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Contemporary global challenges require practitioners to confidently analyse the dominant discourses and develop frameworks and strategies for future change. Engaging with Social Work equips students with a critical perspective and develops their understanding of social work and human services practice, with an emphasis on the principles of social justice and human rights. This fully revised second edition includes a new chapter on the emerging challenges and opportunities for social work, covering rising global inequality, re-invigorated possibilities for addressing violence against…
Provides an integrated critical perspective to practising social work and encourages the reader to challenge dominant social discourses and to consider their own personal values, biases and assumptions
This new edition covers the prominent topics of family violence, critical practice with diverse communities and responding to the rise in global inequality
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Authors
Christine Morley,Queensland University of Technology
Christine Morley is Professor of Social Work at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane.
Phillip Ablett,University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Phillip Ablett is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland.
Selma Macfarlane,Deakin University, Victoria
Selma Macfarlane is a Lecturer in Social Work at Deakin University, Victoria.