What is Social Work? - Contexts and Perspectives Horner NigelPaperback / softback
What is Social Work? - Contexts and Perspectives Horner NigelPaperback / softback Following the lives of four fictional time-travelling characters, it examines the changing functions of social work…
Specifikacia What is Social Work? - Contexts and Perspectives Horner NigelPaperback / softback
What is Social Work? - Contexts and Perspectives Horner NigelPaperback / softback
Following the lives of four fictional time-travelling characters, it examines the changing functions of social work by unpicking the changing social and political responses to their needs. There are key chapters on working with different service user groups including vulnerable adults, children and families and those with learning difficulties or having to live with mental distress. From its historical roots to the modern and fast-moving profession it has become, this book looks in detail at how social work has evolved as a profession, what social work looks like in recent years and where it is heading.
There are also chapters that cover social work as a profession, including current services, practices, themes and debates.