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Print Price: $81.95

Format:
Paperback
284 pp.
189 mm x 246 mm

ISBN-13:
9780198781493

Publication date:
August 1998

Imprint: OUP UK


Social Policy and Social Work

David Denney

In this book, David Denney introduces some of the fundamental debates which link social work to social policy. Relevant to undergraduate students and researchers of social policy and social work , as well as professionals in related areas, this book enables the reader to develop a critical understanding of how social policy is related to social work both practically and theoretically. This is the only text of its kind which encourages and assists social workers in understanding recent developments in social policy. Throughout the book the centrality of linking theory to practice is emphasized. Chapters cover issues surrounding older people, disability, mental health, community care, working with offenders, children, the family, antiracism and social work. The book is equipped with further learning aids: All chapters contain a summary of the main points at the beginning, exercises and guided reading.

Readership : 2nd and 3rd year undergraduate students of social policy and social work. Also Lecturers in these subjects. Appropriate for students of nursing and care management.

Reviews

  • Denny provides a critical perspective on practice towards a thoughtful and compassionate social work, a notion that is all but lost in the current marketized environment. ... This is a highly readable text which should prove useful in making explicit the relationship between current social policy and social work practice./ British Journal of Social Work Vol 29 No 4
  • The strengths outweigh any weaknesses of this ambitious and welcome text. Brian Munday, University of Kent, Canterbury

Introduction: Aims of the Book
PART ONE: CONCEPTS, CONTEXT AND IDEAS
1. Historical Developments
2. Ideology, Social Policy and Social Work
3. Social Policy, Social Work and Social Problems
4. Services, Poverty and the Social Construction of Human need
5. Discrimination and Oppression: Policy and Practice
6. Ideological Perspectives and Older People: a Case Study
PART TWO: USER GROUPS
7. Disablement: Social Work and Social Policy
8. Black People: Social Work and Social Policy
9. Women: Policy and Practice
10. Working with Families
11. Sexuality and Social Work
12. Children and Child Care
13. Mental Health Policy and Services
14. Working with Offenders
PART THREE: MARKETS: WELFARE AND PRACTICE
15. Competition and Community Care
16. The Impact of Community Care and Practice
17. Users' Rights and User Empowerment
18. Problem Definitions and Solutions: Looking Back to the Future
Bibliography

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David Denney worked as a probation officer in Birmingham and London. He has taught on social work and Social Policy courses at the Universities of Kent and Wales. He currently holds a Senior Lectureship/ Readership at Royal Holloway University of London. He has held a visiting scholarship at the University of North Carolina and has wide international consultancy experience. He gave evidence to the Commission on Systemic racism in the Ontario Criminal Justice System.

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Special Features

  • covers the fundamental debates that link social work and policy
  • The only text of its kind to encourage and assist social workers in understanding recent policy developments
  • Learning aids enhance usefulness to students: book comes with chapter summaries, exercises and guided reading.