Doing Critical Social Work

BOB PEASE is Professor of Social Work at the University of Tasmania. SOPHIE GOLDINGAY is a senior lecturer in the School of Health and Social Development at Deakin University. NORAH HOSKEN is a senior lecturer in the School of Health and Social Development at Deakin University. SHARLENE NIPPERESS is a lecturer in Social Work at RMIT University.

• ContentsForeword Donna BainesList of contributorsAcknowledgments of contributorsPart I Addressing the Tensions in Critical Social Work1 Doing critical social work in the neoliberal context: Working on the contradictions Bob Pease and Sharlene Nipperess2 Critical reflection and critical social work Christine Morley3 Towards critical social work supervision Carolyn Noble4 Making sense of different theoretically informed approaches in doing critical social work Norah Hosken and Sophie GoldingayPart II Critical Practices in Confronting Privilege and Promoting Social Justice5 Towards a critical human rights-based approach to social work practice Sharlene Nipperess6 Interrogating privilege and complicity in the oppression of others Bob Pease7 Social work, class and the structural violence of poverty Norah HoskenPart III Developing Critical Practices within the Organisational Context of Social Work8 Beyond the dominant approach to mental health practice Noel Renouf9 Embedding critical social work in child protection practice Robyn Miller10 Critical social work in Centrelink: an oxymoron or an opportunity? Peter Humphries11 Building relationships and effecting change: critical social work practice in prison settingsSophie Goldingay12 Professional practice standards and critical practices: addressing the tensions in social work field education settings Norah Hosken, Lesley Ervin and Jody LaughtonPart IV Doing Anti-discriminatory and Anti-oppressive Practice in Social Work13 Anti-oppressive practice with people seeking asylum in Australia: reflections from the field Sharlene Nipperess and Sherrine Clark14 Challenges for Indigenous and non-Indigenous practitioners in the neoliberal context Stephanie Gilbert15 Feminism under siege: critical reflections on the impact of neoliberalism and managerialism on feminist practice Ann Carrington16 Developing anti-ageist practice in social work Tina Kosteciki17 Working for equality and difference: (de)constructing heteronormativity Jude IrwinPart V Towards Collectivist and Transformative Practices in Social Work18 Environmental social work as critical, decolonising practice Mel Gray and John Coates19 Taking it to the streets: critical social work's relationship with activism Jessica Morrison20 Social work, disability and social change: a critical participatory approach Russell Shuttleworth21 The structural, the post-structural and the commons: new practices for creating change in a complex world Jose Ramos22 Education for critical social work: being true to a worthy project Selma Macfarlane