Priscilla Dunk-West

This textbook equips social work students with the tools to develop a social work identity. It provides a critical examination of the knowledge base of social work – from human growth and development to social work research – and explores how a practitioner’s own values, principles, and experience combine to shape their social work identity and practice alongside this. Linked...

This timely and much-needed textbook presents an innovative, theoretically based approach that helps students, practitioners, and researchers alike orientate their view and sensibilities in a rapidly evolving modern world. Traditional social work approaches are often ill-equipped to take into account the emerging social change resulting from technological change, globalisation, mobilities, and environmental change. By bringing sociological social work perspectives to...