Understanding social work: history and context

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This essential book covers the history and evolution behind social work, helping students new to social work understand how the field has been shaped.

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Full title :Understanding social work : history and context / John Pierson.

Summary

This essential book covers the history and evolution behind social work, helping students new to social work understand how the field has been shaped.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2011.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Open University Press/McGraw-Hill
Place of Publication:Maidenhead, Berkshire
Language:eng
Publication Date:2011.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xiv, 250 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780335240289, 0335240283
oclc:on1058636441
LC Classification:HV245
Dewey Decimal:361.30941

UnderstandingSocial Work:History and Context; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART ONE In the Shadow of the Poor Law; 1 Forerunners of Social Work; 2 The Charity Organisation Society; 3 The Expanding World of Social Work: Settlements and Guilds of Help; 4 Social Work between the Wars; 5 Working with 'Mental Deficiency'; 6 The Welfare of Children; PART TWO The Road to Modernization; 7 Social Work At High Tide: From the Second World War to Single Social Services Department; 8 Radical Voices, Turbulent Times; 9 Commissioning, Competences and 'Social Care'

10 Social Work with Children and Young People11 From Poor Law to Personalization: Social Work with Adults; 12 Conclusion: Understanding Social Work History; Bibliography; Index