Book description
Fully revised and restructured, this fresh edition offers students
and trainee social workers an incisive and authoritative introduction
to the subject. As well as entirely new sections on theory and
practice, the expert contributions which have shaped the companion's
leading reputation have been updated and now include innovative
standalone essays on social work theory.
- Comprehensively reworked new edition comprising six substantive
sections covering essential topics for trainee social workers - in
effect, six books in one
- Includes an extensive introduction and chapters by leading experts
on the focus and purpose of social work
- Provides a unified textbook for trainees and an invaluable
professional reference volume
- Features a wealth of new material on theory and practice alongside
detailed expositions of the social and psychological framework,
stages in the human life cycle, and the objectives and core
components of social work
- Each chapter lists five key points to remember, questions for
discussion, and recommendations for further reading
Martin Davies is Emeritus Professor at the University of East
Anglia, UK, where he taught the university's Social Work in Society
course for twenty years. He came to UEA after a distinguished research
career in the UK Home Office and at Manchester University, where he
taught criminology, research methods, and research applications. The
founding director of UEA's graduate programme in Social Work, he has
authored and edited 12 books, including the previous editions of this
volume, as well as more than a hundred scholarly papers. Professor
Davies has also served as a research administrator with the Norwich
NHS Primary Care Trust, in addition to a five-year term on the Norfolk
and Waveney NHS Research Governance Committee with special
responsibility for health and social care.
