Social Work Theories and Methods / Edition 2

by Mel Gray, Stephen Webb

Overview

The second edition of a text mapping directly onto a core module of the undergraduate social work degree: theories and methods. Chapters are written by a range of contributors from universities including Lancaster, Birmingham, Nottingham, York, UCLAN, UEA, Manchester and Glasgow.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781446208601
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	12/26/2012
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	8.90(w) x 7.10(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

In 2008 Stephen Webb was appointed from the University of Sussex, UK to the University of Newcastle. He is Professor of Human Sciences and Director of the newly established Research Institute for Social Inclusion and Wellbeing (RISIW). Professor Webb is one of the worlds leading international researchers in the field of human services, Social Policy and is a pioneer of evidence-based practice research. His influential international research and publications since the late 1980s have significantly enriched the field of human services research by bringing innovative theoretical and methodological perspectives to the evaluation of social interventions and professional practice. His 2006 book Social Work in a Risk Society is widely acclaimed by international reviewers as demonstrating advanced scholarship and integrating sociological analysis to construct new conceptual and methodological frameworks in social work. His 2001 publication: ‘Some considerations on the validity of evidence-based practice in social work’, British Journal of Social Work, 31 (1), pp.57-79 is the world's highest cited social work (field 1607) publication and ranked as the most influential journal article in the discipline over the past decade (Hodge et.al, 2011).

Table of Contents

Introduction - Mel Gray and Stephen A. Webb
PART ONE: THEORISTS
Jurgen Habermas - Stan Houston
Anthony Giddens - Harry Ferguson
Pierre Bourdieu - Paul Michael Garrett
Michel Foucault - Jason Powell
Judith Butler - Brid Featherstone and Lorraine Green
PART TWO: THEORIES
Attachment theory - David Howe
Feminist social work - Joan Orme
Critical social work - Mel Gray and Stephen A. Webb
Structural social work - Kate Murray and Steven Hick
Multiculturalism - Purnima Sundar and Mylan Ly
Neoliberalism - Sue Penna and Martin O'Brien
Postmodern social work - Barbara Fawcett
PART THREE: PERSPECTIVES FOR PRACTICE
Cognitive-behavioural approach - Eric L. Garland and A. Bruce Thyer
Ecological approach - Fred Besthorn
Social network analysis - Deirdre Kirke
Ethnography - Jerry Floersch, Jeffrey Longhofer and Megan Nordquest Schwaille
Ethnomethodology - Gerald de Montigny
Discourse and reflexivity - Sue White
Evidence-based practice - Debbie Plath
Ways of knowing - Ian Shaw

Editorial Reviews

Praise for the first edition:

'An excellent book that provides a good deal of valuable material to stimulate debate and to alert readers of the need to engage more critically with the wider world in which social work is located.

Professor Keith Popple, Professor of Social Work, London South Bank University

From the Publisher

This edition has retained the feeling of difference that came with the original and thus makes an alternative contribution to this genre of social work texts. It challenges its social worker readership to step outside familiar frameworks and discourse and to travel with the contributors through wider academic scenery and both recapture old connections and inform some new possibilities. It is a modern text, exploring a vast historical panorama, which successfully fuses theories of explanation with methods of intervention, enabling the reader to think about where today’s theoretically informed social work practice has come from.

Dr. Wulf Livingston