`[A]ims to clarify how competent practice emerges from the integration of knowledge, values and skills.... It includes fairly detailed discussion of...
Evaluation and Social Work Practice offers a comprehensive treatment of the central issues confronting evaluation in social work that links theory...
`Karen Healy has written a very interesting and worthwhile book that explores the relevance and significance of postmodern theory to social work. It...
`This lively book critiques New Labour assumptions and implementation of policies related to citizenship, communities and welfare reform and the...
`Fred Powell argues for social work as civic engagement, promoting inclusion and justice through dialogue and trust. His book is an impressive...
`A really fine book... an impressive work that adds much to the development of the use of qualitative methodology in social work research' - William J...
'The strengths of this book are the first two chapters outlining the issues around realist evaluation and the final chapter, as well as the use...