Humanistic principles are at the heart of social work, yet they are often overlooked in the managerial drive for better control of risk, resources and procedures. In this wide-ranging new book, Malcolm Payne develops a framework for social work practice that bring the profession's humanistic values[...]

This book traces the origins and development of social work as we now know it. Providing an ambitious synthesis of historical and international material, it explores the different faces of social work, whether defined by social policy developments, professionalization, changes in client group, or sh[...]

Globalization challenges social work with constant social change, making a social worker's job and the task of social work education more complex and uncertain. Post-modern thinking suggests that social workers must learn to cope with complexity in ways that are in tension with the increasingly mana[...]

Third edition.

"What is Professional Social Work?" is a now classic analysis of social work as a discourse between three aspects of practice: social order, therapeutic and transformational perspectives. It enables social workers to analyse and value the role of social work in present-day multi-professional social [...]

Socialt arbete är inte något självklart, välavgränsat ämnesområde och det är därför svårt att få en klar överblick över det sociala arbetets teorier. Malcolm Payne ger här en presentation av befintliga praxisteorier och söker visa hur dessa kommer till användning, vilket värde de h[...]

This practical guide for marketers in the service industry provides essential knowledge on how to prepare a marketing plan. It takes the marketer step-by-step through the key phases of the marketing planning process and demonstrates the barriers that can prevent a service organization from being suc[...]