A Crisis in Care?: Challenges to Social Work / Edition 1

by John H. Clarke

Overview

This stimulating and authoritative book offers a distinctive analysis of the state of social work in contemporary Britain.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803988446
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	08/19/1993
Series:	Published in association with The Open University
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	186
Product dimensions:	7.44(w) x 9.68(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction - John Clarke
The Comfort of Strangers - John Clarke
Social Work in Context
Understanding People - Roger Sapsford
The Growth of an Expertise
The Rise and Fall of Social Work - Mary Langan
Challenges from the Centre - Allan Cochrane
Challenges from the Margins - George Taylor
New Directions in Social Work - Mary Langan

Editorial Reviews

‘Casts a sharp analytic eye over a profession facing challenges and undergoing change. The result is a book set to become a key text for students of social work and social policy' - Hilary Graham, University of Warwick

‘Reports the unvarnished truth about what has happened to social work, and what is likely to happen to it in the future. It does not make for consoling reading... at last someone is examining the real state of affairs' - Community Care

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