Social Work Ideals and Practice Realities

MARK LYMBERY is Lecturer in Social Work at the University of Nottingham. He has 18 years experience of working in local authority social services departments. He has researched and published in the areas of care management, social work education and social work in primary health care.SANDRA BUTLER was Director of Social Work Studies in the Centre for Social Work, University of Nottingham until 2000.

• Introduction; M.Lymbery & S.ButlerPART I: PROGRESSIVE PRACTICE FOR TOUGH TIMES: SOCIAL WORK, POVERTY AND DIVISION IN THE 21st CENTURY; A.Davis & P.M.GarrettResponding to Crisis: The Changing Nature of Welfare Organisations; M.LymberySocial Workers' Management of Organisational Change; M.Charles & S.ButlerPART II: SOCIAL WORK IN THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR: MOVING FORWARD WHILE HOLDING ON; B.Badham & T.EadieCommunity Connections and Creative Mental Health Practice; P.Bates & S.ButlerExploitation, Protection and Empowerment of People with Learning Disabilities; P.Cooke & R.EllisManagerialism and Care Management Practice with Older People; M.LymberyCreativity and Constraint in Child Welfare; M.Charles & J.WiltonSocial Work with Young Offenders: Practising in a Context of Ambivalence; R.Canton & T.EadiePART III: THE FUTURE OF SOCIAL WORK; O.StevensonBibliography.

'...a book I would strongly recommend to students for purchase, because it puts much else of what they must learn into a useful context for understanding.' - Mark Baldwin, Senior Lecturer in Social Work, University of Bath '...it has been well edited and is a serious attempt to grapple with some very complex ethical, political and practical issues with which practitioners in the UK are currently faced.' - Paul Bywaters, Professor of Social Work, Coventry University '[A] useful guide to struggling practioners...' - Ethics and Social Welfare