Catherine Forde is a Lecturer in the School of Applied Social Studies at University College Cork, Ireland.Deborah Lynch is Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Work and Human Services at the University of Queensland, Australia.

The content is very readable and engaging and offers a clear resource for community development and social work practitioners, educators and students to explore critical social work practice … This book should be included in social work courses that offer community development papers and modules and community development courses that wish to explore their relationship with social work … I highly recommend this work and will be utilising it in the community development papers we teach.

• 1. Social Work and Community Development: An Introduction2. The Influence of Policy on Social Work3. Beyond Dominant Discourses: Challenges and Opportunities4. Directions in Social Work Theory5. Making Connections in Principle and Practice6. 'Creative Activism' in Social Work Practice7. Scaffolding Critical Practice in the Community Development Context8. New Opportunities for Social Work Engagement with Critical CommunityDevelopment Approaches.