Social Work

Jan Fook has social work degrees from the University of New South Wales and the University of Sydney and PhD from the University of Southampton and is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (UK). She has had a long career as a social work educator and a Professor of Education and has also worked in continuing education and the interprofessional field in Australia, the UK, Canada, Norway and the USA. She is currently Professor and Chair of the Department of Social Work at the University of Vermont. She is best known for her work on critical social work, practice research and critical reflection and has published extensively in these areas. She has travelled widely delivering lectures and workshops on critical reflection.

• Part I: Critical Potential and Current ChallengesChapter 1: The Critical Tradition of Social WorkChapter 2: Current Contexts of Practice: Challenges and PossibilitiesPart II: Rethinking IdeasChapter 3: New Ways of KnowingChapter 4: PowerChapter 5: Discourse, Language and NarrativeChapter 6: Identity and DifferencePart III: Redeveloping PracticesChapter 7: Critical Deconstruction and ReconstructionChapter 8: EmpowermentChapter 9: Problem Conceptualisation and AssessmentChapter 10: Narrative StrategiesChapter 11: Contextual Practice: Strategies for Working in and with ContextsChapter 12: Ongoing Learning

This gives students a good grounding in reflecting on their practice and why they need to do it .