Practising Social Work Sociologically: A Theoretical approach for New Times - Softcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Dr Priscilla Dunk-West is a Professor of Social Work at Victoria University, Australia.

Professor Fiona Verity is Professor of Social Work and Social Care in the College of Health and Human Sciences, Swansea University, Wales, UK.

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Social Work has a wonderful history of engagement with creative ideas and imagination. We need more of this now. Inequality, poverty, lack of access to employment and affordable housing, and a tightening welfare system test conventional social work approaches. The speed and scale of the challenges we face demand we come back to these approaches with urgency and enthusiasm.

Practising Social Work Sociologically presents an innovative, theoretically based approach that helps students, practitioners and researchers alike orientate their view and sensibilities in a rapidly changing modern world. By bringing sociological social work perspectives to contemporary practice, it draws on concepts from a range of disciplines in recognition that we are collective thinkers and actors and that our ideas are shaped by what we read and build upon.