The Politics Of Social Work

Author : Fred W Powell
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2001-05-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0761964126

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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 : Shannon R. Lane,Suzanne Pritzker
Publisher : Springer
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319685885

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Political Social Work by Shannon R. Lane,Suzanne Pritzker Pdf

This social work book is the first of its kind, describing practical steps that social workers can take to shape and influence both policy and politics. It prepares social workers and social work students to impact political action and subsequent policy, with a detailed real-world framework for turning ideas into concrete goals and strategies for effecting change. Tracing the roots of social work in response to systemic social inequality, it clearly relates the tenets of social work to the challenges and opportunities of modern social change. The book identifies the core domains of political social work, including engaging individuals and communities in voting, influencing policy agendas, and seeking and holding elected office. Chapters elaborate on the necessary skills for political social work, featuring discussion, examples, and critical thinking exercises in such vital areas as: Power, empowerment, and conflict: engaging effectively with power in political settings. Getting on the agenda: assessing the political context and developing political strategy. Planning the political intervention: advocacy and electoral campaigns. Empowering voters Persuasive political communication. Budgeting and allocating resources. Evaluating political social work efforts. Making ethical decisions in political social work. Political Social Work is a potent reference for social work professionals, practitioners, and students seeking core political knowledge and skills to practically advance their work. For specialists and generalists alike, it solidifies political action as vital for the evolution of the field.

Author : Stephen Pimpare
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780231551892

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Politics for Social Workers by Stephen Pimpare Pdf

The social work profession calls on its members to strive for social justice. It asks aspiring and practicing social workers to advocate for political change and take part in political action on behalf of marginalized people and groups. Yet this macro goal is often left on the back burner as the day-to-day struggles of working directly with clients take precedence. And while most social workers have firsthand knowledge of how public policy neglects or outright harms society’s most vulnerable, too few have training in the political processes that created these policies. This book is a concise, accessible guide to help social workers understand how politics and policy making really work—and what they can do to help their clients and their communities. Helping readers develop sustainable strategies at the micro-, meso-, and macro-levels, this book is a hands-on manual to contemporary American politics, showing social workers and social work students how to engage in effective activism. Stephen Pimpare, a political scientist with extensive experience as a social work practitioner and instructor, offers informed, practical grounding in the mechanics of policy making and the tools that activists and outsiders can use to take on an entrenched system. He distills key research and insights from political science and related disciplines into a practical resource for social work students, instructors, and practitioners looking to deepen their policy knowledge and capacity to achieve change.

Author : Ray Lees
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Social action
ISBN : UOM:39015000640162

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Author : Joe Duffy,Jim Campbell,Carol Tosone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Social conflict
ISBN : 1138557307

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International Perspectives on Social Work and Political Conflict by Joe Duffy,Jim Campbell,Carol Tosone Pdf

International Perspectives on Social Work and Political Conflict provides an important basis for readers to recognise and understand the unique and specialist role that social workers have played and continue to play in international contexts of political conflict. Social workers make an important contribution in these difficult and sometimes dangerous situations across all continents. This book highlights the importance of social work in these very challenging contexts. The first part of this book includes four chapters that summarise the existing knowledge base. The second part focuses on a case study of Northern Ireland where, for the first time, a detailed examination of the social work role was completed which involved researching the views of social work practitioners, managers and educators. Part three then draws together international experts in the field who have written chapters on those regions where social workers have been dealing with long standing periods of political conflict. At a time when violent conflagrations are currently a feature of many countries and regions across the continents of the world, this book offers a critical view of the social work role in these contexts and should thus be considered essential reading for all social work academics, students and professionals working in conflict-affected societies.

Author : Chris Chapman,A.J. Withers
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442628861

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Violent History of Benevolence by Chris Chapman,A.J. Withers Pdf

A Violent History of Benevolence traces how normative histories of liberalism, progress, and social work enact and obscure systemic violences. Chris Chapman and A.J. Withers explore how normative social work history is structured in such a way that contemporary social workers can know many details about social work's violences, without ever imagining that they may also be complicit in these violences. Framings of social work history actively create present-day political and ethical irresponsibility, even among those who imagine themselves to be anti-oppressive, liberal, or radical. The authors document many histories usually left out of social work discourse, including communities of Black social workers (who, among other things, never removed children from their homes involuntarily), the role of early social workers in advancing eugenics and mass confinement, and the resonant emergence of colonial education, psychiatry, and the penitentiary in the same decade. Ultimately, A Violent History of Benevolence aims to invite contemporary social workers and others to reflect on the complex nature of contemporary social work, and specifically on the present-day structural violences that social work enacts in the name of benevolence.

Author : Joanne Warner
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447318422

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The Emotional Politics of Social Work and Child Protection by Joanne Warner Pdf

Social work and child protection systems have for several decades been subject to cycles of crisis and reform, with each crisis drawing intense media and political scrutiny. In this book, Joanne Warner argues that to understand the nature of these cycles, we have to pay attention to the importance of collective emotions such as anger, shame, and fear. To do so, she introduces the concept of emotional politics. Using a range of cases from the United Kingdom, the United States, the Netherlands, and New Zealand, Warner reveals that collective emotions are central to constructions of risk and blame--and that they are generated and reflected by official documents, politicians, and the media. She also suggests strategies for challenging emotional politics, including identifying models for a more politically engaged stance for the social work profession.

Author : Bob Pease,Anthea Vreugdenhil,Sonya Stanford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315399164

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Critical Ethics of Care in Social Work by Bob Pease,Anthea Vreugdenhil,Sonya Stanford Pdf

This book argues that the concept of care is a political and a moral concept. As such, it enables us to examine moral and political life through a radically different lens. The editors and contributors to the book argue that care has the potential to interrogate relationships of power and to be a tool for radical political analysis for an emerging critical social work that is concerned with human rights and social justice. The book brings a critical ethics of care into the realm of theory and practice in social work. Informed by critical theory, feminism, intersectionality and post-colonialism, the book interrogates the concept of care in a wide range of social work settings. It examines care in the context of social neglect, interdisciplinary perspectives, the responsibilisation agenda in social work and the ongoing debate about care and justice. It situates care in the settings of mental health, homelessness, elder care, child protection, asylum seekers and humanitarian aid. It further demonstrates what can be learnt about care from the post-colonial margins, Aboriginal societies, LGBTI communities and disability politics. It demonstrates ways of transforming the politics and practices of care through the work of feminist mothers, caring practices by men, meditations on love, rethinking self-care, extending care to the natural environment and the principles informing cross-species care. The book will be invaluable to social workers, human service practitioners and managers who are involved in the practice of delivering care, and it will assist them to challenge the punitive and hurtful strategies of neoliberal rationalisation. The critical theoretical focus of the book has significance beyond social work, including nursing, psychology, medicine, allied health and criminal justice.

Author : Hannele Forsberg,Teppo Kröger
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781847429001

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Social Work and Child Welfare Politics by Hannele Forsberg,Teppo Kröger Pdf

Drawing on contemporary research and debates from different Nordic countries, this book examines how social work and child welfare politics are produced and challenged as both global and local ideas and practices.

Author : Daniel J. Walkowitz
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0807847585

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Working with Class by Daniel J. Walkowitz Pdf

Polls tell us that most Americans_whether they earn $20,000 or $200,000 a year_think of themselves as middle class. As this phenomenon suggests, "middle class" is a category whose definition is not necessarily self-evident. In this book, historian Daniel

Author : Kristin Sonnenberg,Cinur Ghaderi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783658320607

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Social Work in Post-War and Political Conflict Areas by Kristin Sonnenberg,Cinur Ghaderi Pdf

The book offers unique access to theoretical approaches and practical examples of international social work in the context of war and conflicts. The reader gains knowledge about the competences and role of social work, which contributes to mitigating the effects of war and conflict. The book raises the question of how to connect international social work with local approaches and offers suggestions for a development of social work with respect to exchanging knowledge and experiences between the West and the East, the Global North and the Global South. It furthermore discusses the role of social work in reducing the problem of gender-based violence and in the methods of peacebuilding processes in post-war and post-conflict societies.

Author : Ferguson, Iain,Ioakimidis, Vasilios
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447322696

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Global social work in a political context by Ferguson, Iain,Ioakimidis, Vasilios Pdf

How is social work shaped by global issues and international problems and how should it address them? This book employs a radical perspective to examine international social work. Globalisation had opened up many issues for social work, including how to address global inequalities, the impact of global economic problems and trends towards neoliberalism. By examining the origins of modern social work, problematising its definition and addressing the care/control dichotomy the book reveals what we can learn from different approaches and projects across the globe. Case studies from the UK, the US, Canada, Spain, Latin America, Australia, Hungary and Greece bring the text to life and allow both students and practitioners to apply theory to practice.

Author : Pollock, Sarah,Parkinson, Kate
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447344711

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Social Work and Society by Pollock, Sarah,Parkinson, Kate Pdf

It is essential that social work students understand the lasting impact political decision making can have on service users, yet little guidance exists on this subject. This valuable book provides a comprehensive introduction to politics in social work, unifying the themes of political ideology and social construction across several areas of social work practice, including emerging areas of practice. The book: • Introduces the dominant political ideologies in the UK; • Examines the impact of these ideological perspectives on different demographic groups; • Explores emerging areas of growing political interest such as radicalisation; • Employs case studies and examples from practice to aid student understanding. Including helpful key points to guide reading at the beginning of each chapter, as well as exercises for seminars and further reading recommendations, this text will be an invaluable resource to all students in social work.

Author : Mel Gray,Stephen A. Webb
Publisher : Red Globe Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780230296787

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The New Politics of Social Work by Mel Gray,Stephen A. Webb Pdf

Fundamental to social work are the values of justice and equality. But it has long been felt that these values are being eroded under a system of capitalist power. Serving to reactivate and refresh social work's radical tradition to form a new political agenda, The New Politics of Social Work: • Brings together leading international authors to deliver a critical exploration of the impact capitalism has had on social work • Paves the way for students and practitioners of social work to take a more transformative, radical approach This is an important and authoritative book for both advanced level undergraduate and postgraduate students of Social Work.

Author : Jeffry H. Galper
Publisher : Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Social change
ISBN : UCAL:B4138132

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The Politics of Social Services by Jeffry H. Galper Pdf

A critical analysis of the political roles and impact of social services in the United States, assessing their influence on the values, structures, and human behaviors underlying the present social order.