An A-Z of Social Work Theory

A Acceptance Accountability Action/activity Activism Adaptation Advocacy Affect/affect regulation Affiliation African-centred practice Ageing Ageism Agency Aggression Aggression management Alienation Alliance Altruism Ambiguity Ambivalence Anti-discriminatory practice Anti-oppressive practice Anti-psychiatry Anti-racist practice Art Assessment Attachment theory Authenticity Athentization Authority Autonomy B Balance Bauman, Zygmunt Beck, Ulrich Being Bereavement Biestek, Felix Biopsychosocial model Black perspectives Body Body/mind/spirit work Boundary Bourdieu, Pierre Broker Buddhism Bureaucracy Business C Capacity-building Capital Care/caring Care management Case Case management Case record Casework Change Chaos theory Children Christianity Citizen advocacy Citizenship Codes of ethics Cognitive behavioural therapy Colonialism Commodification Commonalities Community Community development Community social work Community work Complex adaptive systems Consciousness-raising Contracts Constructionism/constructivism Context Coping Co-production Core conditions Counselling Crisis Crisis intervention Critical incident analysis Critical practice theory Critical race theory Critical realism Critical reflection Critical thinking Cultural competence Cultural imperialism Culture D Decolonization Deconstruction Dependence/dependency Determinism/determinants Development Dewey, John Diagnosis Diagnostic practice theory Dialectic Dialogue/dialogical practice Difference Dignity Disability Disabled living movement Disadvantage Disasters Discourse Discretion Discrimination Disruption Diversity Dread Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders Dual process theory E Eclecticism Eco/ecocentric/ecological/ecosocial/green social work Ecological systems/eco systems theory Ego Ego psychology Emancipation Embodiment Emergence Emotion Emotional intelligence Emotional labour Empathy Empiricism Empowerment The Enlightenment Entrepreneurship Epistemology Equality Equilibrium Ethics Ethics of care Ethnic group/ethnicity Evidence-based practice exchange exclusion existentialism F Fairness Family Family group conferencing Family social work Family support implements Family therapy Feminist practice theory field Fordism Foucault, Michel Foundationalism Frame analysis/framing Fraser, Nancy Freedom Freire, Paulo Freud, Sigmund Functional practice Functionalism Functional analysis G Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand Gender General systems theory Generalist/generic practice Germain, Carel Bailey Giddens, Anthony Gilligan, Carol Globalization Goffman, Erving Goldstein, Howard Gramsci, Antonio groups/small groups group care groupwork H Habermas, Jurgen Habitus Halmos, Paul Hegemony Helping Holism Hope Human rights Humanistic practice Humanitarianism I Identity Identity politics Ideology Impartiality Inclusion Indigenist theory Individualization Inequality Insight Institutionalization Interdependence Interpretivist theories Intersectionality Intersubjectivity Intervention 'in vivo' Islam J Judgement Justice K, L Labelling Language issues/linguistic turn Liberal ideas Liberation Liberation theology Life course theories Life model M McDonaldization Macro practice Maintenance Managerialism Manualization Market Marketization Marx, Karl Marxist social work Materialism Meaning Medicalization Medical model Mental health Milieu therapy Millennium Development Goals Mindfulness Modality Modernity Moral panics Motivational interviewing Multicultural practice Multidisciplinary/multiprofessional practice/teamwork N Narrative practice theory Need Neoliberalism Networks Neuroscience New public management Non-directiveness Normalization/social role valorization O Object Object relations Oppression Ordinary housing/ordinary living movements Other/othering/otherness P Parker Follett, Mary Participation/client participation Pathologization Patriarchy Peer advocacy Peer support Performance Personalization Person-centred practice Person-in-situation/person-in-environment Pessimism Place Pluralism 'Post' ideas Post-colonialism Postmodernism Poverty Power Pragmatism Praxis Principle-based ethics Privatization Privilege Problem Problematization Problem/troubled families Problem-solving theory Proceduralization Process Professionalization Progressivism Psychoanalysis Psychodynamic theory Psychologization Psychosocial theory Q Quality Quasi-market R Race Racism/institutional racism Radical practice theory Rawls, John Reconceptualization movement Reciprocity Recognition Recovery Reflection Reflexivity Reframing Reid, William J. Relational practice Relationship Religion Representation Residential care/residential work Resilience/resiliency Resistance Respect/respect for persons Richmond, Mary (Ellen) Rights Risk Role Role ambiguity Role complementarity Role conflict Role distance Role set S Safeguarding Salomon, Alice Schoen, Donald S. Security The self Self-actualization Self-advocacy Self-determination Self-direction Self-efficacy Self-respect Semiotics Sen, Amartya Kumar Sheffield, Ada Eliot Signs of safety Slavery Social Social action Social capital Social care Social change Social construction Social development Social exclusion Social justice Social learning theory Social movements theory Social pedagogy Social reproduction theory Social problems Social role valorisation Social work Social work theory Solution practice theory Space Spirituality Stage Steady state Stigma Strengths practice Structural practice Structural psychodynamic theory Structural-functionalism Structuralism Study Subject Support Surveillance Symbolic interactionism Systems theory T Task Task-centred practice Technical assistance programmes Technical rational/technicist practice Theory Therapeutic alliance Therapeutic community theory Time Timms, Noel Tokenism Tongan social work Total institutions Traditional social work Transformation Transtheoretical model of change Trauma Troubled families U Underclass V Values Virtue ethics Voice W Weber, Max Welfare Welfare rights Welfare state Wisdom Wolfensberger, W. 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