Contents
Foreword Donna Baines
List of contributors
Acknowledgments of contributors
Part I Addressing the Tensions in Critical Social Work
1 Doing critical social work in the neoliberal context: Working on
the contradictions Bob Pease and Sharlene Nipperess
2 Critical reflection and critical social work Christine Morley
3 Towards critical social work supervision Carolyn Noble
4 Making sense of different theoretically informed approaches in
doing critical social work Norah Hosken and Sophie Goldingay
Part II Critical Practices in Confronting Privilege and Promoting
Social Justice
5 Towards a critical human rights-based approach to social work
practice Sharlene Nipperess
6 Interrogating privilege and complicity in the oppression of
others Bob Pease
7 Social work, class and the structural violence of poverty Norah
Hosken
Part III Developing Critical Practices within the Organisational
Context of Social Work
8 Beyond the dominant approach to mental health practice Noel
Renouf
9 Embedding critical social work in child protection practice Robyn
Miller
10 Critical social work in Centrelink: an oxymoron or an
opportunity? Peter Humphries
11 Building relationships and effecting change: critical social
work practice in prison settingsSophie Goldingay
12 Professional practice standards and critical practices:
addressing the tensions in social work field education settings
Norah Hosken, Lesley Ervin and Jody Laughton
Part IV Doing Anti-discriminatory and Anti-oppressive Practice in
Social Work
13 Anti-oppressive practice with people seeking asylum in
Australia: reflections from the field Sharlene Nipperess and
Sherrine Clark
14 Challenges for Indigenous and non-Indigenous practitioners in
the neoliberal context Stephanie Gilbert
15 Feminism under siege: critical reflections on the impact of
neoliberalism and managerialism on feminist practice Ann
Carrington
16 Developing anti-ageist practice in social work Tina
Kosteciki
17 Working for equality and difference: (de)constructing
heteronormativity Jude Irwin
Part V Towards Collectivist and Transformative Practices in Social
Work
18 Environmental social work as critical, decolonising practice Mel
Gray and John Coates
19 Taking it to the streets: critical social work's relationship
with activism Jessica Morrison
20 Social work, disability and social change: a critical
participatory approach Russell Shuttleworth
21 The structural, the post-structural and the commons: new
practices for creating change in a complex world Jose Ramos
22 Education for critical social work: being true to a worthy
project Selma Macfarlane
BOB PEASE is Professor of Social Work at the University of Tasmania. SOPHIE GOLDINGAY is a senior lecturer in the School of Health and Social Development at Deakin University. NORAH HOSKEN is a senior lecturer in the School of Health and Social Development at Deakin University. SHARLENE NIPPERESS is a lecturer in Social Work at RMIT University.
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