Full Description
What is social work's contribution to humanity and society? Best-selling author Malcolm Payne offers a toolkit for social work practitioners and students to bring key issues about their practice and social role to life, drawing on case examples and research.
Starting from the principle that human beings are social beings, he showcases:
• innovative analysis of how social work's identity and diverse streams of thought inform social professions globally;
• social work's dual practice aims of developing human flourishing and social capital;
• community-near co-production, engaging agencies, communities and service users with practitioners from different professions to meet shared aims for social transformation;
• how populist politics and monetising economics corrodes deeply-held human and social values.
Malcolm Payne looks forward to social work practice and provision that puts people and social relationships first in meeting the challenges of twenty-first century caring and environmental crises.
Contents
Part 1: Why social work?
1. Social work: human and social
2. Social work's field of practice
Part 2: How social work works
3. Social work's practice actions
4. Social work's practice strategies
5. Social work's streams of thinking
6. Social work's agency contexts
7. Social work, profession and agency
8. Social work and co-production
Part 3: Social work under pressure
9. Social work, policy and politics
10. Social work, economics and choice
11. Views of social work
12. Social work's contribution in the future
