Social Work in the Shadow of the Law

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PART I: REFLECTING ON SOCIAL WORKERS AND LAWYERS 1. Why social work and law? Phillip Swain 2. Towards a reconciliation of legal and social work practice Spencer Zifcak 3. Socialising the law: Multidisciplinary practice with lawyers and social workers Chris Maylea, Nareeda Lewers, Elissa Scott, Penelope Weller and Stan Winford

PART II: SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE IN LEGAL CONTEXTS 4. Looking back – looking forward: Past, current, and future child adoptions in Australia Susan Gair 5. Social work following sudden and unexpected death Dorothy Ford and Anne Giljohann 6. Child sexual abuse: Social-legal intersections of practice Jan Breckenridge and Michael Salter 7. Social work and prisons Eileen Baldry and Mindy Sotiri 8. Domestic violence, social work and the law Susan Heward-Belle 9. Elder abuse and the law David Rose and Ralph Hampson 10. Mediation of disputes in the Australian family law system Dale Bagshaw 11. Social work practice and debt Carolyn Bond and Martin Ryan 12. Australian lesbian, gay and/or transgender people and the law Damien W Riggs, Clemence Due and Clare Bartholomaeus 13. Housing and homelessness Louis Schetzer 14. Extending beyond the legal: Social work and human rights Linda Briskman and Jim Ife 15. Indigenous Australians: Continuity of colonialism in law and social work Terri Libesman and Linda Briskman 16. Mental health law and its implications for social work practice Lisa Brophy, Bill Healy and Chris Maylea 17. Out-of-home care: Prevention and placement strategies Susan Tregeagle 18. The NDIS: A quantum leap towards social rights for people with intellectual disabilities Christine Bigby and Darren O’Donovan 19. Social work with refugees and asylum seekers: An ever-changing partnership with the law Kirstein Fentiman and Justine O’Sullivan 20. Social security and welfare rights: What role for social work? Terry Carney and Christine Bigby 21. Youth justice and social work Wing Hong Chui

PART III: LEGAL ASPECTS OF SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE 22. The ethics of social work practice Donna McAuliffe, Phillip Swain and Andrew Day 23. Record keeping Deb Miles and Andrew Day 24. Social workers, the law and interpreters Uldis Ozolins 25. Courts and tribunals Simon Rice 26. Evidence Simon Rice

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