The Haunt of Misery

Critical essays in social work and helping

Chris Rojek, Geraldine Peacock, Stewart Collins (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

201 Seiten

2025
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-63509-5 (ISBN)

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First published in 1989, The Haunt of Misery offers social workers and students critical essays for critical times. Faced with unreflective wealth creation and the fragmentation of the counterculture, social work is perceived as failing to meet the needs of the client. Many social workers are left feeling angry, stranded and confused. Written by academics and professionals, the essays range over social work and unemployment, the crisis of AIDS and HIV infection, drug use, client collectives, the elderly, the ethnic minorities, professionalism, and self-management. The authors offer constructive criticism of existing social work practice and suggest radical and exciting issues for the profession in the 1990s and beyond.

Chris Rojek, Geraldine Peacock, and Stewart Collins

List of Contributors Editors’ note Introduction 1. Women and men without work 2. Finding the right response 3. ‘Mad, bad and dangerous to know’ 4. Users fight back 5. The sound of silence 6. Social work with black people 7. Mental or experimental? Social workers, clients and psychiatry 8. Social work and self-management Name index Subject index

Erscheinungsdatum	04.10.2025
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Revivals
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	380 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-032-63509-6 / 1032635096
ISBN-13	978-1-032-63509-5 / 9781032635095
Zustand	Neuware