| Description |
xviii, 178 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Practice theory in context |
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Practice theory in context series.
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| Contents |
Contents note continued: 4.Difference, Noticing, and Cultural Competence -- Cultural Competency and Social Work -- Difference and Noticing -- The Relation of Noticing to Cultural Competence -- Other Issues Related to Cultural Competence -- Going Forward -- On Knowing the Other -- Applying Levinas -- Humility and Cultural Humility -- Relationality -- Concluding Thoughts -- Notes -- References -- 5.Social Work as Risky Business -- Meanings of Risk -- The Social Construction of Risk -- Social Work in the Risk Society -- Neo-liberalism and Risk -- Scientific Rationality and Risk -- Instrumental Rationality -- Actuarialism -- Quantification: The Risk of Eating Raw Oysters -- What Can Be Done? Maintaining a Social Constructionist Orientation -- Notes -- References -- 6.Re-constructing the Strengths Perspective -- Strengths as Relationship -- The Relational Self -- Strengths as Perspective -- The Language of Strengths -- Positive Psychology -- Concluding Thoughts -- Notes -- |
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Contents note continued: References -- 7.Social Work from a Global Perspective -- Donning Global Lenses -- Globalization -- The Commodification of Children -- Interdependence -- Implications of a Discourse Perspective for Social Work -- Practice Implications: Entering the Discourse -- Globalization from Above and Below -- Global, Local, or Glocal? -- Problematize and Challenge the Assumed and Taken-for-granted -- Interrogate Our Own Understandings of Globalization and a Global Perspective -- Incorporate Values into Globalization Including Issues of Inequality and Oppression -- Engage In and Foster Dialogue -- Concluding Thoughts -- Notes -- References -- 8.Knowledge and Evidence: Exploring the Practice--Research Relationship -- Social Work and Science: Professional Aspirations -- The Evidence-based Practice Movement in Social Work -- Has Social Work Strayed from the ̀€Real' EBP? -- Other Relevant Issues -- The Ethical Argument -- Respect -- Evidence -- |
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Contents note continued: The Political Context of Evidence -- Information and Knowledge -- Knowledge in the EBP Context -- Distinguishing Information and Knowledge -- Practitioner-generated Knowledge -- Transcending the Research--Practice Binary -- Additional Thoughts Addressing the EBP Framework -- Should We Retain EBP? -- Concluding Thoughts -- Notes -- References |
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Machine generated contents note: 1.Social Construction as a Transforming Framework -- Transformative Change -- Change and Transformation as Language -- Developing a Transformative Orientation -- Postmodernism: The Basics -- The Social Construction of Social Construction -- Truth -- Discourse -- Notes -- References -- 2.Revisioning Social Work Ethics -- Values, Ethics, and Morality -- Mainstream Perspectives on Ethics -- Critiques of Mainstream Perspectives -- Social Work Ethics -- Codes of Ethics -- Social Constructionist Perspectives -- Broadening the Conversation: Communicative Ethics -- Notes -- References -- 3.Human Rights: A Critical Analysis -- Social Work and Human Rights -- The Relationship Between Human Rights and Social Justice -- Meanings and Controversies About Human Rights -- Human Rights as Discourse -- Richard Rorty -- Zygmunt Bauman -- A Way Forward? -- Concluding Thoughts: The Case for Retaining Human Rights -- Notes -- References -- |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Social service.
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| ISBN |
1137346426 |
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9781137346421 |
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