New Directions in Social Work Practice

2. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-85725-813-7
Verlag: Learning Matters

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 395 g

Reihe: Transforming Social Work Practice Series

‘Hatton’s book is a welcome antidote to stagnation and moribund thinking in contemporary professional practice and readers will gain much from engaging with the concepts he sets out and the challenges he raises.’

Jonathan Parker, Series Editor



Since the first edition of Kieron Hatton’s important book outlining many of the New Directions facing social work a significant number of changes and challenges have continued to have a huge impact on contemporary social work practice in the UK. From the second Laming report and the subsequent work of the Social Work Task Force, Social Work Reform Board and The College of Social Work, to the Reclaiming Social Work agenda and Munro Review, the context within which social work is practice has continued to change and this new edition unpicks the challenges, opportunities and threats facing the social workers of today.



This book re-establishes an important contribution to learning from which students, their service users and ultimately society should benefit.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hatton, Kieron

Hatton, Kieron, Jr.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik, Theorie und Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
A Framework for Understanding Contemporary Social Work
Social work, Community Work and Social Change
Squaring the Circle- From the Individual to the Collective?
The Voluntary and Independent Sectors: Communitarianism, the ‘Big Society’ and the potential for social action
Involving, integrating or ignoring? Service users, carers and social work
Developing new forms of practice: Professionalism, partnerships and social pedagogy
International social work: European and international reflections on the challenges to social work in selected European countries
Conclusion: New parameters for social work

Über Autor(innen)

Hatton, Kieron, Jr.
Kieron Hatton, PhD is a social work academic with interests in social/community work, youth inclusion and social pedagogy who has presented papers at national and international conferences and published widely around these topics. Publications include three books—New Directions in Social Work Practice (2008), Social Pedagogy in the UK: Theory and Practice (2013) and New Directions in Social Work Practice (2nd ed., 2015).

Kieron is Head of the Centre for Social Work Education at the University of Portsmouth. He teaches Community Work, Social Policy, European/International Social Work, research methodology, work with Travellers/Gypsies/Roma at undergraduate and post-graduate levels, and is the Course Leader for European programmes. He is the co-chair of the Hants/IOW Learning Resource Centre Network and has presented papers at a wide range of international conferences.