Social Work as a Profession: A Comparative Cross-national Perspective ISBN:978-1-86178-078-2 This book provides a fresh

This book provides a fresh understanding of the radical tradition and shows how it can be developed in contemporary social work

This issue has considerable conceptual

He acts as an independent social worker preparing community care assessments and reports on adults at risk and adults with mental disorder for solicitor agencies

Gill McIvor

field-level community workers and managers

Social Work as a Profession: A Comparative Cross-national Perspective ISBN:978-1-86178-078-2 This book provides a freshThis volume is a pioneering study, offering a systematic global comparison of the professional features of social work. Intended for students, researchers, teachers and social work practitioners with an interest in the professional characteristics of social work and the sociology of the professions, it provides a broadly based examination of trends in social work in diverse social and political contexts. The book takes a cross national comparative