Compleat Social Worker

David Howe is Emeritus Professor at the University of East Anglia, UK. He is the author of many books including The Emotionally Intelligent Social Worker and A Brief Introduction to Social Work Theory.

• 1. The Individual and Society: Looking Both Ways in Social Work2. Order and Change: The Purpose of Social Work3. Care and Control: The Tasks of Social Work4. Bureaucrats and Professionals: How Social Workers are Organised and Operate5. Certainty and Uncertainty: How Social Work Decisions are Made6. Objects and Subjects: People's Inner and Outer Worlds7. Qualitative and Quantitative: Social Work's Research and Evidence Base8. Thought and Feeling: How Social Workers can Best Respond9. Past and Future: What is the Focus of Social Work10. Nature and Nurture: How to Make Sense of Human Behaviour11. Art and Science: The Craft of Social Work12. Good Relationships and Working Well: How to Practice Empathically and Effectively13. Freedom and Equality: How to Balance Individual Choice and the Collective Good14. Facts and Values: What is Known and What Ought to be Done15. On the Whole and Taking Everything into Consideration16. The Compleat Social Worker.

'This is a little gem of a book, it provides the reader with a perspective on a number of discussions that are taking place in social work on a day to day basis. David Howe adopts a neutral stance, delivered in a readable style.' - Dave Mason, Staffordshire University