Social Work: A Very Short Introduction

by Jonathan Scourfield and Sally Holland

Book Overview

Social workers spend their time trying to ease social suffering. They encounter the extreme casualties of social inequality: the victims of poverty, illness, addiction, and abuse; they work with abusers and offenders; and operate in the space between the state and the poor or marginalized. Social work is replete with vivid human stories: the troubled teenage boy who cannot settle in a foster home; the frail older woman who is desperate for social...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198708459
• ISBN13: 9780198708452
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.0" x 4.1" x 7.0"