INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL WORK

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Social welfare can be considered to be the well-being of the community as a whole. It is under-pinned by those networks of relationships among persons, firms, and institutions in a society,together with associated norms of behaviour, trust, cooperation, etc., that enable a society tofunction effectively. The SAGE Library of Social Welfare focuses on the critical and reflectivenature of social welfare, theory, policy and practice. By bringing together seminal works fromacross the social welfare spectrum, from social work and social care to youth and communitywork, these multi-volume collections encourage dialogue and debate on those issues relatingto public and government intervention into social life.

Mel Gray is Professor of Social Work at the University of Newcastle, Australia. She is one ofthe world's leading international researchers in the field of human services and a pioneer ofinternational social development research. She is Joint Editor of the Australian Social Work jour-nal and has an established international track record in publishing highly acclaimed researchon knowledge formation strategies and experiential learning. Mel Gray is a pioneer in inter-national human services research and is a member of the editorial boards of several interna-tional journals, among them International Journal of Social Welfare, Journal of Social Work,Families in Society: The Journal of the Contemporary Human Services, Journal of Immigration andRefugee Studies, Development Journal of South Africa, and the South African social work journalSocial Work/Maatskaplike Werk.

Stephen Webb is Professor of Human Sciences and Director of the Institute of AdvancedStudy for Humanity (IASH) at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He is one of the world'sleading international researchers in the field of human services and is a pioneer of evidence-based practice research. Stephen Webb was recently awarded the prestigious and competitiveGerman Academic Exchange scheme Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) for aVisiting Professorship at the Centre of Human Capabilities Research, University of Bielefeld. Heis on international editorial boards of the journals Australian Social Work, Social Work & Societyand Critical Social Work.

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SAGE LIBRARY OF SOCIAL WELFARE

INTERNATIONALSOCIAL WORK

VOLUME 1Welfare Theory and Approaches

Edited by

Mel Gray and Stephen Webb

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Contents

Appendix of Sources xiiiEditors’ Introduction: International Social Work

Mel Gray and Stephen A. Webb xxiii

Volume I: Welfare Theory and Approaches

Introduction: Welfare Theory and ApproachesMel Gray and Stephen A. Webb xli

Perspectives on the Development of Welfare

1. Citizenship and Social Class 3T.H. Marshall

2. What is Social Policy? 49Richard M. Titmuss

3. The Three Political Economies of the Welfare State 57Gosta Esping-Andersen

4. The New Politics of the Welfare State 85Paul Pierson

Welfarism, Governance and the State

5. Some Contradictions of the Modern Welfare State 119Claus Offe

6. Society, the State, Social Problems and Social Policy 133Vic George and Paul Wilding

7. Relief, Labor, and Civil Disorder: An Overview 155Francis Fox Piven and Richard Cloward

8. The Changing Governance of Welfare: Recent Trends in Its Primary Functions, Scale, and Modes of Coordination 183Bob Jessop

Welfare Professionals and Street Level Bureaucrats

9. The Professionalization of Everyone? 199Harold L. Wilensky

10. Am I My Brother’s keeper? 229Zygmunt Bauman

11. Professional Work 239Andrew Abbott

12. The Professional Is Political 269Ann Hartman

13. Street-Level Bureaucrats as Policy Makers 275Michael Lipsky

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Gender, Care and the Subject of Welfare

14. Women and Social Welfare 291Gillian Pascall

15. Gender and the Development of Welfare Regimes 305Jane Lewis

16. The Concept of Social Care and the Analysis of Contemporary Welfare States 323Mary Daly and Jane Lewis

17. Good-Enough Principles for Welfare 341Fiona Williams

18. Democratic Subjects 363Barbara Cruikshank

Welfare and Social Development

19. Growth, Redistribution, and Welfare: Toward Social Investment 389James Midgley

20. The Place of Social Capital in Understanding Social and Economic Outcomes 409Michael Woolcock

Volume II: Social Work Practice

Introduction: Social Work Practice Mel Gray and Stephen A. Webb vii

Practice Perspectives

21. Is Social Work a Profession? 3Abraham Flexner

22. The Problem-Solving Work 17Helen Harris Perlman

23. Is Casework Effective? A Review 31Joel Fischer

24. Conceptions of Social Work 53Juliet Cheetham

25. The Life Model of Social Work Practice: An Overview 83Carel Germain and Alex Gitterman

26. Behavioral Social Work: Past, Present, and Future 125Eileen Gambrill

27. Structural Family Therapy 149Salvador Minuchin

28. The Strengths Perspective in Social Work Practice: Extensions and Cautions 163Dennis Saleebey

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Knowledge for Practice

29. Knowledge for Social Work 181Olive Stevenson

30. Boundaries of Social Work or Social Work of Boundaries? 195Andrew Abbott

31. Notes on the Form of Knowledge in Social Work 213Mark Philp

32. Many Ways of Knowing 239Ann Hartman

33. The Knowledge Base of Social Work Practice: Theory, Wisdom, Analogue, or Art? 245Howard Goldstein

34. The Ethical Implications of Current Theoretical Developments in Social Work 265Mel Gray

The Theory and Practice Relationship

35. Some Thoughts on the Relationship between Theory and Practice in and for Social Work 283Nigel Parton

36. Surface and Depth in Social-Work Practice 299David Howe

Practice Assessment

37. Social Work, Social Science and Practice Wisdom 321Michael Sheppard

38. Reflections on the Assessment of Outcomes in Child Care 349Roy Parker

39. Common Errors of Reasoning in Child Protection Work 361Eileen Munro

Practicing Empowerment

40. Rethinking Empowerment 383Barbara Levy Simon

41. Empowerment and Oppression: An Indissoluble Pairing for Contemporary Social Work 393David Ward and Audrey Mullender

42. Empowering Practice: Understanding and Managing User–WorkerProcesses 405Suzy Braye and Michael Preston-Shoot

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Volume III: Social Work Research

Introduction: Social Work Research Mel Gray and Stephen A. Webb vii

Mapping the Social Work Research Agenda

43. Cutting Edge Issues in Social Work Research 3Ian F. Shaw

44. Confirmational Response Bias among Social Work Journals 15William M. Epstein

45. A Code of Ethics for Social Work and Social Care Research 43Ian Butler

46. Research Note: Research and Empowerment 55Peter Beresford and Clare Evans

47. Epistemology, Ontology and Methodology: What’s That Got to Do with Social Work? 63Cathy Aymer and Toyin Okitikpi

Qualitative Social Work Research

48. The Social Work Context for Qualitative Research 77Ian F. Shaw and Nick Gould

49. Does the Glove Really Fit? Qualitative Research and Clinical Social Work Practice 95Deborah K. Padgett

50. Theorizing from Practice: Towards an Inclusive Approach for Social Work Research 107Jan Fook

51. Issues of Visibility and Colleague Relationships 125Andrew Pithouse

52. Reading the Case Record: The Oral and Written Narratives of Social Workers 145Jerry Floersch

Researching Reflective Practice

53. From Technical Rationality to Reflection-in-Action 173Donald Schon

54. Schön Shock: A Case for Reframing Reflection-in-action? 209Michael Eraut

55. There’s No Such Thing as Reflection 223Graham Ixer

Evidence-Based Social Work

56. Developing Empirically Based Models of Practice 239Betty J. Blythe and Scott Briar

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57. Evidence-Based Social Care: Wheels off the Runway? 251Geraldine Macdonald

58. Some Considerations on the Validity of Evidence-Based Practicein Social Work 267Stephen A. Webb

59. The Validity of Evidence-Based Practice in Social Work: A Reply to Stephen Webb 293Brian Sheldon

60. Evidence-Based Practice: Counterarguments to Objections 303Leonard Gibbs and Eileen Gambrill

61. Evidence-Based Practice and Social Work 327C. Aaron McNeece and Bruce A. Thyer

Critical Perspectives

62. The Relationship between Qualitative and Quantitative Research:Paradigm Loyalty versus Methodological Eclecticism 345Martyn Hammersley

63. Science, Research, and Social Work: Who Controls the Profession? 365H. Jacob Karger

64. The Quest for Evidence-Based Practice?: We Are All Positivists! 379Bruce A. Thyer

65. Evaluation with One Eye Closed: The Empiricist Agenda in Social Work Research 393Peter Raynor

66. The Limits of Positivism in Social Work Research 403David Smith

67. Beyond Retroduction? – Hermeneutics, Reflexivity and Social Work Practice 417Susan White

Volume IV: Future Challenges

Introduction: Future Challenges Mel Gray and Stephen A. Webb vii

The Future(s) of Social Work

68. The Social Work Revolution 3Joel Fischer

69. Social Work Practice in the 21st Century 21Brian Sheldon

70. The Search for Identity: Defining Social Work – Past, Present, Future 33Margaret Gibelman

71. The Movement of Social Work into Private Practice (And Away from the Poor) 51Harry Specht and Mark E. Courtney

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72. Social Work in the University 73William M. Epstein

73. Social Work at the Crossroads 89Mark Lymbery

74. The Future of Social Work as a Profession 107Leon Ginsberg

Social Work, Modernity and Postmodernity

75. Social Work, Modernity and Post Modernity 121Graham B. McBeath and Stephen A. Webb

76. Modernity, Postmodernity and Social Work 137David Howe

77. Deprofessionalizing Social Work: Anti-Oppressive Practice, Competencies and Postmodernism 155Lena Dominelli

78. Problematics of Government’, (Post) Modernity and Social Work 177Nigel Parton

79. Parton, Howe and Postmodernity: A Critical Comment on Mistaken Identity 199Carole Smith and Susan White

New Policies and Technologies

80. Social Work’s ‘Electronic Turn’: Notes on the Deployment of Information and Communication Technologies in Social Work with Children and Families 221Paul Michael Garrett

81. Mapping Child-Care Social Work in the Final Years of the Twentieth Century: A Critical Response to the ‘Looking After Children’ System 239Paul Michael Garrett

82. Tough Love: Social Work, Social Exclusion and the Third Way 261Bill Jordan

83. The Impact of Audit on Social Work Practice 283Eileen Munro

84. Clinical Practice Guidelines: Should Social Work Develop Them? 305Matthew Owen Howard and Jeffrey M. Jenson

85. Interprofessionality in Health and Social Care: The Achilles’ Heel of Partnership? 323Bob Hudson

Service-Users and Participation

86. Service Users, Social Policy and the Future of Welfare 341Peter Beresford

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87. Service Users and Practitioners Reunited: The Key Component for Social Work Reform 357Peter Beresford and Suzy Croft

International Social Work

88. Professionalization in Social Work: The Challenge of Diversity 375Richard Hugman

89. Issues in International Social Work: Resolving Critical Debates in the Profession 391James Midgley

90. Local Orders and Global Chaos in Social Work 407Stephen A. Webb

91. Defining Social Work for the 21st Century: The International Federation of Social Workers’ Revised Definition of Social Work 425Isadora Hare

92. Dilemmas of International Social Work: Paradoxical Processes inIndigenisation, Universalism and Imperialism 441Mel Gray

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Appendix of Sources

All articles and chapters have been reproduced exactly as they were first pub-lished, including textual cross-references to material in the original source.

Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission toreproduce material in this book.

1. ‘Citizenship and Social Class’, T.H. Marshall T.H. Marshall (ed.), Sociology at the Crossroads (London: Heinemann,1949), pp. 67–127.

2. ‘What is Social Policy?’, Richard M. TitmussSocial Policy: An Introduction (London: Allen and Unwin, 1974): 23–32.

3. ‘The Three Political Economies of the Welfare State’, Gosta Esping-AndersenCanadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, 26(1) (1989): 10–36.

4. ‘The New Politics of the Welfare State’, Paul PiersonWorld Politics, 48(2) (1996): 143–179.

5. ‘Some Contradictions of the Modern Welfare State’, Claus OffeContradictions of the Welfare State, (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1984), pp. 147–161.

6. ‘Society, the State, Social Problems and Social Policy’, Vic George and Paul WildingIdeology and Social Welfare, (London: Routledge, 1976); pp. 1–20.

7. ‘Relief, Labor, and Civil Disorder: An Overview’, Francis Fox Piven andRichard ClowardRegulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare, (New York: VintageBooks, 1993): pp. 3–42.

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xiv Appendix of Sources

8. ‘The Changing Governance of Welfare: Recent Trends in Its PrimaryFunctions, Scale, and Modes of Coordination’, Bob JessopSocial Policy & Administration, 33(4) (2002): 348–359.

9. ‘The Professionalization of Everyone?’, Harold L. WilenskyThe American Journal of Sociology, LXX(2) (1964): 137–158.

10. ‘Am I My Brother’s keeper?’, Zygmunt BaumanEuropean Journal of Social Work, 3(1) (2000): 5–11.

11. ‘Professional Work’, Andrew AbbottThe System of Professions: An Essay on the Division of Expert Labor,(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988), pp. 35–58.

12. ‘The Professional Is Political’, Ann HartmanSocial Work, 38(4) (1993): 365–366, 504.

13. ‘Street-Level Bureaucrats as Policy Makers’, Michael LipskyStreet-level bureaucracy: Dilemmas of the individual in public services, (New York: Russell Sage Foundation Publications, 1980), pp. 13–25.

14. ‘Women and Social Welfare’, Gillian PascallP. Bean & S. MacPherson (eds), Approaches to Welfare (London: Routledgeand Kegan Paul, 1983), pp. 83–98.

15. ‘Gender and the Development of Welfare Regimes’, Jane LewisJournal of European Social Policy, 2(3) (1992): 159–173.

16. ‘The Concept of Social Care and the Analysis of Contemporary WelfareStates’, Mary Daly and Jane LewisBritish Journal of Sociology, 51(2) (2000): 281–298.

17. ‘Good-Enough Principles for Welfare’, Fiona WilliamsJournal of Sociology Policy, 28(1999): 667–687.

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18. ‘Democratic Subjects’, Barbara CruikshankThe Will to Empower: Democratic Citizens and Other Subject, (Ithaca:Cornell University Press, 1999), pp. xxx.

19. ‘Growth, Redistribution, and Welfare: Toward Social Investment’, James MidgleySocial Service Review, 73(1) (1999): 3–21.

20. ‘The Place of Social Capital in Understanding Social and EconomicOutcomes’, Michael WoolcockCanadian Journal of Policy Research, 2(1) (2001): 11–17.

21. ‘Is Social Work a Profession?’, Abraham FlexnerResearch on Social Work Practice, 11(2) (2001): 152–165.

22. ‘The Problem-Solving Work’, Helen Harris PerlmanSocial Casework: A Problem-Solving Process (Chicago: University of ChicagoPress, 1957), pp. 84–101.

23. ‘Is Casework Effective? A Review’, Joel FischerSocial Work, 18(1) (1973): 5–20.

24. ‘Conceptions of Social Work’, Juliet CheethamC. Crouch and A. A. Heath (eds), Social Research and Social Reform: Essaysin Honour of A. H. Halsey (London: Clarendon, 1992), pp. 35–68.

25. ‘The Life Model of Social Work Practice: An Overview’, Carel Germain andAlex GittermanThe Life Model of Social Work Practice: Advances in Theory and Practice(Third Edition) (Columbia University Press, 2008), pp. 71–111.

26. ‘Behavioral Social Work: Past, Present, and Future’, Eileen Gambrill Reasearch on Social Work Practice, 5(4) (1995): 460–484.

27. ‘Structural Family Therapy’, Salvador MinuchinFamilies and Family Therapy (New York: Routledge, 1997), pp. 1–15.

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xvi Appendix of Sources

28. ‘The Strengths Perspective in Social Work Practice: Extensions andCautions’, Dennis SaleebeySocial Work, 41(3) (1996): 296–305.

29. ‘Knowledge for Social Work’, Olive StevensonBritish Journal of Social Work, 1(2) (1971): 225–237.

30. ‘Boundaries of Social Work or Social Work of Boundaries?’, Andrew AbbottSocial Service Review, 69(1995): 545–562.

31. ‘Notes on the Form of Knowledge in Social Work’, Mark PhilpSociological Review, 37(2) (1979): 83–111.

32. ‘Many Ways of Knowing’, Ann HartmanSocial Work, 35(1) (1990): 3–4.

33. ‘The Knowledge Base of Social Work Practice: Theory, Wisdom, Analogue,or Art?’, Howard GoldsteinFamilies in Society, 71(1) (1990): 32–43.

34. ‘The Ethical Implications of Current Theoretical Developments in SocialWork’, Mel GrayBritish Journal of Social Work, 25(1) (1995): 55–70.

35. ‘Some Thoughts on the Relationship between Theory and Practice in andfor Social Work’, Nigel PartonBritish Journal of Social Work, 30(4) (2000): 449–463.

36. ‘Surface and Depth in Social-Work Practice’, David HoweN. Parton (ed.), Social Theory, Social Change and Social Work (London:Routledge, 1996), pp. 77–97.

37. ‘Social Work, Social Science and Practice Wisdom’, Michael SheppardBritish Journal of Social Work, 25(3) (1995): 265–293.

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38. ‘Reflections on the Assessment of Outcomes in Child Care’, Roy ParkerChildren & Society, 12(3) (2006): 192–201.

39. ‘Common Errors of Reasoning in Child Protection Work’, Eileen MunroChild Abuse & Neglect, 23(8) (1999): 745–758.

40. ‘Rethinking Empowerment’, Barbara Levy SimonJournal of Progressive Human Service, 1(1) (1987): 27–39.

41. ‘Empowerment and Oppression: An Indissoluble Pairing for ContemporarySocial Work’, David Ward and Audrey Mullender Critical Social Policy, 11(32) (1991): 21–30.

42. ‘Empowering Practice: Understanding and Managing User–WorkerProcesses’, Suzy Braye and Michael Preston-ShootEmpowering Practice in Social Care (Milton Keynes: Open UniversityPress,1995), pp. 125–143.

43. ‘Cutting Edge Issues in Social Work Research’, Ian F. ShawBritish Journal of Social Work, 33(1) (2003): 107–116.

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45. ‘A Code of Ethics for Social Work and Social Care Research’, Ian ButlerBritish Journal of Social Work, 32(2) (2002): 239–248.

46. ‘Research Note: Research and Empowerment’, Peter Beresford and Clare EvansBritish Journal of Social Work, 29(5) (1999): 671–677.

47. ‘Epistemology, Ontology and Methodology: What’s That Got to Do withSocial Work?’, Cathy Aymer and Toyin OkitikpiSocial Work Education, 19(1) (2000): 67–75.

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48. ‘The Social Work Context for Qualitative Research’, Ian F. Shaw and Nick GouldQualitative Research in Social Work (London: Sage Publishers, 2001), pp. 14–31.

49. ‘Does the Glove Really Fit? Qualitative Research and Clinical Social WorkPractice’, Deborah K. PadgettSocial Work, 43(4) (1998): 373–381.

50. ‘Theorizing from Practice: Towards an Inclusive Approach for Social WorkResearch’, Jan FookQualitative Social Work, 1(1) (2002): 79–95.

51. ‘Issues of Visibility and Colleague Relationships’, Andrew PithouseSocial Work: The Social Organisation of an Invisible Trade (Avebury:Aldershot, Hants, 1987), pp. 45–62.

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54. ‘Schön Shock: A Case for Reframing Reflection-in-action?’, Michael ErautTeachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 1(1) (1995): 9–22.

55. ‘There’s No Such Thing as Reflection’, Graham IxerBritish Journal of Social Work, 29(4) (1999): 513–527.

56. ‘Developing Empirically Based Models of Practice’, Betty J. Blythe and Scott BriarSocial Work, 30(6) (1985): 483–488.

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57. ‘Evidence-Based Social Care: Wheels off the Runway?’,Geraldine MacdonaldPublic Money & Management, 19(1) (1999): 25–32.

58. ‘Some Considerations on the Validity of Evidence-Based Practice in SocialWork’, Stephen A. WebbBritish Journal of Social Work, 31(1) (2001): 57–79.

59. ‘The Validity of Evidence-Based Practice in Social Work: A Reply toStephen Webb’, Brian SheldonBritish Journal of Social Work, 31(5) (2001): 801–809.

60. ‘Evidence-Based Practice: Counterarguments to Objections’, Leonard Gibbsand Eileen GambrillResearch on Social Work Practice, 12(3) (2002): 452–476.

61. ‘Evidence-Based Practice and Social Work’, C. Aaron McNeece and Bruce A. ThyerJournal of Evidence-Based Social Work, 1(1) (2004): 7–25.

62. ‘The Relationship between Qualitative and Quantitative Research:Paradigm Loyalty versus Methodological Eclecticism’, Martyn HammersleyJ. T. Richardson (ed.), Handbook of Qualitative Research Methods forPsychology and the Social Sciences (Oxford: Blackwell, 1996), pp. 159–174.

63. ‘Science, Research, and Social Work: Who Controls the Profession?’,H. Jacob KargerSocial Work, 28(3) (2001): 200–205.

64. ‘The Quest for Evidence-Based Practice?: We Are All Positivists!’,Bruce A. ThyerResearch on Social Work Practice, 18(4) (2008): 339–345.

65. ‘Evaluation with One Eye Closed: The Empiricist Agenda in Social WorkResearch’, Peter RaynorBritish Journal of Social Work, 14(1) (1984): 1–10.

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66. ‘The Limits of Positivism in Social Work Research’, David SmithBritish Journal of Social Work, 17(4) (1987): 401–416.

67. ‘Beyond Retroduction? – Hermeneutics, Reflexivity and Social WorkPractice’, Susan WhiteBritish Journal of Social Work, 27(5) (1997): 739–753.

68. ‘The Social Work Revolution’, Joel FischerSocial Work, 26(3) (1981): 199–207.

69. ‘Social Work Practice in the 21st Century’, Brian SheldonResearch on Social Work Practice, 8(5) (1999): 577–588.

70. ‘The Search for Identity: Defining Social Work – Past, Present, Future’,Margaret GibelmanSocial Work, 44(4) (1999): 298–310.

71. ‘The Movement of Social Work into Private Practice (And Away from the Poor)’, Harry Specht and Mark E. CourtneyUnfaithful Angels: How Social Work Has Abandoned Its Mission (New York: Free Press, 1994), pp. 106–129.

72. ‘Social Work in the University’, William M. EpsteinJournal of Social Work Education, 31(2) (1995): 281–292.

73. ‘Social Work at the Crossroads’, Mark LymberyBritish Journal of Social Work, 31(3) (2001): 369–384.

74. ‘The Future of Social Work as a Profession’, Leon GinsbergAdvances in Social Work, 6(1) (2005): 7–16.

75. ‘Social Work, Modernity and Post Modernity’, Graham B. McBeath andStephen A. WebbSocial Review, 39(4) (1991): 745–762.

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76. ‘Modernity, Postmodernity and Social Work’, David HoweBritish Journal of Social Work, 24(5) (1994): 513–532.

77. ‘Deprofessionalizing Social Work: Anti-Oppressive Practice, Competenciesand Postmodernism’, Lena DominelliBritish Journal of Social Work, 26(2) (1996): 153–175.

78. ‘‘Problematics of Government’, (Post) Modernity and Social Work’,Nigel PartonBritish Journal of Social Work, 24(1) (1994): 9–32.

79. ‘Parton, Howe and Postmodernity: A Critical Comment on MistakenIdentity’, Carole Smith and Susan WhiteBritish Journal of Social Work, 27(2) (1997): 275–295.

80. ‘Social Work’s ‘Electronic Turn’: Notes on the Deployment of Informationand Communication Technologies in Social Work with Children andFamilies’, Paul Michael GarrettCritical Social Policy, 25(4) (2005): 529–553.

81. ‘Mapping Child-Care Social Work in the Final Years of the TwentiethCentury: A Critical Response to the ‘Looking After Children’ System’,Paul Michael GarrettBritish Journal of Social Work, 29 (1999): 27–47.

82. ‘Tough Love: Social Work, Social Exclusion and the Third Way’, Bill JordanBritish Journal of Social Work, 31(4) (2001): 527–546.

83. ‘The Impact of Audit on Social Work Practice’, Eileen MunroBritish Journal of Social Work, 34(8) (2004): 1075–1095.

84. ‘Clinical Practice Guidelines: Should Social Work Develop Them?’,Matthew Owen Howard and Jeffrey M. JensonResearch on Social Work Practice, 9(3) (1999): 283–301.

85. ‘Interprofessionality in Health and Social Care: The Achilles’ Heel ofPartnership?’, Bob HudsonJournal of Interprofessional Care, 16(1) (2002): 7–17.

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86. ‘Service Users, Social Policy and the Future of Welfare’, Peter BeresfordCritical Social Policy, 21(4) (2001): 494–512.

87. ‘Service Users and Practitioners Reunited: The Key Component for SocialWork Reform’, Peter Beresford and Suzy CroftBritish Journal of Social Work, 34(1) (2004): 53–68.

88. ‘Professionalization in Social Work: The Challenge of Diversity’,Richard HugmanInternational Social Work, 39(2) (1996): 131–147.

89. ‘Issues in International Social Work: Resolving Critical Debates in theProfession’, James MidgleyJournal of Social Work, 1(1) (2001): 21–35.

90. ‘Local Orders and Global Chaos in Social Work’, Stephen A. WebbEuropean Journal of Social Work, 6(2) (2003): 191–204.

91. ‘Defining Social Work for the 21st Century: The International Federationof Social Workers’ Revised Definition of Social Work’, Isadora HareInternational Social Work, 47(3) (2004): 407–424.

92. ‘Dilemmas of International Social Work: Paradoxical Processes inIndigenisation, Universalism and Imperialism’, Mel GrayInternational Journal of Social Welfare, 14(2005): 231–238.

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