Pirkko Liisa Rauhala: 3 books
Social Change and Social Work
The Changing Societal Conditions of Social Work in Time and Place
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Social Change and Social Work discusses and examines how social work is challenged by social, political and economic tendencies going on in current societies. The authors ask how social work as a discipline and practice is encountering global and local transformations. Divided into three parts, topics...
by Anna Metteri, Teppo Kroger, Anneli Pohjola
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Overcome the challenges facing social workers today with international guidance
Social Work Approaches in Health and Mental Health from Around the Globe is a valuable stepping stone toward an understanding of the diversity of methods utilized in social work for community health services. This...
Towards Glocal Social Work in the Era of Compressed Modernity
Towards an Era of Distorted Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
This book addresses the change of social work in the frame of modernisation. Through Mary Richmond’s classical idea of social work, the book seeks to set current societal trends affecting social work into the context of a long historical line, opening spaces for the new debates within the social...