Complexity In Social Work Av Rick Hood

Designed to help students think critically about the skills and knowledge they need to understand and tackle inequality, and provide meaningful help to those people most in need.

In this book, researcher Matthew Gibson reviews the role of shame and pride in social work, providing invaluable new insights from the first study undertaken into the role of these emotions within professional practice.

Social workers spend their time trying to ease social suffering. They encounter the extreme casualties of social inequality: the victims of poverty, illness, addiction, and abuse; they work with abusers and offenders; and operate in the space between...