Michael Oliver

Broschiertes Buch

Social Work with Disabled People

Beschreibung

This classic text has been core reading for students and professionals in the field of social work and disability for 20 years. Extensively revised and updated, the third edition explores social work's changing role in this area. The book examines the ways in which disabled people have increasingly been able to manage and develop their own services. It reconstructs social work practice in the light of these changes and stresses the importance of working in alliance with these services. Taken together, the revisions made will ensure this book remains an essential text for social work students and practitioners who wish to work positively and appropriately with disabled people in the 21st century.

Table of contents:
Introduction: Setting the Scene
Social Work and Disability: Old and New Directions
Thinking about Disability
The Causes of Impairment and the Creation of Disability
Disability in the Family
Living with Disabilities
The Legal and Social Context of Disability
Conclusions: Some Professional and Organisational Aspects of Social Work with Disabled People
Bibliography
Index

Autor

MICHAEL OLIVER formerly Professor of Disability Studies, University of Greenwich before recently retiring. He has written extensively in the area of disability, including ‘Understanding Disability: From Theory to Practice’ and’ Disability Politics: Understanding Our Past, Changing Our Future’ which he co-wrote with Jane Campbell. He is Chair of the Research Advisory Group of the British Council of Disabled People, Executive Editor of ‘Disability and Society’, a member of the Editorial Boards of ‘Australian Disability Review’ and the ‘International Journal of Inclusive Education’ and a Non-Executive Director of North Kent Healthcare Trust.

BOB SAPEY is Lecturer in Applied Social Science at Lancaster University, where he teaches social work methods, the sociology of welfare organizations and mental health. His main research interests are disability and technology, especially as they relate to social work practice, and he has worked with disabled people as a social worker since 1975.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
• 3rd edition
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781403918383
• ISBN-10: 1403918384
• Artikelnr.: 21255858