Priscilla Dunk-West Knihy

Focusing on the significance of sexuality in social work, this collection highlights the need for greater recognition and understanding of sexual identity in the field. It emphasizes that service users should feel free to express their sexuality and that social workers must be equipped to engage with sexual issues effectively. The volume features a mix of empirical research and reflective essays from women working in diverse social work environments, offering valuable insights into the intersection of sexuality and social work practice.

Linked to a range of core modules on pre-qualifying social work programmes but written also for those practitioners committed to nurturing their own social work identities, How to be a Social Worker is a must have text from one of social work's most up-and-coming authors.

Focusing on the development of a social work identity, this textbook offers a critical analysis of essential knowledge areas, including human growth and development and social work research. It emphasizes the interplay of personal values, principles, and experiences in shaping a practitioner's approach to social work, guiding students in integrating their unique perspectives into their professional practice.

This timely and much needed text book presents an innovative, theoretically based approach that helps students, practitioners and researchers alike orientate their view and sensibilities in a rapidly evolving modern world. Traditional social work approaches are often ill-equipped to take into account the emerging social change which has resulted from technological change, globalisation and mobilities, as well as environmental change. By bringing sociological social work perspectives to contemporary practice, it draws on concepts from a range of disciplines in recognition that we are collective thinkers and actors and that our ideas are shaped by what we read and build upon. Whether taking a social work theory module or preparing for placement, this sociological perspective provides a crucial foundation for practice and puts the ‘social’ back in to ‘social work’.