MALCOLM PAYNE is Director of Psychosocial and Spiritual Care at St Christopher's Hospice, London and Emeritus Professor of Applied Community Studies at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. He has worked in probation, social services, the national and local voluntary sector and universities and is the author of a number of books including Modern Social Work Theory (third edition), Social Work and Community Care and Teamwork in Multiprofessional Care.

'A very readable text' - Jacob Kornbeck in Professional Social Work

• List of FiguresList of TablesForward and AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Social Work's HistoriesBefore Social Work: to 1945Social Work and Welfare States 1945-1970sSocial Work in Question: 1970s-2001Perceptions of Social Work's RoleValues and PhilosophyAgencies, Law and Social OrderProfessional and Trade Union OrganisationKnowledge and ResearchEducation and TrainingSocial Work's FuturesFurther Reading and ResourcesBibliography.