Social Theory, Social Change and Social Work

Social work is currently experiencing an important period of changein itspriorities organization and daytoday practices. Increasingly notions ofcare management ... » 

Social work is currently experiencing an important period of changein itspriorities organization and daytoday practices. Increasingly notions ofcare management monitoring and evaluation and interagency coordination havebecome more dominant requiring new skills and new forms of knowledge to theextent that the image of the generic social worker working in the unifiedagency and drawing upon casework informed by particular forms of psychologyand displaying particular skills in human relationships seems outmoded.Social Theory Social Change and Social Work has two interrelated themes.First to account for and analyze current changes in social work and secondlyto assess how much recent developments in social theory can contribute to theirinterpretation. «