Challenging Social Work The Institutional Context of Practice

This book explores the challenges facing social work, prepares readers for the realities of practice, and engages the reader in a comprehensive, theoretically informed yet accessible analysis of why social work needs to reconstitute itself.

Catherine McDonald is Director, Bachelor of Social Work at The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.

Acknowledgements * PART ONE * Preface to Part One * The Professional Project in the Context of Change * Modernity, Social Work and the Welfare State * Challenging Social Work: The Economics of Change * Challenging Social Work: The Politics of Change * Challenging Social Work: The Ideas of Change * Reconstructing Practitioners * Reconstructing Service Users * PART TWO * Preface to Part Two * Entrepreneurial Social Work * Evidence-Vased Practice * Critical Practice * Global Social Work * Thinking Our Way Forward * Bibliography