M. Hardy

Governing Risk

Care and Control in Contemporary Social Work

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on Foucault's later work on governmentality, this book traces the effects of 'the rise of risk' on contemporary social work practice. Focusing on two 'domains' of practice - mental health social work and probation work - it analyses the ways in which risk thinking has affected social work's aims and objectives, methods and approaches.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-230-36415-8
• 2015
• Seitenzahl: 221
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 413g
• ISBN-13: 9780230364158
• ISBN-10: 0230364152
• Artikelnr.: 41090995

Autorenporträt

Mark Hardy is Lecturer in Social Work at the University of York, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Enduring Debates in Social Work 2. Accounting for 'the Rise of Risk' 3. Mental Health Social Work: A Case in Point 4. The Probation Service: Pragmatism in Practice? 5. 'An Analytics of Social Work' 6. A Technical Identity? 7. Risk, Uncertainty and Blame in Contemporary Practice 8. Conclusion: Doing Justice to Social Work