New Directions in Social Work Practice
2nd Edition
Published on 23. November 2015
224 pages
978-0-85725-815-1 (ISBN)
Description
'Hatton's book is a welcome antidote to stagnation and moribund thinking in contemporary professional practice and readers will gain much from engaging with the concepts he sets out and the challenges he raises.'
Jonathan Parker, Series Editor
Since the first edition of Kieron Hatton's important book outlining many of the New Directions facing social work a significant number of changes and challenges have continued to have a huge impact on contemporary social work practice in the UK. From the second Laming report and the subsequent work of the Social Work Task Force, Social Work Reform Board and The College of Social Work, to the Reclaiming Social Work agenda and Munro Review, the context within which social work is practice has continued to change and this new edition unpicks the challenges, opportunities and threats facing the social workers of today.
This book re-establishes an important contribution to learning from which students, their service users and ultimately society should benefit.
Jonathan Parker, Series Editor
Since the first edition of Kieron Hatton's important book outlining many of the New Directions facing social work a significant number of changes and challenges have continued to have a huge impact on contemporary social work practice in the UK. From the second Laming report and the subsequent work of the Social Work Task Force, Social Work Reform Board and The College of Social Work, to the Reclaiming Social Work agenda and Munro Review, the context within which social work is practice has continued to change and this new edition unpicks the challenges, opportunities and threats facing the social workers of today.
This book re-establishes an important contribution to learning from which students, their service users and ultimately society should benefit.
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Series
Edition
Second Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Sage Publications Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
ISBN-13
978-0-85725-815-1 (9780857258151)
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New Directions in Social Work Practice
Book
12/2015
2nd Edition
Learning Matters Ltd
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Person
Kieron Hatton, PhD is a social work academic with interests in social/community work, youth inclusion and social pedagogy who has presented papers at national and international conferences and published widely around these topics. Publications include three books-New Directions in Social Work Practice (2008), Social Pedagogy in the UK: Theory and Practice (2013) and New Directions in Social Work Practice (2nd ed., 2015).
Content
Introduction
A Framework for Understanding Contemporary Social Work
Social work, Community Work and Social Change
Squaring the Circle- From the Individual to the Collective?
The Voluntary and Independent Sectors: Communitarianism, the 'Big Society' and the potential for social action
Involving, integrating or ignoring? Service users, carers and social work
Developing new forms of practice: Professionalism, partnerships and social pedagogy
International social work: European and international reflections on the challenges to social work in selected European countries
Conclusion: New parameters for social work
A Framework for Understanding Contemporary Social Work
Social work, Community Work and Social Change
Squaring the Circle- From the Individual to the Collective?
The Voluntary and Independent Sectors: Communitarianism, the 'Big Society' and the potential for social action
Involving, integrating or ignoring? Service users, carers and social work
Developing new forms of practice: Professionalism, partnerships and social pedagogy
International social work: European and international reflections on the challenges to social work in selected European countries
Conclusion: New parameters for social work
