Synopsis
This revised edition continues to defend the idea of a profession seeking to maintain disadvantaged people in the community. It includes a new chapter on the framework within which social work operates in practice - child care, disability, mental health, old age and criminal justice.
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Professor Martin Davies is the Executive Director of the School of Social Work at the University of East Anglia, Norwich. A qualified and experienced probation officer, he has spent much of his professional life engaged in social work research and education. He has been responsible for nine books, concerned either with probation practice or with the role of social workers in society.
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'...remains a sound introduction to social work.' Community Care '...here is a source of wisdom, compassion, analysis, quiet erudition and most important of all, it is a book of real value to practitioners.' British Journal of Social Work
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