Social Work and Power: 9 (Reshaping Social Work)

Roger Smith

ISBN 10: 1403991243 / ISBN 13: 9781403991249

Published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2008

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Social Work and Power: 9 (Reshaping Social Work)
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1403991243
• ISBN 13: 9781403991249
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 380 grams

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Synopsis

Power is an unavoidable issue in social work. This important text explores these complex issues, both at a conceptual and applied level, in order to give students a clear understanding of the theoretical frameworks relevant to practice and to help them begin to think through the challenges they are likely to face and how they will deal with these.

About the Authors

Roger Smith is Emeritus Reader in the History of Science, Lancaster University, UK and Associate Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation. He is an internationally well known historian and philosopher of psychology and the human sciences, the author of standard texts in the field as well as specialist studies relating to the history of mind and brain and the understanding of 'being human'.

Jo Campling was a Lecturer in Social Policy for many years at Hillcroft College in South London, UK. She also worked as a freelance publishing consolutant.