The SAGE Handbook of Social Work
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PART ONE: WELFARE, SOCIAL POLICY AND SOCIAL WORK
Social work, social policy and welfarism - David Gil
Theorising welfare for social work - Mimi Abramovitz
New modalities of welfare governance - Robert P. Fairbanks II
Welfare professionals and Street-level Bureaucrats - Sanford Schram
Gender and welfare - Mary Daly
Welfare and social development - James Midgley
PART TWO: SOCIAL WORK PERSPECTIVES
Practice perspectives - Pamela Trevithick
Ecological perspective - Gordon Jack
Behavioural perspectives - Eileen Gambrill
Family perspectives - Jacqueline Corcoran
Strengths perspectives - Patrick Sullivan
Critical perspectives - Karen Healy
PART THREE: SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE
Knowledge for reflective practice - Paula Doherty & Sue White
Risk assessment and decision making - Eileen Munro
Integrative psychotherapy - Marlene G. Cooper
Crisis intervention and trauma work - Barry Cournoyer
Empowering and transformative practice - Karen S. Haynes
Macro-community practice - Keith Popple
PART FOUR: SOCIAL WORK VALUES, ETHICS
Codes of ethics - Frederick Reamer
Ethical decision making - Donna McAuliffe
Anti-oppressive practice - Lena Dominelli
Feminist ethics of care - Brid Featherstone & Kate Morris
Diversity and social work practice - Purnima Sundar
Human rights and social justice - Richard Hugman
PART FIVE: SOCIAL WORK RESEARCH
Mapping the social work research agenda - Daniel Gredig, Ian Shaw and Peter Sommerfeld
Evidence-based social work - Bruce Thyer
Intervention research - Brian Taylor
Evaluation research - Donald Forrester
Qualitative social work research - Deborah Padgett
Participatory action research - Mark Baldwin
Systematic review - Elaine Sharland
PART SIX: SOCIAL WORK IN CONTEXT
Children and families - Stan Houston
Mental health - Barbara Fawcett
Older people - Nancy Hooyman
Disability - Romel Mackelprang
Immigrants and refugees - Doreen Elliott
Drug and alcohol intervention - Holly Matto
Criminal and juvenile justice - Nicola Carr
Family support services - Steven Walker
PART SEVEN: FUTURE CHALLENGES FOR SOCIAL WORK
The future(s) of social work - Paul Michael Garrett
Social work education - David Stoesz & H. Karger
Interprofessional practice - Imogen Taylor
New technologies for practice - Thomas Ley
Service-user participation - Peter Beresford
International social work - Narda Razack
Social work in developing countries - Kwaku Osei-Hwedie, Morena Rankopo
The politics of social work - Iain Ferguson Stirling

About the Author

James Midgley is the Harry and Riva Specht Professor of Public Social Services and Dean Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. Originally from South Africa, he studied at the University of Cape Town and the London School of Economics and held academic appointments at both universities before moving to the United States 1985 where he served as as Dean of the School of Social Work and Associate Vice Chancellor for Research at Louisiana State University. He accepted the appointment as Specht Professor and Dean of the School of Social Welfare Berkeley in 1997.

He has published widely on issues of social development, social policy, social work and international social welfare. His major books include Professional Imperialism: Social Work in the Third World. Heinemann, 1981; Social Security, Inequality and the Third World, Wiley, 1984; Comparative Social Policy and the Third World, Harvester, 1987 (with Stewart MacPherson); The Social Dimensions of Development: Social Policy and Planning in the Third World, Gower, 1989 (with Margaret Hardiman); Social Development: The Developmental Perspective in Social Welfare, Sage, 1995; Social Welfare in Global Context, Sage, 1997; Social Policy for Development, Sage, 2004 (with Anthony Hall) and Social Development: Theory and Practice, Sage, 2014.

In addition, he has edited or co-edited many books on international social welfare and social development. Among the most recent are Social Work and Social Development: Theories and Skills for Developmental Social Work, Oxford University Press, 2010 (with Amy Conley); Social Policy and Poverty in East Asia: The Role of Social Security, Routledge, 2010 (with K. L. Tang); Grassroots Social Security in Asia, Routledge, 2011 (with Mitsuhiko Hosaka); Colonialism and Welfare: Social Policy and the British Imperial Legacy. Edward Elgar, 2011 (with David Piachaud); Planning and Community Development: Case Studies. Madrid: Technical University of Madrid, GrupoGESPLAN-UPM, 2012 (with Adolfo Carzola); Social Protection, Economic Growth and Social Change: Goals, Issues and Trajectories in China, India, Brazil and Africa. Edward Elgar, 2013 (with David Piachaud); Social Protection in Southern Africa: New Opportunities for Social Development. Routledge, 2014 (with Leila Patel and Marian Ulricksen) and Social Policy and Social Change in East Asia. Lexington Books, 2014 (with James Lee and Yapeng Zhu).

He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare and holds Honorary Professorial appointments at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa, Nihon Fukushi University in Japan, Sun Yat-sen University in China and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

 

In 2008 Stephen Webb was appointed from the University of Sussex, UK to the University of Newcastle. He is Professor of Human Sciences and Director of the newly established Research Institute for Social Inclusion and Wellbeing (RISIW). Professor Webb is one of the worlds leading international researchers in the field of human services, Social Policy and is a pioneer of evidence-based practice research. His influential international research and publications since the late 1980s have significantly enriched the field of human services research by bringing innovative theoretical and methodological perspectives to the evaluation of social interventions and professional practice. His 2006 book Social Work in a Risk Society is widely acclaimed by international reviewers as demonstrating advanced scholarship and integrating sociological analysis to construct new conceptual and methodological frameworks in social work. His 2001 publication: ‘Some considerations on the validity of evidence-based practice in social work’, British Journal of Social Work, 31 (1), pp.57-79 is the world′s highest cited social work (field 1607) publication and ranked as the most influential journal article in the discipline over the past decade (Hodge et.al, 2011).

Reviews

′This manual will be indispensable for anyone wishing to understand recent findings on common themes and different points of view in international social work. It presents a continued flow of practical orientation in easy to read contributions′
- Prof. Dr. Rainer Treptow,
University of Tuebingen, Institute of Education

′This manual will be indispensable for anyone wishing to understand recent findings on common themes and different points of view in international social work. It presents a continued flow of practical orientation in easy to read contributions′
- Prof. Dr. Rainer Treptow,
University of Tuebingen, Institute of Education
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