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The Compleat Social Worker
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Essential reading for social work students, practitioners, and anyone interested in the theoretical and practical challenges of social work today.
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See moreThis book provides a guide to the challenges and tensions bound up in the role of being a social worker. David Howe explores how practitioners have to contain sometimes quite opposing functions or philosophies in the work that they do, and demonstrates that in order to be effective and practise with skill and wisdom, they have to encompass it all.
This is a little gem of a book, it provides the reader with a perspective on a number of discussions that are taking place in social work on a day to day basis. David Howe adopts a neutral stance, delivered in a readable style.' - Dave Mason, Staffordshire University
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The role of the social worker is to be found lying interestingly between society and the individuals they work with. As a result, social workers often feel pulled between the demands and challenges that each presents.
The Compleat Social Worker explores the many debates the profession enjoys, including those between nature and nurture, care and control, thought and feeling, art and science, facts and values. In examining these ideas and the discussions they sponsor, it celebrates social work's rich heritage of scientific thought and human relationships.
It is out of these many divisions and disagreements and their resolution that the idea of the well-rounded, compleat social worker emerges.
For those wishing to explore and enjoy, argue and acknowledge what it is to be a good social worker, this elegant book will prompt lively interest and debate.
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Dave Mason, Staffordshire University: 'This is a little gem of a book, it provides the reader with a perspective on a number of discussions that are taking place in social work on a day to day basis. David Howe adopts a neutral stance, delivered in a readable style.'
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ISBN: 9781137469465
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 20 November 2014
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Red Globe Press
Audience: Tertiary education
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Spine width: 14.0mm
Width: 124.0mm
Height: 196.0mm
Weight: 260g
Pages: 240
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About the Author
David Howe is Emeritus Professor at the University of East Anglia, UK. He is the author of many books including The Emotionally Intelligent Social Worker and A Brief Introduction to Social Work Theory.
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