Governing Risk : Care and Control in Contemporary Social Work PDF
by M. Hardy
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Drawing on Foucault's later work on governmentality, this book traces the effects of 'the rise of risk' on contemporary social work practice.
Focusing on two 'domains' of practice - mental health social work and probation work - it analyses the ways in which risk thinking has affected social work's aims and objectives, methods and approaches.
It critically interrogates the claim that the logic of actuarialsim is implicated in a shift from 'care' to 'control' and argues the case for a distinctive approach to understanding and undertaking social work which does justice to the reality of contemporary practice.
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- Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:30/01/2015
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- ISBN:9781137313515
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:232 pages, 0
- Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:30/01/2015
- Category:
- ISBN:9781137313515