Modern-day politics has much to learn from social work values. It is well understood in our
field that cooperation is a craft and its foundations lay in learning to listen well and discuss …

This paper focuses on the process of engaging with families where a child is at risk of harm,
and considers a relationship‐based approach to work with 'involuntary clients' of child …

This article provides a review of the contribution of Axel Honneth's model of recognition for
critical social work. While Honneth's tripartite conceptualisation of optimal identity-formation …

Simon Duffy's paper in a previous issue of this journal (Duffy, 2010) is an important
contribution to current debates on the meaning and implications of personalisation for social …

Societal norms and values along with laws and regulations strongly influence social work,
as do megatrends as globalisation and migration. International agreements on human rights …

This is the first book to provide social workers with an applicable model for radical practice.
Through examining the current state of social work in the UK and looking at the radical …

Luc Boltanski and Ève Chiapello's (2005) The New Spirit of Capitalism argues that
capitalism has the capacity to absorb critique and become ideologically energised and …

Som del av et større forskningsprosjekt intervjuet vi ti foreldre med flyktningbakgrunn om
deres erfaringer fra kontakt med barnevernet. Til tross for at foreldrene beskrev både …

Although participatory social work approaches have been considered as a fruitful strategy,
critical questions are raised in relation to the social justice aspirations of participatory social …

In this article, we attempt to conduct a critical analysis of the joint IFSW and IASSW social
work definition by re-reading it from the perspective of the relational paradigm. Our …