With over 40,000 copies sold across its lifetime, this is social work classic from a leading
international author. Synthesizing the complex ideas and concepts that characterize social …

This article outlines and develops the concept of 'ethics work'in social work practice. It takes
as its starting point a situated account of ethics as embedded in everyday practice:'everyday …

Writing a book like this incurs a variety of debts. We have no doubt that thinking and writing
are collaborative acts–and many people have done their best to help us think and write in …

Ethics are central to the caring professions. The very idea of a profession stakes a claim on
the ethical basis of knowledge and skills. In this book Richard Hugman examines new …

There is an emerging tendency in education policy in the United Kingdom and elsewhere to
acknowledge the importance of teachers' agency, that is, of their active contribution to …

This paper was prompted by the question, what do we mean by conducting 'ethnography'? Is
it in fact 'case study'drawing on ethnographic techniques? My contention is that in many …

The authors draw on their own experiences and those of practitioners, service users and
carers to understand issues of power and oppression, demonstrating how the law can be …

What do social workers need to know in order to practise skilfully and effectively? Edited by
three Social Work's leading scholars, the second edition of this highly respected textbook …

Child Welfare Removals by the State addresses a most important (but little-researched)
legal proceeding: when the State intervenes in the private family sphere to remove children …

What does it mean to be a good professional? What is the role of courage in professional
life? How do we develop the moral qualities of respectfulness, justice and care? Firmly …