Social Work for Lazy Radicals

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Radical practice needn’t require going on marches and signing petitions. Written in an accessible and engaging language, this exciting new book provides a 3 stage model of radical practice for students and social workers who are committed to ‘doing the right thing’ and developing their own framework for practice.

Be proud to be a lazy radical! This textbook makes the case for a radical approach to social work that can be embraced by everyone. It's an approach based on real empathy and an understanding of oppression, of managerialism, of the moral heart of social work, of humanism and of the effects of neoliberal hegemony. Jane Fenton provides a model of radical practice for students and social workers who are committed to ‘doing the right thing’, and who want to develop their own framework for practice.

This book will appeal to students who are activists, but want to frame their individual-level practice in a meaningful way, and to those who are non-activist and non-political but simply want to be good social workers. It will give a political and moral understanding of social work practice and lead to confident, value-based and enjoyable social work.

• Provides an easy to follow 3 stage model of radical social work practice
• In this age of austerity and neoliberalism, this book – and the skills of self-reliance it develops – is more needed than ever before
• Can be used across modules on social work programmes and by practitioners 

Brief summary of primary market

Social Work students, at undergraduate and postgraduate level, taking modules on Ethics & Values and Professional Practice (in addition to others).

Brief summary of secondary market

Qualified, practising social workers.

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Jane Fenton

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