ΒΙΒΛΙΟΘΗΚΗ ΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΚΗΣ ΕΡΓΑΣΙΑΣ Νο1 ( 27-4-2017 )

                Modern Social Work Theory

by Malcolm Payne

A revised, reworked and restyled new edition of this worldwide best-seller from a leading social work author. Compact and clearly structured, and featuring all-new material on strengths, narrative and solution focused approaches, it retains its position as the definitive introduction to the theories of social work practice.
This masterly text is a classic in its field and will be a reliable companion throughout the course of your studies and your career as a social work practitioner.
In this substantially reworked and updated fourth edition of his best-selling text, Malcolm Payne presents clear and concise evaluations of the pros and cons of major theories that inform social work practice, and comparisons between them. Modern Social Work Theory is now more accessible and comprehensive than ever, offering:
• the most complete coverage of social work theory, from classic perspectives to the very latest ideas, including a new chapter dedicated to strengths, narrative and solutions approaches
• a host of brand new case examples showing how theories can be applied to everyday practice
• new analysis of the ethical dimensions of different social work theories and what common values they share
• 'Pause and Reflect' questions to encourage you to draw on your own experience and develop your thinking
• updated 'Example text' sections which summarise the most current thinking and help bridge the gap between introductions to each theory and more specialist writing.
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Malcolm Payne is a social work writer based at St Christopher's Hospice in London and Opole University in Poland; he is in Poland three or four times a year.
He has worked in most kinds of social work. Among his jobs were setting up mental health residential and community care projects, coordinating community and third-sector work in Liverpool, which included a lot of work on unemployment. He also chaired a project developing advocacy for young people in care.
For a long time he was a senior academic in the UK, but gave that up in 2002 and moved to work at St Christopher's, where he writes a regular blog at http://blogs.stchristophers.org.uk about social work and palliative care policy. He says in the blog: why do people talk about tools in social work and healthcare? It's because they want to seem like practical people, but most so-called tools are just filling out forms.