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| Description |
Featuring contributions from key commentators including Lena Dominelli, Sarah Banks, Peter Beresford, Michael Flood and George Ritzer, this diverse text explores an array of concepts and themes that are vital to our understanding of the value base in social work. Each chapter contains a range of exercises and activities that are intended to encourage students to take a creative and active learning approach to defining and understanding values. Among the key themes examined in the book are the tensions between values such as social justice, anti-oppressive practice, compassion, empathy and the contemporary preoccupation with cost codes, performance management, the obsessive cult of managerialism and the allure from those with power in public life for the emerging 'free market'. Also included are chapters on:
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| Key Features |
The list of contributors includes several high-profile names including Lena Dominelli, Sarah Banks, Yasmin and George Ritzer. Due to the range of contributors it is also likely to appeal to an international audience.
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| Author Biography |
Nigel Horner is Deputy Head of School of Health and Social Care at the University of Lincoln, with particular interests in fictional literature and social work, the history of child welfare and the value of social work theory.
Jim Wild developed the ideas behind the values events of 2006 and 2008. He is course leader for the Diploma in Applied Studies in Men and Masculinities at Nottingham Trent University, UK.
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| Table of Contents |
1 Values, Ethics and Professionalisation: A Social Work History 2 The social work value base: human rights and social justice in talk and action 3 Globalisation Defined 4 Anti-racist strategy for individual and organisational change 5 Social Work and Social Value: Well-being, Choice and Public Service Reform 6 Service User Values For Social Work and Social Care 7 Community Intervention and Social Activism 8 Anti-Oppressive Practice as Contested Practice 9 Engaging Men: Strategies and dilemmas in violence prevention education among men 10 Social Work and Management |
