Postmodern Social Work

Author : Ken Moffatt
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780231549394

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Postmodern Social Work by Ken Moffatt Pdf

How should social workers adapt to a time of widespread instability and uncertainty? How can social work practice account for the ever-increasing infiltration of technology and media images into our daily lives and mental states? In this book, Ken Moffatt turns to postmodern philosophy’s grappling with late capitalism and the omnipresence of technology in order to develop a new approach to reflective social work practice and critical pedagogy. Postmodern Social Work attempts to reconcile postmodern thinkers with the realities of teaching social work to diverse student populations in a precarious era. Moffatt advocates an ideal of reflective practice that allows social workers to combine direct experience, social welfare, and social justice. Through a series of interlocking essays focused on the theoretical underpinnings of reflective practice in the context of social work education, he explores the implications of postmodern theory for social work practice. Drawing on thinkers such as Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, Julia Kristeva, Gilles Deleuze, and Félix Guattari, Moffatt lays out a path forward for reflective social work, providing new ways of thinking that collapse old categories and integrate direct practice with community engagement and social analysis. Postmodern Social Work offers an approach to practice and teaching that considers the shifting landscape of social change while remaining true to social work’s primary concerns of inclusion and justice.

Author : Jan Fook,Bob Pease
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-08
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781136849404

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Transforming Social Work Practice by Jan Fook,Bob Pease Pdf

Transforming Social Work Practice shows that postmodern theory offers new strategies for social workers concerned with political action and social justice. It explores ways of developing practice frameworks, paradigms and principles which take advantage of the perspectives offered by postmodern theory without totally abandoning the values of modernity and the Enlightenment project of human emancipation. Case studies demonstrate how these perspectives can be applied to practice.

Author : Malcolm Payne,Gurid Aga Askeland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317127055

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Globalization and International Social Work by Malcolm Payne,Gurid Aga Askeland Pdf

Globalization challenges social work with constant social change, making a social worker's job and the task of social work education more complex and uncertain. Post-modern thinking suggests that social workers must learn to cope with complexity in ways that are in tension with the increasingly managerialist organization of the social services. The authors explore and question the concepts of 'postmodern', 'international' and 'global' in light of growing interest in international social work in the early 21st century. Emphasizing the importance of critical reflection, they argue that educational colonization can be challenged and effective anti-discriminatory and pro-equality practice and education promoted. Each chapter provides direct examples of how students and academics can apply these ideas in practice and in their learning, and how they can respond to and influence the challenges and changes that are taking place. The authors also examine educational and practice issues arising from attempts to incorporate international understanding into national practice and education systems. The book is designed to be stimulating to academics interested in international social work while remaining accessible to practitioners and students without international experience.

Author : Barbara Fawcett,Brid Featherstone,Jan Fook,Amy Rossiter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2005-08-05
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781134646913

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Practice and Research in Social Work by Barbara Fawcett,Brid Featherstone,Jan Fook,Amy Rossiter Pdf

Appraises key issues in the contested fields of postmodernism and feminism, focusing on applications in relation to practice, research and education in social work.

Author : Jean A Pardeck,John W Murphy,Roland Meinert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781136380969

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Postmodernism, Religion, and the Future of Social Work by Jean A Pardeck,John W Murphy,Roland Meinert Pdf

Postmodernism, Religion, and the Future of Social Work discusses the benefits and disadvantages of the postmodern philosophy as a foundation for social work and human service practice. Social work students and practitioners will learn about the developments that have shaped postmodern thinking as they pertain to society in general, as well as to the profession of social work. By exploring this increasingly popular philosophy, Postmodernism, Religion, and the Future of Social Work provides you with methods and theories that help you evalute contemporary problems more effectively, resulting in better services for your clients. Challenging traditional social work practices, Postmodernism, Religion, and the Future of Social Work examines postmodernism in terms of a world view that is emerging along indeterminate and ambiguous lines. With the goal of helping you provide more helpful and relevant services to your clients, Postmodernism, Religion, and the Future of Social Work discusses many themes related to postmodernism, including: understanding how principles of postmodernism are characterized by ongoing change, indeterminacy, and relativism reviewing the historical movement of a postmodern perspective and its present implications on social work practice supporting the strengths perspective through a postmodernist approach discussing some unintended and potentially negative consequences of postmodernism that arise from uncritically adopting postmodernistic principles analyzing the nature of social work and social welfare in Britain and the Western World to gain insight into how social theory is associated with postmodernity, postmodernization, and post-Fordism exploring the postmodernistic relationship between institutionalized religions and social services provided by religious auspices Although postmodernism offers a new and different way of understanding social problems and of structuring social work practice, this text urges you to be critical in the evaluation of its aspects and outlines some possibly negative outcomes in certain situations. In evaluating postmodernism and its relevance to social services and social problems, Postmodernism, Religion, and the Future of Social Work offers theories and research into methods that go beyond traditional practices to assist you in providing effective and relevant services for your clients.

Author : Gord Bruyere (Amawaajibitang),Michael Anthony Hart (Kaskitémahikan),Raven Sinclair (Ótiskewápíwskew)
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-06T00:00:00Z
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781773633169

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Wicihitowin by Gord Bruyere (Amawaajibitang),Michael Anthony Hart (Kaskitémahikan),Raven Sinclair (Ótiskewápíwskew) Pdf

Wícihitowin is the first Canadian social work book written by First Nations, Inuit and Métis authors who are educators at schools of social work across Canada. The book begins by presenting foundational theoretical perspectives that develop an understanding of the history of colonization and theories of decolonization and Indigenist social work. It goes on to explore issues and aspects of social work practice with Indigenous people to assist educators, researchers, students and practitioners to create effective and respectful approaches to social work with diverse populations. Traditional Indigenous knowledge that challenges and transforms the basis of social work with Indigenous and other peoples comprises a third section of the book. Wícihitowin concludes with an eye to the future, which the authors hope will continue to promote the innovations and creativity presented in this groundbreaking work.

Author : Fred W Powell
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2001-05-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0761964126

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The Politics of Social Work by Fred W Powell Pdf

The Politics of Social Work provides a major contribution to debates on the politics of social work, at the beginning of the 21st Century. It locates social work within wider political and theoretical debates and deals with important issues currently facing social workers and the organisations in which they work. By setting the current crisis of identity social workers are experiencing in international context, Fred Powell analyses the choices facing social work in postmodern society. Fred Powell explores in this text contemporary and historical paradigms of social work from its Victorian origins to the development of reformist practice in the welfare state to radical social work, responses to social exclusion, the rennaissance of civil society, multiculturalism, feminism and anti-oppressive practice. In conclusion the he examines the options facing social work in the 21st century and argues for a civic model of social work based on the pursuit of social justice in an inclusive society.

Author : Jean-François Lyotard
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0816611734

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The Postmodern Condition by Jean-François Lyotard Pdf

In this book it explores science and technology, makes connections between these epistemic, cultural, and political trends, and develops profound insights into the nature of our postmodernity.

Author : Jackie Stokes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1550772694

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Social Work Practice in Canada by Jackie Stokes Pdf

Author : Jan Fook
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781446258477

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Social Work by Jan Fook Pdf

Social work is a human profession founded on social justice. It is difficult however to negotiate this in the constantly-changing context of the twenty first century. Now in its' second edition, this book considers the critical tradition of social work and updates it with postmodern thinking. Jan Fook draws on critical reflection to help social workers deliver flexible, responsible and responsive practice and to celebrate the ageless ideals of the profession. Key ideas covered in the text include: - Postmodernism - Critical theories - Critical reflection - Contextuality The author draws on her own experiences, to relate theoretical ideas to real life. Summaries, exercises and further reading are also included in each chapter. The book will be essential reading for all undergraduate students of social work. It will also be a valuable resource for postgraduate students and qualified professionals, who want to revisit the critical tradition of social work.

Author : George Ritzer
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:49015002591155

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Postmodern Social Theory by George Ritzer Pdf

Ritzer's long-awaited text in Postmodern Social Theory is a readable & coherent introduction to the fundamental ideas & most important thinkers in postmodern social theory.

Author : Nick Coady, PhD,Peter Lehmann, PhD, LCSW
Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2007-10-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0826110932

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Theoretical Perspectives for Direct Social Work Practice by Nick Coady, PhD,Peter Lehmann, PhD, LCSW Pdf

Praise for the first edition "Finally, a social work practice text that makes a difference! This is the book that you have wished for but could never find. Although similar to texts that cover a range of practice theories and approaches to clinical practice, this book clearly has a social work frame of reference and a social work identity." --Gayla Rogers, Dean of the Faculty of Social Work, University of Calgary The major focus of this second edition is the same; to provide an overview of theories, models, and therapies for direct social work practice, including systems theory, attachment theory, cognitive-behavioral theory, narrative therapy, solution-focused therapy, the crisis intervention model, and many more. However, this popular textbook goes beyond a mere survey of such theories. It also provides a framework for integrating the use of each theory with central social work principles and values, as well as with the artistic elements of practice. This second edition has been fully updated and revised to include: A new chapter on Relational Theory, and newly-rewritten chapters by new authors on Cognitive-Behavioral Theory, Existential Theory, and Wraparound Services New critique of the Empirically Supported Treatment (EST) movement Updated information on the movement toward eclecticism in counseling and psychotherapy A refined conceptualization of the editors' generalist-eclectic approach

Author : Adrienne S. Chambon,Allan Irving
Publisher : Canadian Scholars Press
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1551300516

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Essays on Postmodernism and Social Work by Adrienne S. Chambon,Allan Irving Pdf

Author : Barbara Fawcett
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0415195128

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Practice and Research in Social Work by Barbara Fawcett Pdf

Although postmodernist theory has been related to and explored in sociology and social policy, this book is amongst the first to apply the theories to social work, and relate them to current debates. Contributors come from the UK, Australia, South Africa and Canada and many have professional experience as social workers. They appraise the key issues in the contested field of postmodernism and feminism and focus on their applications to practice, research and education in social work.

Author : Graham, Mekada
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2007-06-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781861348456

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Black Issues in Social Work and Social Care by Graham, Mekada Pdf

Over several decades, anti-oppressive practice and anti-discriminatory perspectives have become an integral part of social work. Responding to an urgent need for an up-to-date text that addresses recent developments, this book charts the impact of social changes and new literature shaping social work theory and practice with black and minority individuals, families and communities. It builds upon popular texts addressing anti-discriminatory frameworks but focuses specifically upon black perspectives in social work, taking into account current issues and concerns. Written specifically for a US and UK market, the book provides an excellent introductory text to social work with black and minority ethnic communities for students, lecturers, practice teachers/assessors who are engaged in examining anti-discriminatory practice frameworks and black perspectives in academic settings and practice learning. It will support curriculum-based learning through its focus on anti-discriminatory practice in a climate that appears less sympathetic to the multicultural nature of British society.