Full Description
While social work theory tends to emphasise helping individuals and challenging social injustice, the reality of practice is characterised by challenge and conflict. This text offers a new concept of social work that explains the nature of these conflicts and moves beyond them, with an inspiring and practical vision of what social work is and should be.
Placing rights at the heart of practice, this introduction to social work will be useful to practitioners and students with a substantive contribution to the theoretical literature that emphasises the role of social work when rights may be in conflict, enabling students and workers to become more confident in dealing with the uncomfortable realities of practice.
Contents
Introduction
Part 1: An Introduction to Rights Based Social Work
1. The Enlightenment, Social Work and Progress
2. Freedom, rights, equality, solidarity and social work
3. Needs, Rights and Social Work
Part 2: Core Intellectual Traditions for a Rights Based Social Work
4. Humanist Social Work
5. The Social Model
Part 3: How to Practice Rights Based Social Work
6. Assessment as Theory Development
7. Good assessment: Formulation and Resolution
8. Assessing Change
9. Good Practice in Direct Work: Purposeful Dialogue
10. Purposeful Dialogue and Good Authority
11. Purposeful Dialogue and Helping People
12. Creating a Collaborative Plan
13. Final Thoughts and Future Directions
