Social Work and the COVID-19 Pandemic: International Insights

by Michael Lavalette (Editor), Vasilios Ioakimidis (Editor)

Overview

As the world grapples with the complex impacts of COVID-19, this book provides an urgent critical exploration of how Social Work can and should respond to this global crisis. The book considers the ecological, epidemiological, ideological and political conditions which gave rise to the pandemic, before examining the ways that social work has responded in different nations across the Global North and Global South. This series of nation studies examine good practices and suggest new ways to renew and regenerate social work moving on from COVID-19. Contributors also reflect on the key themes that have emerged, including a rise in domestic violence and the ways that the pandemic has disproportionately affected those in working class and minority communities, exacerbating existing inequalities.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781447360360
Publisher:	Policy Press
Publication date:	10/19/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	160
File size:	329 KB

About the Author

Michael Lavalette is Editor in Chief of CRSW, the Everton Chair of Social and Community Engagement at Liverpool Hope University and a founding member of the Social Work Action Network. Vasilios Ioakimidis is Editor of the British Journal of Social Work, Founding Professor of Social Work and Director of the Centre for Social Work at the University of Essex and a founding member of the Social Work Action Network. Iain Ferguson is Honorary Professor of Social Work and Social Policy at the University of West Scotland and a founding member of the Social Work Action Network.