Social Work Theory and Ethics: Ideas in Practice

Author:   Dorothee Hölscher ,  Richard Hugman ,  Donna McAuliffe
Publisher:   Springer Verlag, Singapore
Edition:   1st ed. 2023
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Pages:   543
Publication Date:   18 March 2023
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Author:   Dorothee Hölscher ,  Richard Hugman ,  Donna McAuliffe
Publisher:   Springer Verlag, Singapore
Imprint:   Springer Verlag, Singapore
Edition:   1st ed. 2023
Weight:   1.163kg
ISBN:  

9789811910142


ISBN 10:   9811910146
Pages:   543
Publication Date:   18 March 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Introduction.- Psychological theory.- Systems theory.- Critical theory.- Post-modern and post-structural theory.- Post-human and post-anthropocentric theory.- Postcolonial and decolonising theory.- Person-centred approaches.- Problem-centred approaches.- Anti-oppressive practice.- Feminist social work.- Environmental practice and ‘green’ social work’.- Developmental social work.- Indigenous social work practices.

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Dr. Dorothee Hölscher is a social work lecturer in the School of Nursing Midwifery and Social Work at The University of Queensland in Australia and a research associate with the Department of Social Work and Criminology at the University of Pretoria in South Africa. Previously, she worked at Griffith University (Australia) and the Universities of KwaZulu Natal and the Witwatersrand (South Africa). Currently, she serves on the editorial board of the journal Ethics and Social Welfare (ESW). Dorothee began her social work education in Germany, followed by the completion of a Master of Social Science (cum laude) and a PhD (by publication) in South Africa. Her practice experience comprises social work with refugees and other cross-border migrants, community development, and child protection. Richard Hugman, PhD, is an emeritus professor of Social Work in the School of Social Sciences (SoSS) at the Universityof New South Wales, Australia. He has practised, taught, and researched social work in Australia and the UK. He has also worked as an independent consultant, most notably for UNICEF Vietnam (from 2004 to 2022). Richard’s work has variously focused on professional ethics, social development, refugees and forced migration, mental health, and social work with issues of late life. He has published widely in these areas, as well as being an editor or member of editorial boards of several major social work journals. In addition, Richard was the ethics commissioner of the International Federation of Social Workers (2008–2014) and a member of the ‘expert panel’ which drafted the 2004 international statement on ethics for social work. He was a Foundation Fellow of the Australian College of Social Work. Donna McAuliffe is a professor and academic lead for Social Work in the School of Health Sciences and Social Work, Griffith University, Australia.Donna completed her PhD on ethical dilemmas in social work practice at the University of Queensland in 2000 after many years of practice in mental health, legal social work, community development, and social policy. Her primary focus area of teaching and research is professional and applied ethics, and she has developed a well-known model of ethical decision-making that is widely used in social work education. Donna is the sole author of the second edition text, Interprofessional Ethics: Collaboration in the Social, Health and Human Services published by Cambridge University Press. She is also the lead co-author of the 7th edition text, The Road to Social Work and Human Service Practice, published by Cengage. She has a longstanding commitment to Editorial Boards of journals, including Ethics and Social Welfare, International Social Work, and International Journal of Social Work Values and Ethics. She regularly reviews for a number of other national and international journals. Donna hasbeen actively involved in revisions of the Australian social work Code of Ethics and is a Life Member of the Australian Association of Social Workers. She is also a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

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