| Humanistic Social Work: Core Principles in Practice Contributor(s): Payne, Malcolm (Author) |
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ISBN: 0190616067 ISBN-13: 9780190616069 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $69.29 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Social Work |
| Physical Information: (0.71 lbs) 238 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this exciting new book, Malcolm Payne draws on core principles of social work to articulate a new humanistic practice for the twenty-first century. Humanistic Social Work: Core Principles in Practice presents a profession that aims at positive fulfillment in social relationships, exploring and reconciling artistic, creative, and spiritual avenues with evidence-based practice approaches and postmodernist understandings of human growth and knowledge development. Showing how practitioners can embody flexible, skilled, and knowledge-based responses to the complexities of human individuality, Payne reorients the aims of social work as an accountability to clients' individual self-fulfillment, enabled by community and social development. Humanistic Social Work is a reaffirming treatise on the strengths rather than the deficits of the individual, the innovations rather than the imperfections of the social work profession. |