Product Description: "Achieving Power" aims to provide a new approach to the concept and practice of empowement in the fields of social work and welfare. Stuart Rees' book sets out to liberate students, educators and practitioners from the dominance of economic rationalist thought over the past decade, and to spell out the skills needed to give power to the powerless...read more

Product Description: Rather than a book of theory, this collection of essays focuses on practical strategies for integrating antioppressive theory into politicized, transformative social work. Practice vignettes, personal experiences, and casework examples  are provided and assert that everyday interactions with clients from disadvantaged groups can challenge injustice and ultimately transform larger systems of oppression...read more

Product Description: Rather than a book of theory, this collection of essays focuses on practical strategies for integrating antioppressive theory into politicized, transformative social work. Practice vignettes, personal experiences, and casework examples are provided and assert that everyday interactions with clients from disadvantaged groups can challenge injustice and ultimately transform larger systems of oppression...read more

Product Description:   Written with a strengths based perspective, this health care text integrates policy, practice, and professionalism for social workers.   With its focus on diversity and by using a biopsychosical perspective, Social Work and Health Care emphasizes a variety of ways of coping and ways to culturally assess and approach intervention...read more

Product Description: This original and stimulating book examines contemporary issues in social work, particularly exploring the politicisation of the profession from the 1970s onwards. Detailing the wider social and political influences on the development of social work, the book argues that underlying much social theory and practice is a pessimistic and degraded view of humanity...read more