Practising Social Work is a valuable contribution to the current debate on social work technique and method since it provides a systematic exploration of a range of social work approaches, with each chapter focusing on a single theme and explaining the practice implications of particular methods. Taking in a range of client groups, from young offenders to elderly people, the book includes chapters on anti-racist work, a feminist approach, and working with service users. Other chapters look at crisis intervention, alternatives to custody, family therapy, community work, systems theory, task-centred work, behaviourism, groupwork, casework, welfare rights, and contract work.