Kenneth Mclaughlin

Social work, politics and society

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Produktbeschreibung

This original and stimulating book examines contemporary issues in social work, particularly exploring the politicisation of the profession from the 1970s onwards.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Policy Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9781847420459
• ISBN-10: 1847420451
• Artikelnr.: 24995382

Autorenporträt

Kenneth McLaughlin is senior lecturer in social work at Manchester Metropolitan University. He has extensive experience in social care as a support worker for homeless families and as a care manager/approved social worker in a statutory mental health team.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Understandings of and developments within social work
Politicising social work
'Depoliticising' social work
Agency, pathology and abuse
The politics of risk and mental health
The subject of stress
From at risk to a risk: regulating social work
Politics and social work.