraining reflection-in-action?
There's No Such Thing as Reflection
Evidence-based Social Work
Developing Empirically Based Models of Practice
Evidence-Based Social Care: Wheels off the runway?
Some Considerations on the Validity of Evidence-based Practice in Social Work
The Validity of Evidence-Based Practice in Social Work: A reply to Stephen Webb
Evidence-Based Practice: Counterarguments and objections
Evidence-Based Practice and Social Work
Critical Perspectives
The Relationship between Qualitative and Quantitative Research: Paradigm loyalty versus methodological eclecticism
Science, Research, and Social Work: Who controls the profession
The Quest for Evidence-Based Practice? We are all positivists!
Evaluation with One Eye Closed: The empiricist agenda in social work research
The Limits of Positivism in Social Work Research
Beyond Retroduction?-Hermeneutics, reflexivity and social work practice
Future Challenges
The Future(s) of Social Work
The Social Work Revolution
Social Work Practice in the 21st Century
The Movement of Social Work to Private Practice (and Away From the Poor)
Social Work in the University
Social Work at the Crossroads
The Future of Social Work as a Profession
Social Work, Modernity and Postmodernity
Social Work, Modernity and Post Modernity
Modernity, Postmodernity and Social Work
Deprofessionalizing Social Work: Anti-oppressive practice, competencies and postmodernism
Problematics of Government, (Post) Modernity and Social Work
Parton, Howe and Postmodernity: A critical comment on mistaken identity
New Policies and Technologies
Mapping Child-Care Social Work in the Final Years of the Twentieth Century: A critical response to the 'looking after children' system'
Tough Love: Social work, social exclusion and the third way
The Impact of Audit on Social Work Practice
Clinical Practice Guidelines: Should social work develop them?
Interprofessionality in Health and Social Care: The Achilles' heel of partnership?
Service Users, Social Policy and the Future of Welfare
International Social Work
Professionalization in Social Work: The challenge of diversity
Issues in International Social Work: Resolving critical debates in the profession
Local Orders and Global Chaos in Social Work
Defining Social Work for the 21st Century
Dilemmas of International Social Work: Paradoxical processes in indigenization, universalism and imperialism
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