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Social Work: Theory and Practice for Changing Profession

ISBN: 978-0-7456-2382-5
Hardcover
320 pages
February 2004, Polity
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  • explores the dilemmas and tensions that social workers are compelled to resolve in their daily work;
  • draws on a broad range of theories, to outline the knowledge, skills and values that enable practitioners to respond more effectively to the demands made of them;
  • examines the impact of neo-liberalism, corporate management and the mixed economy of welfare on social work practice;
  • situates local practice within a globalising world.

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