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Contents
Foreword Donna Baines
List of contributors
Acknowledgments of contributors
Part I Addressing the Tensions in Critical Social Work
1 Doing critical social work in the neoliberal context: Working on the contradictions Bob Pease and Sharlene Nipperess
2 Critical reflection and critical social work Christine Morley
3 Towards critical social work supervision Carolyn Noble
4 Making sense of different theoretically informed approaches in doing critical social work Norah Hosken and Sophie Goldingay
Part II Critical Practices in Confronting Privilege and Promoting Social Justice
5 Towards a critical human rights-based approach to social work practice Sharlene Nipperess
6 Interrogating privilege and complicity in the oppression of others Bob Pease
7 Social work, class and the structural violence of poverty Norah Hosken
Part III Developing Critical Practices within the Organisational Context of Social Work
8 Beyond the dominant approach to mental health practice Noel Renouf
9 Embedding critical social work in child protection practice Robyn Miller
10 Critical social work in Centrelink: an oxymoron or an opportunity? Peter Humphries
11 Building relationships and effecting change: critical social work practice in prison settingsSophie Goldingay
12 Professional practice standards and critical practices: addressing the tensions in social work field education settings Norah Hosken, Lesley Ervin and Jody Laughton
Part IV Doing Anti-discriminatory and Anti-oppressive Practice in Social Work
13 Anti-oppressive practice with people seeking asylum in Australia: reflections from the field Sharlene Nipperess and Sherrine Clark
14 Challenges for Indigenous and non-Indigenous practitioners in the neoliberal context Stephanie Gilbert
15 Feminism under siege: critical reflections on the impact of neoliberalism and managerialism on feminist practice Ann Carrington
16 Developing anti-ageist practice in social work Tina Kosteciki
17 Working for equality and difference: (de)constructing heteronormativity Jude Irwin
Part V Towards Collectivist and Transformative Practices in Social Work
18 Environmental social work as critical, decolonising practice Mel Gray and John Coates
19 Taking it to the streets: critical social work's relationship with activism Jessica Morrison
20 Social work, disability and social change: a critical participatory approach Russell Shuttleworth
21 The structural, the post-structural and the commons: new practices for creating change in a complex world Jose Ramos
22 Education for critical social work: being true to a worthy project Selma Macfarlane
Summary
An undergraduate text showing how critical social work theory can be put into practice in a range of contexts from mental health to child and family services and with diverse population groups.
