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Title Transforming social work practice : postmodern critical perspectives / edited by Bob Pease and Jan Fook.

Publication Info. London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 234 pages)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 1. Postmodern critical theory and emancipatory social work practice / Bob Pease and Jan Fook -- pt. I. Deconstructing the professional and organisational context of social work. 2. Social work and its search for meaning : Theories, narratives and practices / Peter Camilleri. 3. The organisation of social work in the customer culture / Gary Hough -- pt. II. Dealing with diversity and difference. 4. Social work ethics : Embracing diversity? / Linda Briskman and Carolyn Noble. 5. Challenging victimisation in practice with young women / Karen Crinall. 6. Offending mothers : Theorising in a feminist minefield / Lee FitzRoy. 7. Deconstructing masculinity -- reconstructing men / Bob Pease -- pt. III. Rethinking critical practice. 8. Power and activist social work / Karen Healy. 9. Community development and a postmodernism of resistance / Mary Lane. 10. Empowerment : The modern social work concept par excellence / Stephen Parker, Jan Fook and Bob Pease.
Summary Offers new strategies for social workers concerned with political action and social justice. It explores ways of developing practice frameworks, paradigms and principles which take advantage of the perspectives offered by postmodern theory.
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Local Note EBSCOhost SocINDEX with Full Text
Language English.
Subject Social service.
Social service -- Australia.
Postmodernism.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Services.
Postmodernism. (OCoLC)fst01073164
Social service. (OCoLC)fst01123192
Australia. (OCoLC)fst01204543
Welzijnszorg.
Maatschappelijk werk.
Postmodernisme.
Politieke aspecten.
Formation professionnelle.
Postmodernisme.
Pratique professionnelle.
Service social.
Travail social.
Travailleur social.
Added Author Pease, Bob.
Fook, Jan.
Other Form: Print version: Transforming social work practice. London ; New York : Routledge, 1999 041521646X 0415216478 (DLC) 99020553 (OCoLC)40838803
ISBN 0203164962 (electronic book)
9780203164969 (electronic book)
9780415216463 (hardback)
041521646X (hardback)
9780415216470 (paperback)
0415216478 (paperback)
041521646X (Cloth)
0415216478 (Paper)
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