Transforming Social Work Practice: Postmodern Critical Perspectives by Bob Pease

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Offers new strategies for social workers concerned with political action and social justice. It explores ways of developing practice frameworks, paradigms and principles which take adavantage of the perspectives offered by postmodern theory.

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Showing that postmodern theory offers new strategies for social workers concerned with political action and social justice, this text explores ways of developing practice frameworks, paradigms and principles which take advantage of the perspectives offered by postmodern theory without totally abandoning the values of modernity and the Enlightenment project of human emancipation. Case studies demonstrate how these perspectives can be applied to practice. In the context of ongoing cuts to government spending and the demise of the welfare state, this collection shows how social workers can move from conventional understandings of practice to paradigms and models with are more relevant to today's world.

Author Biography

Bob Pease is Senior Lecturer in Social Science and Social Work at RMIT, Melbourne and author of Men and Sexual Politics and Recreating Men. Jan Fook is Professor of Social Work at Deakin University, Australia and author of Radical Casework and editor of The Reflective Researcher.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1. Postmodern Critical Theory and Emancipatory Social Work Practice Bob Pease and Jan Fook; Part One 2. Social Work and Its Search for Meaning: Theories, Narratives and Practices Peter Camilleri; 3. The Contemporary Organization of Social Work Gary Hough; Part Two 4. Social Work Ethics: Embracing Diversity? Linda Briskman and Carolyn Noble; 5. Challenging Victimisation in Practice with Young Women Karen Crinall; 6. Offending Mothers: Theorising in a Feminist Minefield Lee Fitzroy; 7. Deconstructing Masculinity: Constructing Emancipatory Practice with Men Bob Pease; Part Three 8. Representing Acitivist Practice Karen Healy; 9. Community Development and a Postmodernism of Resistance Mary Lane; 10. Empowerment: The Modern Social Work Concept 'Par Excellence' Stephen Parker, Jan Fook and Bob Pease; Part Four 11. Postmodernism and the Teaching and Practice of Interpersonal Skills Helen Jessup and Steve Rogerson; 12. Competing Paradigms in Mental Health Education and Practice Lister Bainbridge; 13. Critical Reflectivity in Education and Practice Jan Fook; Part Five 14. Postmodernism, Critical Theory and Social Work Jim Ife; 15.Emancipatory Social Work for a Postmodern Age Jan Fook and Bob Pease.

Details ISBN0415216478 Short Title TRANSFORMING SOCIAL WORK PRAC Language English ISBN-10 0415216478 ISBN-13 9780415216470 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 361.32 Year 1999 Imprint Routledge Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Author Jan Fook Edition 1st Edited by Jan Fook Pages 240 Illustrations black & white illustrations Affiliation Deakin University, Australia DOI 10.1604/9780415216470 UK Release Date 1999-04-22 AU Release Date 1999-04-22 NZ Release Date 1999-04-22 Subtitle Postmodern Critical Perspectives Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd Publication Date 1999-04-22 Alternative 9780415216463 Audience Undergraduate We've got this

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