Book description

<P><EM>The Routledge Handbook of Critical Social Work</EM> brings together the world?s leading scholars in the field to provide a cutting-edge overview of classic and current research and future trends in the subject. </P> <P>Comprised of 48 chapters divided into six parts: </P> <UL> <P> <LI>Historical, social, and political influences </LI> <P></P> <P> <LI>Mapping the theoretical and conceptual terrain </LI> <P></P> <P> <LI>Methods of engagement and modes of analysis </LI> <P></P> <P> <LI>Critical contexts for practice and policy </LI> <P></P> <P> <LI>Professional education and socialisation </LI> <P></P> <P> <LI>Future challenges, directions, and transformations </LI> <P></P></UL> <P>it provides an authoritative guide to theory and method, and the primary debates of today in social work from a critical perspective. </P> <P>This handbook is a major reference work and the first book to comprehensively map the wide-ranging territory of critical social work. It does so by addressing its conceptual developments, its methodological advances, its value-based front-line practice and as an influence on the policy field. By offering a definitive survey of current academic knowledge as it relates to professional practice, it provides the first comprehensive, up-to-date, definitive work of reference while at the same time identifying emerging, innovative and cutting-edge areas.</P> <P></P>

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