'An excellent book that provides a good deal of valuable material to stimulate debate and to alert readers of the need to engage more critically with the wider world in which social work is located' - Professor Keith Popple, Professor of Social Work, London South Bank University. This exciting book draws together the key contemporary theories, theorists and perspectives used in social work and explains how they are applied in practice and critiqued by social workers. It provides: an outline of the contribution made by a key theorist, theory or perspective to social work; a selective bibliography of each thinker or approach; a glossary defining key traditions, with cross links to key theoristsand perspectives; a timeline of key publications; and, study questions at theend of each chapter. The book will be valuable for undergraduate, graduate students, post qualifying students and researchers in social work. INDICE: Foreword - Hans-Uwe Otto Preface - Bill Jordan Introduction - Mel Gray & Stephen Webb PART ONE: THEORISTS Habermas - Stan Houston Giddens - Harry Ferguson Bourdieu - Paul Michael Garrett Foucault - Alan Irving Butler - Brid Featherstone & Lorraine Green PART TWO: THEORISMS Feminist Social Work - Joan Orme Critical Social Work - Karen Healy Structural Social Work - Steven Hick& Kate Murray Multiculturalism - Purnima Sundar Neoliberalism - Sue Penna & Martin O'Brien Postmodernism - Barbara Fawcett PART THREE: PERSPECTIVES Social Network Analysis - Deirdre Kirke Ethnomethodology - Gerard deMontigny Ethnography - Jerry Floersch Discourse Analysis and Reflexive Practice - Sue White Evidence-Based Practice - Debbie Plath Ways of Knowing - Ian Shaw
- ISBN: 978-1-4129-4741-1
- Editorial: Sage
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 248
- Fecha Publicación: 01/11/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés