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An A-Z of Social Work Theory 

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Puzzled by terminology, skills, law, or theory? Revising for your placement or exam? Then look no further! This series of concise and easy-to-use A-Zs will be your guide.


Designed for both students and newly-qualified social workers, this book will introduce you to over 350 key theories, theorists and concepts in a concise and no-nonsense way. Careful cross-referencing will help you make important connections, while selected further reading will provide you with a springboard to further learning.

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Table of Content

A

Acceptance

Accountability

Action/activity

Activism

Adaptation

Advocacy

Affect/affect regulation

Affiliation

African-centred practice

Ageing

Ageism

Agency

Aggression

Aggression management

Alienation

Alliance

Altruism

Ambiguity

Ambivalence

Anti-discriminatory practice

Anti-oppressive practice

Anti-psychiatry

Anti-racist practice

Art

Assessment

Attachment theory

Authenticity

Athentization

Authority

Autonomy

B

Balance

Bauman, Zygmunt

Beck, Ulrich

Being

Bereavement

Biestek, Felix

Biopsychosocial model

Black perspectives

Body

Body/mind/spirit work

Boundary

Bourdieu, Pierre

Broker

Buddhism

Bureaucracy

Business

C

Capacity-building

Capital

Care/caring

Care management

Case

Case management

Case record

Casework

Change

Chaos theory

Children

Christianity

Citizen advocacy

Citizenship

Codes of ethics

Cognitive behavioural therapy

Colonialism

Commodification

Commonalities

Community

Community development

Community social work

Community work

Complex adaptive systems

Consciousness-raising

Contracts

Constructionism/constructivism

Context

Coping

Co-production

Core conditions

Counselling

Crisis

Crisis intervention

Critical incident analysis

Critical practice theory

Critical race theory

Critical realism

Critical reflection

Critical thinking

Cultural competence

Cultural imperialism

Culture

D

Decolonization

Deconstruction

Dependence/dependency

Determinism/determinants

Development

Dewey, John

Diagnosis

Diagnostic practice theory

Dialectic

Dialogue/dialogical practice

Difference

Dignity

Disability

Disabled living movement

Disadvantage

Disasters

Discourse

Discretion

Discrimination

Disruption

Diversity

Dread

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

Dual process theory

E

Eclecticism

Eco/ecocentric/ecological/ecosocial/green social work

Ecological systems/eco systems theory

Ego

Ego psychology

Emancipation

Embodiment

Emergence

Emotion

Emotional intelligence

Emotional labour

Empathy

Empiricism

Empowerment

The Enlightenment

Entrepreneurship

Epistemology

Equality

Equilibrium

Ethics

Ethics of care

Ethnic group/ethnicity

Evidence-based practice

exchange

exclusion

existentialism

F

Fairness

Family

Family group conferencing

Family social work

Family support implements

Family therapy

Feminist practice theory field

Fordism

Foucault, Michel

Foundationalism

Frame analysis/framing

Fraser, Nancy

Freedom

Freire, Paulo

Freud, Sigmund

Functional practice

Functionalism

Functional analysis

G

Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand

Gender

General systems theory

Generalist/generic practice

Germain, Carel Bailey

Giddens, Anthony

Gilligan, Carol

Globalization

Goffman, Erving

Goldstein, Howard

Gramsci, Antonio

groups/small groups

group care

groupwork

H

Habermas, Jürgen

Habitus

Halmos, Paul

Hegemony

Helping

Holism

Hope

Human rights

Humanistic practice

Humanitarianism

I

Identity

Identity politics

Ideology

Impartiality

Inclusion

Indigenist theory

Individualization

Inequality

Insight

Institutionalization

Interdependence

Interpretivist theories

Intersectionality

Intersubjectivity

Intervention

‘in vivo’

Islam

J

Judgement

Justice

K, L

Labelling

Language issues/linguistic turn

Liberal ideas

Liberation

Liberation theology

Life course theories

Life model

M

Mc Donaldization

Macro practice

Maintenance

Managerialism

Manualization

Market

Marketization

Marx, Karl

Marxist social work

Materialism

Meaning

Medicalization

Medical model

Mental health

Milieu therapy

Millennium Development Goals

Mindfulness

Modality

Modernity

Moral panics

Motivational interviewing

Multicultural practice

Multidisciplinary/multiprofessional practice/teamwork

N

Narrative practice theory

Need

Neoliberalism

Networks

Neuroscience

New public management

Non-directiveness

Normalization/social role valorization

O

Object

Object relations

Oppression

Ordinary housing/ordinary living movements

Other/othering/otherness

P

Parker Follett, Mary

Participation/client participation

Pathologization

Patriarchy

Peer advocacy

Peer support

Performance

Personalization

Person-centred practice

Person-in-situation/person-in-environment

Pessimism

Place

Pluralism

‘Post’ ideas

Post-colonialism

Postmodernism

Poverty

Power

Pragmatism

Praxis

Principle-based ethics

Privatization

Privilege

Problem

Problematization

Problem/troubled families

Problem-solving theory

Proceduralization

Process

Professionalization

Progressivism

Psychoanalysis

Psychodynamic theory

Psychologization

Psychosocial theory

Q

Quality

Quasi-market

R

Race

Racism/institutional racism

Radical practice theory

Rawls, John

Reconceptualization movement

Reciprocity

Recognition

Recovery

Reflection

Reflexivity

Reframing

Reid, William J.

Relational practice

Relationship

Religion

Representation

Residential care/residential work

Resilience/resiliency

Resistance

Respect/respect for persons

Richmond, Mary (Ellen)

Rights

Risk

Role

Role ambiguity

Role complementarity

Role conflict

Role distance

Role set

S

Safeguarding

Salomon, Alice

Schön, Donald S.

Security

The self

Self-actualization

Self-advocacy

Self-determination

Self-direction

Self-efficacy

Self-respect

Semiotics

Sen, Amartya Kumar

Sheffield, Ada Eliot

Signs of safety

Slavery

Social

Social action

Social capital

Social care

Social change

Social construction

Social development

Social exclusion

Social justice

Social learning theory

Social movements theory

Social pedagogy

Social reproduction theory

Social problems

Social role valorisation

Social work

Social work theory

Solution practice theory

Space

Spirituality

Stage

Steady state

Stigma

Strengths practice

Structural practice

Structural psychodynamic theory

Structural-functionalism

Structuralism

Study

Subject

Support

Surveillance

Symbolic interactionism

Systems theory

T

Task

Task-centred practice

Technical assistance programmes

Technical rational/technicist practice

Theory

Therapeutic alliance

Therapeutic community theory

Time

Timms, Noel

Tokenism

Tongan social work

Total institutions

Traditional social work

Transformation

Transtheoretical model of change

Trauma

Troubled families

U

Underclass

V

Values

Virtue ethics

Voice

W

Weber, Max

Welfare

Welfare rights

Welfare state

Wisdom

Wolfensberger, W.

Working through

Wooton, Barbara

X, Y, Z

About the author

Malcolm Payne holds honorary professorial posts with Manchester Metropolitan University, where he was for many years professor and head of Applied Community Studies, and Kingston University London. He worked as a social worker and manager in probation, child and adult social care and in community, mental health and residential care development work in local and national voluntary organisations, and in social work education in the UK, Finland, Poland and Slovakia. Among his many books are Modern social work theory (5th edition, 2021), Humanistic social work, What is professional social work?, Citizenship social work with older people, and (edited with Emma Reith-Hall) The Routledge handbook of social work theory (2019).
Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 296 ● ISBN 9781529757569 ● File size 0.8 MB ● Publisher SAGE Publications ● City London ● Country GB ● Published 2021 ● Edition 1 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 8020066 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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