International Social Work

VOLUME ONE: WELFARE THEORY AND APPROACHES Perspectives on the Development of Welfare Citizenship and Social Class - T. H. Marshall The Three Political Economies of the Welfare State - Gosta Esping-Anderson The New Politics of the Welfare State - Paul Pierson Welfarism, Governance and the State Some Contradictions of the Modern Welfare State - Claus Offe Society, the State, Social Problems and Social Policy - Vic George and Paul Wilding Relief, Labour and Civil Disorder: An overview - Francis Fox Piven and Richard Cloward The Changing Governance of Welfare: Recent trends in its primary functions, scale, and modes of coordination - Bob Jessop Welfare Professionals and Street Level Bureaucrats Professional Work - Andrew Abbott Am I my Brother's Keeper? - Zygmunt Bauman The Professional is Political - Ann Hartman Street-level Bureaucrats as Policy Makers - Michael Lipsky Gender, Care and the Subject of Welfare Women and Social Welfare - Gillian Pascall Gender and the Development of Welfare Regimes - Jane Lewis The Concept of Social Care and the Analysis of Contemporary Welfare States - Mary Daly and Jane Lewis Good-enough Principles for Welfare - Fiona Williams Democratic Subjects - Barbara Cruikshank Welfare and Social Development Growth, Redistribution, and Welfare: Toward social investment - James Midgley The Place of Social Capital in Understanding Social and Economic Outcomes - Michael Woolcock VOLUME TWO: SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE Practice Perspectives Is Social Work a Profession? - Abraham Flexner The Problem-Solving Work - Helen Harris Perlman Is Casework Effective? A review - Joel Fischer Conceptions of Social Work - Juliet Cheetham The Life Model of Social Work Practice: An overview - Carel Germain and Alex Gitterman Behavioral Social Work: Past, present, and future - Eileen Gambrill The Strengths Perspective in Social Work Practice: Extensions and cautions - Dennis Saleebey Knowledge for Practice Knowledge for Social Work - Olive Stevenson Boundaries of Social Work or Social Work of Boundaries - Andrew Abbott Notes on the Form of Knowledge in Social Work - Mark Philip Many Ways of Knowing - Ann Hartman The Knowledge Base of Social Work Practice: Theory, wisdom, analogue, or art - Howard Goldstein The Ethical Implications of Current Theoretical Developments in Social Work - Mel Gray The Theory and Practice relationship Some Thoughts on the Relationship between Theory and Practice in and for Social Work - Nigel Parton Surface and Depth in Social Work Practice - David Howe Practice Assessment Reflections on the Assessment of Outcomes in Child Care - Roy Parker Common Errors of Reasoning in Child Protection Work - Eileen Munro Practicing Empowerment Rethinking Empowerment - Barbara Levy Simon Empowerment and Oppression: An indissoluble pairing for contemporary social work - David Ward and Audrey Mullender Empowering Practice: Understanding and managing user-worker processes - Suzy Braye and Michael Preston-Shoot VOLUME THREE: SOCIAL WORK RESEARCH Mapping the Social Work Research Agenda Cutting Edge Issues in Social Work Research - Ian F. Shaw Confirmational Response Bias among Social Work Journals - William M. Epstein A Code of Ethics for Social Work and Social Care Research - Ian Butler Research Note: Research and empowerment - Peter Beresford and Clare Evans Qualitative Social Work Research The Social Work Context for Qualitative Research - Ian F. Shaw and Nick Gould Does the Glove Really Fit? Qualitative research and clinical social work practice - Deborah K. Padgett Theorizing from Practice: Towards an inclusive approach for social work research - Jan Fook Issues of Visibility and Colleague Relationships - Andrew Pithouse Researching Reflective Practice Schon Shock: A case for refraining reflection-in-action? - Michael Eraut There's No Such Thing as Reflection - Graham Ixer Evidence-based Social Work Developing Empirically Based Models of Practice - Betty J. Blythe and Scott Briar Evidence-Based Social Care: Wheels off the runway? - Geraldine Macdonald Some Considerations on the Validity of Evidence-based Practice in Social Work - Stephen Webb The Validity of Evidence-Based Practice in Social Work: A reply to Stephen Webb - Brian Sheldon Evidence-Based Practice: Counterarguments and objections - Leonard Gibbs and Eileen Gambrill Evidence-Based Practice and Social Work - C. Aaron McNeece and Bruce A. Thyer Critical Perspectives The Relationship between Qualitative and Quantitative Research: Paradigm loyalty versus methodological eclecticism - Martyn Hammersley Science, Research, and Social Work: Who controls the profession - H. Jacob Karger The Quest for Evidence-Based Practice? We are all positivists! - Bruce A. Thyer Evaluation with One Eye Closed: The empiricist agenda in social work research - Peter Rayner The Limits of Positivism in Social Work Research - David Smith Beyond Retroduction?-Hermeneutics, reflexivity and social work practice - Susan White VOLUME FOUR: FUTURE CHALLENGES The Future(s) of Social Work The Social Work Revolution - Joel Fischer Social Work Practice in the 21st Century - Brian Sheldon The Movement of Social Work to Private Practice (and Away From the Poor) - Harry Specht and Mark E. Courtney Social Work in the University - W.M. Epstein Social Work at the Crossroads - Mark Lymbery The Future of Social Work as a Profession - Leon Ginsberg Social Work, Modernity and Postmodernity Social Work, Modernity and Post Modernity - Graham B. McBeath and Stephen Webb Modernity, Postmodernity and Social Work - David Howe Deprofessionalizing Social Work: Anti-oppressive practice, competencies and postmodernism - Lena Dominelli Problematics of Government, (Post) Modernity and Social Work - Nigel Parton Parton, Howe and Postmodernity: A critical comment on mistaken identity - Carole Smith and Susan White New Policies and Technologies Mapping Child-Care Social Work in the Final Years of the Twentieth Century: A critical response to the 'looking after children' system' - Paul Michael Garrett Tough Love: Social work, social exclusion and the third way - Bill Jordan The Impact of Audit on Social Work Practice - Eileen Munro Clinical Practice Guidelines: Should social work develop them? - Matthew Owen Howard and Jeffery M. Jenson Interprofessionality in Health and Social Care: The Achilles' heel of partnership? - Bob Hudson Service Users, Social Policy and the Future of Welfare - Peter Beresford International Social Work Professionalization in Social Work: The challenge of diversity - Richard Hugman Issues in International Social Work: Resolving critical debates in the profession - James Midgley Local Orders and Global Chaos in Social Work - Stephen Webb Defining Social Work for the 21st Century - Isadora Hare Dilemmas of International Social Work: Paradoxical processes in indigenization, universalism and imperialism - Mel Gray