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This book is full of ideas about how social work education can
confront the individualising and often blaming form of social work
that neoliberalism ushered in four decades ago. Radical social work
is an approach to social work that has, at its heart, the departure
from solely behavioural, moral or psychological understanding of
service users' problems. Social work had originally been concerned
with the moral character of people in trouble (usually poor
people), making a clear division between those who were 'deserving'
of help and those who were 'undeserving'. The rise of science and
the 'psy' disciplines then led to psychological explanations for
the difficulties people found themselves in. Both explanations for
social problems - moral and psychological - with their narrow focus
on the individual have been enjoying a renaissance in recent times
with the neoliberal self-sufficiency narrative (moral) and the more
recent focus on trauma (psychological). Radical social work
challenges those explanations, concerned as it is with the
circumstances a person might find themselves in - poverty, poor
housing, poor education, high crime rates, and lack of
opportunities of all kinds. This book is a step towards
resurrecting radical social work principles, and it urges us to
think about how social work education can be reshaped to that end.
Radical Challenges for Social Work Education is a significant new
contribution to social work practice and theory, and will be a
great resource for academics, researchers, and advanced students of
Politics, Education, Social Work, Sociology, Public Policy,
Development Studies, Anthropology, and Human Geography. The
chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue
of the journal Social Work Education.
This book provides social workers with a framework for reflecting
on their day-to-day practice. Using a social worker's diary as a
starting point, it provides valuable insight in to how reflection
enhances skills and how factors such as values and emotions can
shape social work practice.
Be proud to be a lazy radical! This textbook makes the case for a
radical approach to social work that can be embraced by everyone.
It's an approach based on real empathy and an understanding of
oppression, of managerialism, of the moral heart of social work, of
humanism and of the effects of neoliberal hegemony. Jane Fenton
provides a model of radical practice for students and social
workers who are committed to 'doing the right thing', and who want
to develop their own framework for practice. This book will appeal
to students who are activists, but want to frame their
individual-level practice in a meaningful way, and to those who are
non-activist and non-political but simply want to be good social
workers. It will give a political and moral understanding of social
work practice and lead to confident, value-based and enjoyable
social work.
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