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Transforming Social Work Practice : Postmodern Critical Perspectives.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Publisher: Sydney : Allen & Unwin, 1999Copyright date: ©1999Description: 1 online resource (247 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781741765328
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 361.3/2
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Contents:
Cover -- Part title -- Title page -- Foreword -- Contents -- Foreword -- Contributors -- 1 Postmodern critical theory and emancipatory social work practice -- Part I Deconstructing the professional and organisational context of social work -- 2 Social work and its search for meaning: Theories, narratives and practices -- 3 The organisation of social work in the customer culture -- Part II Dealing with diversity and difference -- 4 Social work ethics: Embracing diversity? -- 5 Challenging victimisation in practice with young women -- 6 Offending mothers: Theorising in a feminist minefield -- 7 Deconstructing masculinity-reconstructing men -- Part III Rethinking critical practice -- 8 Power and activist social work -- 9 Community development and a postmodern of resistance -- 10 Empowerment: The modern social work concept par excellence -- Part IV Reconstructing social work education -- 11 Postmodernism and the teaching and practice of interpersonal skills -- 12 Competing paradigms in mental health practice and education -- 13 Critical reflectivity in education and practice -- Part V Critically interrogating the postmodern -- 14 Postmodernism, critical theory and social work -- 15 Emancipatory social work for a postmodern age -- Index.
Summary: Explores how postmodern theory can be used in social work practice.
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Cover -- Part title -- Title page -- Foreword -- Contents -- Foreword -- Contributors -- 1 Postmodern critical theory and emancipatory social work practice -- Part I Deconstructing the professional and organisational context of social work -- 2 Social work and its search for meaning: Theories, narratives and practices -- 3 The organisation of social work in the customer culture -- Part II Dealing with diversity and difference -- 4 Social work ethics: Embracing diversity? -- 5 Challenging victimisation in practice with young women -- 6 Offending mothers: Theorising in a feminist minefield -- 7 Deconstructing masculinity-reconstructing men -- Part III Rethinking critical practice -- 8 Power and activist social work -- 9 Community development and a postmodern of resistance -- 10 Empowerment: The modern social work concept par excellence -- Part IV Reconstructing social work education -- 11 Postmodernism and the teaching and practice of interpersonal skills -- 12 Competing paradigms in mental health practice and education -- 13 Critical reflectivity in education and practice -- Part V Critically interrogating the postmodern -- 14 Postmodernism, critical theory and social work -- 15 Emancipatory social work for a postmodern age -- Index.

Explores how postmodern theory can be used in social work practice.

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