[PDF] Structural Social Work eBook

Author : Robert P. Mullaly
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 22,5 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Social Case Work
ISBN : 9780195412451

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The need for an alternative to conventional social work is more obvious today than ever before. Given its acceptance of our present social order and its emphasis on reform of the individual and limited social reform, conventional social work appears powerless to deal with the increasing socialproblems that have already overloaded a diminishing welfare state. By continuing to recycle mainstream theories of social work practice that do nothing to change the present order, conventional social work actually contributes to the ideological hegemony of patriarchy, classism, racism and otheroppressive thought structures. The New Structural Social Work reveals the shortcoming of welfare capitalism as a social system and shows how conventional social work has failed to respond to systemic social problems. Mullaly presents a coherent and consistent theory of progressive social work, with oppression as its centralfocus, and examines elements of its political practice. It is shown how this practice is carried out within the social agency, outside the agency, and within the personal lives of structural social workers. This third edition has been extensively revised and updated, and includes.DT an expanded discussion of the political paradigms that influence social work in CanadaDT a new chapter on feminist, antiracist, and postmodernist critiques of the neo-conservative, liberal, social democratic, and Marxist paradigms that dominated the nineteenth and twentieth centuriesDT a new chapter that assesses the influence of the 'Third Way' and the role that social work plays in Third Way jurisdictions such as the UK.DT improved pedagogical aids to make this book more accessible to the mid-level university market.

Author : Bob Mullaly
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Page : pages
File Size : 16,69 MB
Release : 2009-11-06
Category : Social case work
ISBN : 9780195439137

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The need for an alternative to conventional social work is more obvious today than ever before. Given its acceptance of our present social order and its emphasis on reform of the individual and limited social reform, conventional social work appears powerless to deal with the increasing social problems that have already overloaded a diminishing welfare state. By continuing to recycle mainstream theories of social work practice that do nothing to change the present order, conventional social work actually contributes to the ideological hegemony of patriarchy, classism, racism and other oppressive thought structures. The New Structural Social Work reveals the shortcoming of welfare capitalism as a social system and shows how conventional social work has failed to respond to systemic social problems. Mullaly presents a coherent and consistent theory of progressive social work, with oppression as its central focus, and examines elements of its political practice. It is shown how this practice is carried out within the social agency, outside the agency, and within the personal lives of structural social workers. This third edition has been extensively revised and updated, and includes. DT an expanded discussion of the political paradigms that influence social work in Canada a new chapter on feminist, antiracist, and postmodernist critiques of the neo-conservative, liberal, social democratic, and Marxist paradigms that dominated the nineteenth and twentieth centuries DTa new chapter that assesses the influence of the 'Third Way' and the role that social work plays in Third Way jurisdictions such as the UK. DT improved pedagogical aids to make this book more accessible to the mid-level university market. Package Contains: 9780195419061 New Structural Social Work 9780195433586 Documentation Guide for the Social Sciences

Author : Bob Mullaly
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 27,33 MB
Release : 2018-09-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780199022946

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An up-to-date and thorough investigation of progressive social work theoryThis fully updated edition explores the shortcomings of welfare capitalism and reveals how conventional social work fails to respond to systemic social problems. By presenting a coherent theory of progressive social work with oppression as its focus, this text shows how students can incorporate aradical alternative to conventional social work within their own practice.

Author : Gale Goldberg Wood
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 42,34 MB
Release : 2006-09-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0231507828

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This classic text introduces students to the structural approach of social work practice, which assumes that many clients' problems arise from harmful social forces. By focusing on the construction of such realities as poverty, racism, and domestic violence, the structural approach counters the focus on individual change that is so common in our age of managed care and corporatization. For this edition Gale Goldberg Wood and Carol T. Tully have recast the text from the perspective of contemporary social constructionism without altering its main message and organization. They have added six new chapters, covering ethics, the role of the social worker as therapist and community organizer, learning and working within the organization, and the paradigm dilemma. In addition, case studies now include greater detail about the client's social context. Though much has changed since the first edition of this book was published, the need for well-trained, compassionate social workers remains. The Structural Approach to Direct Practice in Social Work continues to be an essential resource for practitioners who wish to help their clients confront oppressive social realities and affect system change through political action.

Author : Colleen Lundy
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 37,45 MB
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 144260039X

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The second edition of this popular social work practice text more fully addresses the connection between social justice and human rights.

Author : Mel Gray
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 31,36 MB
Release : 2012-06-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1446204995

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`An excellent book that provides a good deal of valuable material to stimulate debate and to alert readers of the need to engage more critically with the wider world in which social work is located′ - Professor Keith Popple, Professor of Social Work London South Bank University This exciting book draws together the key contemporary theories, theorists and perspectives used in social work and explains how they are applied in practice and critiqued by social workers. It provides: - An outline of the contribution made by a key theorist, theory or perspective to social work - A selective bibliography of each thinker or approach - A glossary defining key traditions, with cross links to key theorists and perspectives - A timeline of key publications - Study questions at the end of each chapter. The book will be valuable for undergraduate, graduate students, post qualifying students and researchers in social work.

Author : Colleen Lundy
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 30,87 MB
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1442601078

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"Colleen Lundy has created a wonderful synthesis of social work practice in a social justice context." - Lawrence Shulman, University at Buffalo School of Social Work

Author : Marie Connolly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 13,44 MB
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1107458633

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This second edition includes material on mind, body and spirit social work, mindfulness, and enhanced content on Indigenous social work.

Author : Timo Harrikari
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 41,8 MB
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317054075

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Social Change and Social Work discusses and examines how social work is challenged by social, political and economic tendencies going on in current societies. The authors ask how social work as a discipline and practice is encountering global and local transformations. Divided into three parts, topics covered include the changing social work mandate throughout history; social work paradigms and theoretical considerations; phenomenological social work; practice research; and gender and generational research. Taken together, the chapters in this anthology provide an authoritative and up-to-date overview of current discussions within the European social work research community.

Author : Peter H. Rossi
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 24,79 MB
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1483288277

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Toward a Structural Theory of Action: Network Models of Social Structure, Perception, and Action centers on the concept of social structure, perceptions, and actions, as well as the strategies through which these concepts guide empirical research. This book also proposes a model of status/role-sets as patterns of relationships defining positions in the social topology. This text consists of nine chapters separated into three parts. Chapter 1 introduces the goals and organization of the book. Chapters 2-4 provide analytical synopsis of available network models of social differentiation, and then use these models in describing actual stratification. Chapter 5 presents a model in which actor interests are captured. Subsequent chapter assesses the empirical adequacy of the two predictions described in this book. Then, other chapters provide a network model of constraint and its empirical adequacy. This book will be valuable to anthropologists, economists, political scientists, and psychologists.