Challenging social work : the institutional context of practice /

• McDonald, Catherine, 1955-

• Social service
• Social workers

• Palgrave Macmillan,

• 1403935459 (pbk.) :
• 9781403935458 (pbk.)

• 18.99

• Includes bibliography: p. 215-235 and index.
• Acknowledgements - PART ONE - Preface to Part One - The Professional Project in the Context of Change - Modernity, Social Work and the Welfare State - Challenging Social Work: The Economics of Change - Challenging Social Work: The Politics of Change - Challenging Social Work: The Ideas of Change - Reconstructing Practitioners - Reconstructing Service Users - PART TWO - Preface to Part Two - Entrepreneurial Social Work - Evidence-Based Practice - Critical Practice - Global Social Work - Thinking Our Way Forward - Bibliography

• Palliative care social work and service users making life possible
• Independent successes implementing direct payments
• Buying independence using direct payments to integrate health and social services
• Guidance on good practice a supplement to the DPIs overview guidance to drug action teams on developing local drugs prevention strategies
• Community care practice and the law
• Critical learning for social work students
• Practice and research in social work postmodern feminist perspectives
• Evidence based practice in social work
• New directions in social work practice
• Social work and direct payments
• Social work practices contemporary perspectives on change
• Older people their support and care
• origins of social work continuity and change
• Counselling skills in social work practice
• Social work with young people
• Social work voices from the inside
• task centred book
• Alcohol and the public health a study by a working party of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine of the Royal Colleges of Physicians on the prevention of harm related to the use of alcohol and other drugs
• art of assessment
• Social issues for carers towards positive practice
• Social work with older people context policy and practice
• Social work making a difference
• Social work with older people
• Understanding community care a guide for social workers
• Social work a companion to learning
• Binge Britain alcohol and the national response
• Communication and interpersonal skills in social work
• Child welfare and social policy an essential reader
• Just law
• Organizing and organizations an introduction
• Helping families with troubled children a preventive approach
• Equal opportunities and social policy issues of gender race and disability
• Social work process and practice approaches knowledge and skills
• Essentials of social work policy practice
• Partnerships in social care a handbook for developing effective services
• Doing practitioner research
• Supporting families child protection in the community
• Working with involuntary clients a guide to practice
• Children who care inside the world of young carers
• Effective practice in health social care and criminal justice a partnership approach
• Competence in social work practice a practical guide for professionals
• Connecting with children developing working relationships
• Family life and family support a feminist analysis
• Anti oppressive practice social care and the law
• Collaborative social work practice
• Social work law
• Supporting women after domestic violence loss trauma and recovery
• Values and ethics in social work practice
• Understanding social work preparing for practice
• Law and the social work practitioner a manual for practice
• Communication and interpersonal skills in social work
• Service user and carer participation in social work
• Collaboration in social work practice
• Social theory social change and social work
• Social work ideals and practice realities
• Applying research in social work practice
• New managerialism new welfare
• Social work themes issues and critical debates
• Research in social care and social welfare issues and debates for practice
• Ethics and values in social work
• Integrative counselling skills in action
• Social work critical theory and practice
• Building the future social work with children young people and their families
• Social work research and evaluation quantitative and qualitative approaches
• Problem drinking
• essentials of community care
• Pride against prejudice a personal politics of disability
• Sociology and social work
• Children exposed to parental substance misuse implications for family placement
• Addictions and problem drug use issues in behaviour policy and practice
• Practitioner research the reflexive social worker
• Reflective reader Social work and mental health
• Understanding health and social care
• Groupwork practice in social work
• Power and empowerment
• approved mental health professionals guide to mental health law
• Social work theory and practice for a changing profession
• Critical thinking for social work
• Working with substance misusers a guide to theory and practice
• Critical practice in social work
• Social work models methods and theories a framework for practice
• Social work skills a practice handbook
• Social work with children
• Social work and mental health
• Empowerment assessment care management and the skilled worker
• Social work with children and families
• Empowerment in everyday life learning disability
• What works for children effective services for children and families
• Anti racist social work a challenge for white practitioners and educators
• Good practice with vulnerable adults
• Qualitative methods in social work research challenges and rewards
• Modern social work theory a critical introduction
• Social work practice assessment planning intervention and review
• Promoting childrens wellbeing policy and practice
• Social work themes issues and critical debates
• Blackwell companion to social work
• Practising social work
• Working with older people
• Developments in British social policy 2
• Critical social policy a reader social policy and social relations