Policy change is a core goal of community social workers. This study aims to identify the
motivational and facilitating factors associated with community social workers' engagement …

Rather than being seen simply as social policy implementors, in recent decades there has
been increasing recognition of social workers as professionals with unique knowledge and …

Policy practice (PP) refers to the on-the-job activities of social workers (SWs) intended to
influence the design of public policies. Despite the importance attributed to this type of …

Social work is strongly committed to furthering social justice, among others, by incorporating
efforts to influence policies into social work practice. However, there is little empirical data on …

Do street-level bureaucrats exercise discretion to encourage clients' political participation? If
so, how, and in what way is it demonstrated? This study examines these questions …

Over the past few decades, powerful economic, political and cultural forces have
restructured the welfare state and social work practice. In response, there have been calls in …

Anti-oppressive social work has become a central topic among social work scholars, guiding
the analysis of practices, services, and policies. Both theoretical and empirical studies …

This chapter outlines the development of social work and social work education in Italy. It
shows how social work education developed after World War II, during the post-war process …

Whereas some studies have addressed the conditions and practices required to infuse
critical notions into the organizational context of public social services, there is a paucity of …

Social workers' policy engagement has been the subject of growing interest in the social
work discourse in recent years. In order to contribute to theoretical and empirical knowledge …