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Social Work Ideals and Practice Realities

Social Work Ideals and Practice Realities

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Synopsis

Social work practice is becoming increasingly complex, with social workers struggling to hold onto their ideals and values in a pressurized and challenging social, political and organizational environment. This book provides an analytically coherent approach to the impact of macro, mezzo and micro factors upon practitioners' daily experiences. In taking a positive view of social work's potential and capacity to deliver beneficial services, detailed guidance is offered of cutting edge, creative practice with a variety of user groups.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 320
 Edition: 2004
 Publisher: Red Globe Press
Published: 05 Dec 2003
ISBN 10: 0333749766
ISBN 13: 9780333749760
Book Overview: BILL BADHAM Development Officer for active involvement with the National Youth Agency PETER BATES Consultant working for the National Development Team ROB CANTON Senior Lecturer in Community and Criminal Justice at De Montfort University MARIAN CHARLES Lecturer in Social Work in the Centre for Social Work, University of Nottingham PAM COOKE Director of The Ann Craft Trust until 2001, is now a freelance trainer and consultant ANN DAVIS Professor of Social Work in the School of Social Policy and Social Work, University of Birmingham TINA EADIE is Lecturer in Community Justice in the Centre for Social Work, University of Nottingham RACHAEL ELLIS Freelance trainer and consultant PAUL MICHAEL GARRETT Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Social Work, University of Nottingham OLIVE STEVENSON Emeritus Professor of Social Work Studies in the Centre for Social Work, University of Nottingham JANE WILTON Manager in child care social work in Walsall SSD

Media Reviews
'...a book I would strongly recommend to students for purchase, because it puts much else of what they must learn into a useful context for understanding.' - Mark Baldwin, Senior Lecturer in Social Work, University of Bath '...it has been well edited and is a serious attempt to grapple with some very complex ethical, political and practical issues with which practitioners in the UK are currently faced.' - Paul Bywaters, Professor of Social Work, Coventry University '[A] useful guide to struggling practioners...' - Ethics and Social Welfare
Author Bio
MARK LYMBERY is Lecturer in Social Work at the University of Nottingham. He has 18 years experience of working in local authority social services departments. He has researched and published in the areas of care management, social work education and social work in primary health care.

SANDRA BUTLER was Director of Social Work Studies in the Centre for Social Work, University of Nottingham until 2000.