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Anti-Oppressive Ethics and Values in Social Work: Past Caring?
Derek Clifford
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Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JKSN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 154 x 14. Weight in Grams: 394.
This book explains the importance of using an anti-oppressive approach to understanding ethics and values in social work. It argues that an anti-oppressive approach is an intrinsic element of effective professional practice, not an optional extra.
Offering an original framework and making clear the connections to good practice throughout, the authors draw on a range of classical and contemporary ethical theory, including:
? the classic theories of Kant, Mill and Rawls
? recent writing on virtue theory and postmodernist ethics
? recent feminist ethical theory
Numerous case examples are used to illustrate how anti-oppressive values apply ... Read more
This book explains the importance of using an anti-oppressive approach to understanding ethics and values in social work. It argues that an anti-oppressive approach is an intrinsic element of effective professional practice, not an optional extra.
Offering an original framework and making clear the connections to good practice throughout, the authors draw on a range of classical and contemporary ethical theory, including:
? the classic theories of Kant, Mill and Rawls
? recent writing on virtue theory and postmodernist ethics
? recent feminist ethical theory
Numerous case examples are used to illustrate how anti-oppressive values apply ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781403905567
SKU
V9781403905567
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About Derek Clifford
DEREK CLIFFORD is Senior Lecturer in Social Work at Liverpool John Moores University, UK, where he is module leader for the Anti-Oppressive Practice and Social Divisions modules of the Diploma in Social Work programme. He has taught in Australia and the West Indies as well as taught and practised in the UK and he is the author of Social Assessment Theory ... Read more
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