Social work, politics and society : : From radicalism to orthodoxy / / Kenneth McLaughlin.
This original and stimulating book examines contemporary issues in social work, particularly exploring the politicisation of the profession from the 1970s onwards. Detailing the wider social and political influences on the development of social work, the book argues that underlying much social theor...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-1995 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2008] ©2008 |
| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (192 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Understandings of and developments within social work
- Politicising social work
- ‘Depoliticising’ social work
- Agency, pathology and abuse
- The politics of risk and mental health
- The subject of stress
- From at risk to a risk: regulating social work
- Politics and social work
- References
- Index