Doing Critical Social Work: Transformative Practices for Social Justice

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An undergraduate text showing how critical social work theory can be put into practice in a range of contexts from mental health to child and family services and with diverse population groups.

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Title Statements

Full title :Doing Critical Social Work : Transformative Practices for Social Justice.

Summary

An undergraduate text showing how critical social work theory can be put into practice in a range of contexts from mental health to child and family services and with diverse population groups.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2016.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Allen & Unwin
Place of Publication:Sydney
Language:eng
Publication Date:2016.

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Description based upon print version of record.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (385 p.)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781952534072, 1952534070, 9781000249262, 1000249263
oclc:on1157085975
LC Classification:HM671
Dewey Decimal:303.3/72

Cover -- Title page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements of traditional land owners -- Foreword -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements of contributors -- Part I: Addressing the tensions in critical social work -- 1 Doing critical social work in the neoliberal context: working on the contradictions -- 2 Critical reflection and critical social work -- 3 Towards critical social work supervision -- 4 Making sense of different theoretically informed approaches in doing critical social work -- Part II: Critical practices in confronting privilege and promoting social justice

5: Towards a critical human rights-based approach to social work practice -- 6 Interrogating privilege and complicity in the oppression of others -- 7 Social work, class and the structural violence of poverty -- Part III: Developing critical practices within the organisational context of social work -- 8 Beyond the dominant approach to mental health practice -- 9 Embedding critical social work in child protection practice -- 10 Critical social work in Centrelink: an oxymoron or an opportunity? -- 11 Building relationships and effecting change: critical social work practice in prison settings

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