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Integrated Practice: Using Narratives to Develop Theories in Social Care
This book proposes integrated practice to bind together a tapestry of changes: the emergence of social care challenging traditional views of social work; the government’s modernising agenda that seeks to raise care standards; the new emphasis on regulation of care services, the rise of inter-disciplinarity as a strategy for delivering seamless services, and the recognition of learning and mentoring as tools for practice. Narrative examples from research, practice and education provide threads of ‘evidence’ that orient the reader to selected theoretical concepts. This book is intended for qualified social workers, skilled social care workers, line managers, practice teachers, mentors, assessors...
International Labour Mobility in Social Work
While there is evidence of individual, ad hoc, international movement of social workers at the education or employment stage over many years, there are growing indications that there are now systematic efforts to recruit staff from abroad to make up for a shortfall in nationally trained social workers in a number of ‘western’ countries. This is evident in the UK and this monograph draws on papers presented at a symposium in England which aimed to explore the experience of this phenomenon from the perspective of different stakeholders.
International Perspectives on Evidence-based Practice in Social Work
This book presents a worldwide overview of contemporary developments in evidence-based practice (EBP). Leading authorities in England, Scotland, Israel, South Africa, Australia, Hong Kong, Canada, Finland and the United States of America have prepared chapters describing the state-of-the art (and science!) of social work practice in their respective countries. ‘International Perspectives on Evidence-based Social Work’ illustrates how the diverse and international profession of social work is capable of becoming better unified through being organized by the integration of both scientific and humanistic perspectives within practice.
International Social Work and the Radical Tradition
At the beginning of the 21st century international social work is faced with a paradox. The spread of neo-liberal globalisation has created a situation in which social work is beginning to emerge and develop in many countries where previously it did not exist. Yet this growth of social work internationally is taking place at a time where there is a widespread acceptance that social work in many Western countries is in crisis, often due to the dominance of market-based approaches. This suggests that the time is ripe for a re-assessment of that tradition within social work which, more than any...