Routledge Handbook of Critical Social Work

<p><em>The Routledge Handbook of Critical Social Work</em> brings together the world’s leading scholars in the field to provide a cutting-edge overview of classic and current research and future trends in the subject. </p><p></p><p>Comprised of 48 chapters divided into six parts: </p><p></p><ul> <br><br><p></p> <li>Historical social and political influences </li> <br><br> <br><br><p></p> <li>Mapping the theoretical and conceptual terrain </li> <br><br> <br><br><p></p> <li>Methods of engagement and modes of analysis </li> <br><br> <br><br><p></p> <li>Critical contexts for practice and policy </li> <br><br> <br><br><p></p> <li>Professional education and socialisation </li> <br><br> <br><br><p></p> <li>Future challenges directions and transformations </li> <br><br> </ul><p></p><p>it provides an authoritative guide to theory and method and the primary debates of today in social work from a critical perspective. </p><p></p><p>This handbook is a major reference work and the first book to comprehensively map the wide-ranging territory of critical social work. It does so by addressing its conceptual developments its methodological advances its value-based front-line practice and as an influence on the policy field. By offering a definitive survey of current academic knowledge as it relates to professional practice it provides the first comprehensive up-to-date definitive work of reference while at the same time identifying emerging innovative and cutting-edge areas.</p><p></p>