Practising Social Work in a Complex World

ROBERT ADAMS is Visiting Professor of Social Work in the School of Health and Social Care at the University of Teesside, UK. LENA DOMINELLI is Professor of Applied Social Sciences and Head of Social and Community and Youth Work at the University of Durham, UK. MALCOLM PAYNE is Adviser (Policy and Development) at St Christopher's Hospice, London, UK. There are also a number of prestigious contributors to this book, bringing experience of teaching and practice from a variety of backgrounds

Introduction.- What Do We Mean by Integrative Social Work?.- PART 1: UNCERTAINTY AND COMPLEXITY IN PRACTICE.- What do we mean by Integrative Social Work? (TBC).- Encountering Complexity and Uncertainty.- Persistent Oppressions: The Example of Domestic Violence.- Risk and Protection: Working With Children and Families.- Troubled and in Trouble: Young People, Truancy and Offending.- Sexuality.- Frailty and Dignity in Old Age.- Risk, Rights and Anti-discrimination Work in Mental Health.- Social Work with Asylum-seekers.- Legal and Illicit Drug Use.- PART 2: MANAGEMENT, LEADERSHIP AND CHANGE.- Management and Managerialism.- Managing the Workload.- Partnership Working.- Strategic Leadership and Planning.- Supervision and Being Supervised.- Managing Risk and Decision-making.- Managing Finances.- Quality Assurance.- Change and Continuity in Social Work.- PART 3: RESEARCHING SOCIAL WORK.- Research Methods for Ethical Practice.- Getting Started With a Piece of Research/Evaluation in Social Work.- Doing Literature Searches and Reviews.- Experiencing Research as a Practitioner.- Evaluating Practice.- Emancipatory Social Work Research.- Developing Social Work Research.- Concluding Comment.