Globally, social work faces increasingly complex cultural, political, economic, legal, organisational, technological and professional conditions.
Critically reflecting on the subject, this book heightens critical consciousness among social work researchers, educators, practitioners and students about the structural dimensions of social problems and human suffering; it highlights the inter-relationship between agency and structure and discusses strategies to challenge and change both individual and societal consciousness.
Offering the reader an opportunity to gain in-depth understanding of how critical reflection is possible in contemporary social work research, practice and education, it will be required reading for all social work scholars, students and professionals.
Author(s): Christian Franklin Svensson, Pia Ringø
Series: Routledge Advances in Social Work
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 228
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Preface
List of contributors
1 Critical reflection: concepts and forms of knowledge
in a global world
2 The sociology of knowledge: ideology, critical reflection and
the consequences of capitalism to social work
3 Critique in social work research: arguments for a synthesis between critical realism and German critical theory
4 Critical reflections on international social work research:
beyond South/North divides
5 Healing past wounds or addressing the future? Critical social work in post-war settings
6 Experiences of ethnic discrimination: potentials for social change in Taiwan
7 The use of reflective processes and teams in the practice of
supervision: a critical glance
8 Mature law in the Nordic countries: critical perspectives on social work in the context of public authority
9 From experimentalism to governance tool: local community work caught between emancipative goals and the sanctioning state
10 Learning from user perspectives: critical reflections in the
frontline of employment-oriented social work
11 Applying a salutogenic and interactional approach to critically
reflect on perspectives on disability in social work
12 Inclusion is a two-way process: policy and social intervention among migrants
13 Knowing risk: why we need an empirical quantitative critique in social work and research
14 Decision making and risk in social work: critical reflections on
digital technologies
15 Revitalising the concept of surface and depth: an analytical
tool for critical reflection
16 The promise of social change: critical reflections on
social innovation
Index
