Just Practice: A Social Justice Approach to Social Work
- ISBN-10
- 0197507522
- ISBN-13
- 9780197507520
- Category
- Social justice
- Pages
- 433
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020-12-15
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Author
- Janet L. Finn
Description
"Welcome to the complex and dynamic terrain of social work. Some of you will be reading this book because you are planning to pursue a career in social work. Perhaps your image of the field is still fuzzy, waiting to be developed in the coming weeks and months. Others may encounter this book after years of experience in the social work profession. Perhaps your own life and work experiences, political commitments, or concerns about people's everyday struggles for survival, rights, and dignity have brought you to these pages. You may have a clear image of social work practice in mind. Depending on your experience, you may wish to emulate this image or you may wish to change it"--
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