Social Work Practices: Contemporary Perspectives on Change

by Karen Healy

Book Overview

Karen Healy profoundly challenges, in the context of the postmodernity of late capitalism, many of the assumptions upon which the critical tradition in social work has been founded. This is a book which interrogates not only the emancipatory metanarratives of left perspectives from her position within the left, but also questions many of the received ideas about her professional power and identity, and about the kinds of social work practices necessary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761962727
• ISBN13: 9780761962724
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.2" x 9.3"