Social Work and Empowerment
Social Work and Empowerment by Robert Adams is a fully revised second edition published by Macmillan in 1996. This edition, comprising 221 pages, presents a framework for developing empowering social work across various domains, addressing the complexities surrounding the concept of empowerment within the field.
Readers will find an examination of the tensions between consumerism and the practice of empowerment in social work, particularly in the context of health and social care following the NHS and Community Care Act 1990. The book delves into topics such as citizen participation and self-help groups in Great Britain, providing insights into the challenges and opportunities within social services.
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Originally published as Self Help, Social Work and Empowerment, this fully revised second edition sets out a framework for the development of empowering social work in different domains. It examines the inherently problematic concept of empowerment in social work, the tensions between the consumerism informing the operation of markets in health and social care in the wake of the NHS and Community Care Act 1990 and the development of an empowering practice.
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