Read more
Modern Social Work Theory, Fifth Edition provides a comprehensive and critical overview of the main practice theories that will act as a companion for students throughout their course and their career as a practitioner. In this substantially reworked and updated edition of his best-selling text, Malcolm Payne presents clear and concise evaluations of the pros and cons of major theories that inform social work practice and comparisons between them.
List of contents
- PART 1: Thinking about social work theory
- 1. The social construction of social work theory
- 2. Evaluating social work theory
- 3. Connecting theory and practice
- PART 2: Reviewing social cohesion theories
- 4. Psychodynamic relational practice
- 5. Psychodynamic attachment practice
- 6. Crisis and task-centred practice
- 7. Cognitive-behavioural practice
- 8. Motivational interviewing
- 9. Systems, complexity and chaos
- PART 3: Reviewing empowerment theories
- 10. Macro practice, social development and social pedagogy
- 11. Social construction practice: strengths and solutions
- 12. Social construction practice: narrative practice
- 13. Humanistic practice, existentialism and spirituality
- 14. Social justice, advocacy and empowerment
- PART 4: Reviewing social change theories
- 15. Critical practice
- 16. Eco practice
- 17. Feminist practice
- 18. Anti-oppressive, Indigenous and multicultural sensitivity practice
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, UK. 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 organizations. Most recently he was director of psychosocial and spiritual care and policy and development advisor for St Christopher's Hospice, London. He has also worked in social work education in the UK, Finland, Poland, and Slovakia. His publications include articles and papers on practice and theory in social work, on teamwork in interprofessional practice, and on practice and research in end-of-life care. Among his other books are 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).
Summary
Modern Social Work Theory, Fifth Edition provides a comprehensive and critical overview of the main practice theories that will act as a companion for students throughout their course and their career as a practitioner. In this substantially reworked and updated edition of his best-selling text, Malcolm Payne presents clear and concise evaluations of the pros and cons of major theories that inform social work practice and comparisons between them.
