Social Work - Adams, Robert
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The second edition of this best-selling text has been thoroughly revised and updated to ensure that it continues to provide a clear, comprehensive and academically rigorous survey of social work practice and theory. New chapters covering the changing nature of social work and advocacy and empowerment approaches have been included, and the editors have added a new conclusion in which they reflect on the past, present and future of social work. All of the chapters have been revised to cover the most recent debates and developments in research and practice.
Table of contents:
Introduction;…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
The second edition of this best-selling text has been thoroughly revised and updated to ensure that it continues to provide a clear, comprehensive and academically rigorous survey of social work practice and theory. New chapters covering the changing nature of social work and advocacy and empowerment approaches have been included, and the editors have added a new conclusion in which they reflect on the past, present and future of social work. All of the chapters have been revised to cover the most recent debates and developments in research and practice.

Table of contents:
Introduction; ‘R.Adams, L.Dominelli & M.Payne’

PART 1 SOCIAL WORK IN CONTEXT
Anti-Oppressive Practice in Context; ‘L. Dominelli’
Changing Nature of Social Work; ‘V.Cree’
Values, Ethics and Social Work; ‘S. Shardlow’
Social Work and Society; ‘C. Jones’
Social Policy and Social Work; ‘C. Walker & A. Walker’
Social Work and the Law; ‘S. Braye & M. Preston-Shoot’
Social Work and Organisations; ‘A. Mullender & S. Perrott’
Social Work Through the Life Course; ‘L. Robinson’
Personal and Professional Development; ‘J. Lishman’
Research and Development in Social Work; ‘A. Everitt’

PART 2 THEORIES FOR PRACTICE IN SOCIAL WORK
Social Work Theories and Reflective Practice; ‘M. Payne’
Counselling; ‘H. Cosis Brown’
Groupwork; ‘D. Ward’
Community Work; ‘M. Mayo’
Psychosocial Work; ‘D. Howe’
Cognitive-Behavioural Practice; ’K. Cigno’
Task-Centred Work; ‘M.Doel’
Advocacy; ‘M.Leadbetter’
Radical Social Work; ‘M. Langan’
Feminist Social Work; ‘J. Orme’
Anti-Oppressive Practice; ‘B. Burke & P. Harrison’
Advocacy and Empowerment; ‘M. Leadbetter’
Postmodernism and Discourse Approaches to Social Work; ‘N.Parton & W. Marshall’

PART 3 SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE
Social Work Processes; ‘R. Adams’
Social Work with Children and Families; ‘L. Waterhouse & J. McGhee’
Social Work with Adults; ‘N. Thompson’
Social Work with Offenders; ‘D. Smith’
Concluding Comment: Past, Present and Future of Social Work; ‘R. Adams, L. Dominelli, M. Payne’
Bibliography
Author Index
Subject Index
Autorenporträt
ROBERT ADAMS is Professor of Human Services Development at the University of Lincolnshire and Humberside, Hull, and Visiting Professor to the School of Health, University of Teesside. He has worked in social work and criminal justice settings and is the author of a number of books, including ‘Social Work and Empowerment’ and ‘Quality Social Work’.

LENA DOMINELLI is Professor of Social and Community Development and Director of the Centre for International Social and Community Development in the Department of Social Work Studies at the University of Southampton. She is also the President of the International Association of Schools of Social Work. She has worked as a social worker, probation officer and community worker and has written 18 books, including ‘Anti-Racist Social Work’ (second edition) and ‘Sociology for Social Work’.

MALCOLM PAYNE is Professor of Applied Community Studies at Manchester Metropolitan University, having previously worked in probation, social services and the national and local voluntary sector. He is the author of the best-selling ‘Modern Social Work Theory’ (second edition) and his most recent book is ‘Teamwork in Multiprofessional Care’.