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Social work and social exclusion : the idea of practice / Michael Sheppard.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2006.Description: 1 online resource (281 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780754680741
  • 0754680746
  • 1281096938
  • 9781281096937
  • 9786611096939
  • 6611096930
  • 0754647684
  • 9780754647683
  • 9781351899307
  • 1351899309
  • 1315242850
  • 9781315242859
  • 9781351899291
  • 1351899295
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Social work and social exclusion.DDC classification:
  • 361.3/2 22
LOC classification:
  • HV40 .S58246 2006eb
Other classification:
  • 79.10
  • DS 4000
  • DS 5000
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Contents:
Introduction -- Social exclusion and social work -- Social work and social exclusion -- The nature of social work -- Knowledge and values, postmodernism and social work -- Need -- Authority and choice -- Empowerment -- Maintenance, social functioning and coping -- Interpretivism, reflection and social work as art -- Social work, science and technical instrumentalism -- Judgement and decision making : practical reasoning, process knowledge and critical thinking -- Social work intervention and human nature -- Conclusion : the discipline of social work.
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Summary: Social Work and Social Exclusion offers an original contribution to the understanding of social work and includes a reappraisal of some fundamental aspects of the profession and its practice. It explores a number of key aspects of social work including social work values and knowledge, empowerment, need, authority and choice, judgment and decision making, evidence-based practice and reflective practice, showing how they reflect an underlying concern with social exclusion.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-269) and indexes.

Introduction -- Social exclusion and social work -- Social work and social exclusion -- The nature of social work -- Knowledge and values, postmodernism and social work -- Need -- Authority and choice -- Empowerment -- Maintenance, social functioning and coping -- Interpretivism, reflection and social work as art -- Social work, science and technical instrumentalism -- Judgement and decision making : practical reasoning, process knowledge and critical thinking -- Social work intervention and human nature -- Conclusion : the discipline of social work.

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Social Work and Social Exclusion offers an original contribution to the understanding of social work and includes a reappraisal of some fundamental aspects of the profession and its practice. It explores a number of key aspects of social work including social work values and knowledge, empowerment, need, authority and choice, judgment and decision making, evidence-based practice and reflective practice, showing how they reflect an underlying concern with social exclusion.

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