Social work and social exclusion the idea of practice /

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Main Author: Sheppard, Michael
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2006.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Social exclusion and social work
  • Social work and social exclusion
  • The nature of social work
  • Knowledge and values, postmodernism and social work
  • Need
  • Authority and choice
  • Empowerment
  • Maintenance, social functioning and coping
  • Interpretivism, reflection and social work as art
  • Social work, science and technical instrumentalism
  • Judgement and decision making : practical reasoning, process knowledge and critical thinking
  • Social work intervention and human nature
  • Conclusion : the discipline of social work.