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Governing Risk: Care and Control in Contemporary Social Work
Mark Hardy
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Description for Governing Risk: Care and Control in Contemporary Social Work
Hardcover. Drawing on Foucault's later work on governmentality, this book traces the effects of 'the rise of risk' on contemporary social work practice. Focusing on two 'domains' of practice - mental health social work and probation work - it analyses the ways in which risk thinking has affected social work's aims and objectives, methods and approaches. Num Pages: 227 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JKSM; JKSN; JKVS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 144 x 19. Weight in Grams: 430.
Drawing on Foucault's later work on governmentality, this book traces the effects of 'the rise of risk' on contemporary social work practice. Focusing on two 'domains' of practice – mental health social work and probation work – it analyses the ways in which risk thinking has affected social work's aims and objectives, methods and approaches.
Drawing on Foucault's later work on governmentality, this book traces the effects of 'the rise of risk' on contemporary social work practice. Focusing on two 'domains' of practice – mental health social work and probation work – it analyses the ways in which risk thinking has affected social work's aims and objectives, methods and approaches.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Number of Pages
221
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230364158
SKU
V9780230364158
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Ref
99-15
About Mark Hardy
Mark Hardy is Lecturer in Social Work at the University of York, UK.
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