Challenging Social Work:the Institutional Context of Practice

Catherine, McDonald

dc.contributor.author	Catherine, McDonald
dc.date.accessioned	2018-10-03T06:24:31Z
dc.date.accessioned	2023-07-21T08:15:16Z
dc.date.available	2018-10-03T06:24:31Z
dc.date.available	2023-07-21T08:15:16Z
dc.date.issued	2006
dc.identifier.isbn	978 1 4039 3545 8
dc.identifier.uri	http://10.215.13.25/handle/123456789/6386
dc.description	In summary, this is a book about change – in this case change of significant dimensions in the institution of welfare. The various developments discussed in Part 1 are presented not to frighten readers into abandoning social work as a constructive and desirable occupation, but to underscore the notion that social workers collectively and individually should not be passive and uncritical recipients of policy and management prescriptions developed by others. Rather, social workers should enter the field in all of its varied locations as knowing actors, well aware of what is occurring and why. Such social workers will also, I hope, be sufficiently critical of our own project to move it forward in positive ways. This, I suggest, is the fundamental challenge posed by the new institutional order of welfare.
dc.language	en	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	Palgrave Macmillan	en_US
dc.subject	Social service	en_US
dc.title	Challenging Social Work:the Institutional Context of Practice	en_US
dc.type	Book	en_US