Social Work Theories and Methods - Softcover

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Mel Gray is Professor of Social Work and Research Professor in the Research Institute for Social Inclusion and Wellbeing, University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. She has published extensively on social work and social development. Recent books include Indigenous Social Work around the World (with Coates & Yellow Bird, Ashgate 2008), Evidence-based Social Work (with Plath & Webb, Routledge 2009), Ethics and Value Perspectives in Social Work (with Webb, Palgrave 2010), International; Social Work - 4 vols (with Webb, Sage 2010), Environmental Social Work (with Coates & Hetherington, Routledge 2012), Decolonizing Social Work (with Coates, Hetherington, & Yellow Bird, Ashgate 2012), Social Work Theories and Methods (2nd ed., Sage, 2012 with Webb), and New Politics of Critical Social Work (with Webb, 2010 Palgrave).

Stephen Webb is Professor of Human Sciences and Director of the Research Institute for Social Inclusion and Wellbeing at the University of Newcastle in New South Wales, Australia. His research focuses on theoretical approaches to social work drawing on contemporary social theory, evidence-based practice and social work ethics and values. He is author of several books including most recently Social Work in a Risk Society (Palgrave 2006) and Evidence-based Social Work (with Gray & Plath, Routledge 2009). He is co-editor (with Gray) of Sage′s four-volume International Social Work (2009), which includes a selection of seminal social work texts, and Ethics and Value Perspectives in Social Work (with Gray, Palgrave 2009). Most recently he has completed the Second Edition of Social Work Theories and Methods (with Gray, Sage) and New Politics of Critical Social Work (with Gray, Palgrave).

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The second edition of a text mapping directly onto a core module of the undergraduate social work degree: theories and methods. Chapters are written by a range of contributors from universities including Lancaster, Birmingham, Nottingham, York, UCLAN, UEA, Manchester and Glasgow.