Michael (Hrsg.) Lavalette

Social Work in Extremis: Lessons for Social Work Internationally

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At the heart of both the international expansion of social work and the restructuring of social work in Britain are a number of key questions: What is social work? How relevant is its value base to practice? How can its values be operationalized? What distinguishes the social work profession from a 'mere' social work occupation? What is (or should be) the relationship between social work practice and the State? Who determines and controls what the service user needs are, how those needs are met, and which services are delivered? This book addresses these questions by looking at a number of case studies where local social work and welfare proj… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Ioakimidis, Vasilios (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-84742-718-2
EAN: 9781847427182
Produktnummer: 10568577
Verlag: Policy Pr
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Seitenangabe: 200 S.
Masse: H24.1 cm x B17.8 cm x D1.6 cm 494 g
Auflage: New
Gewicht: 494

Über den Autor

Michael Lavalette is Associate Professor of Social Work at Liverpool Hope University and national co-ordinator of the Social Work Action Network. He has written numerous books and articles about social work and social policy, including International Social Work and the Radical Tradition (ed with Iain Ferguson) and Globalisation, Global Justice and Social Work (ed with Elizabeth Whitmore and Iain Ferguson). Vasilios Ioakimidis is a lecturer in social work and social pedagogy at Liverpool Hope University and visiting lecturer at the University of Nicosia, Cyprus. Vasilios is a member of the steering committee of the Social Work Action Network. His writings and research focus on the contested and contradicted nature of International Social Work. He is the editor of Social Work for Social Justice the first radical social work book available in Greek. He has been invited to deliver presentations or guest lectures in the UK, Greece, Cyprus, Colombia, India, Lithuania, Jordan, Hong Kong, Italy and Belgium.