The Author believe that social work and human services professionals can see great
outcomes when they work with the inherent strengths of individuals, family groups and …

Objective This article describes empirical results of the views of child protection workers,
parents and children along different dimensions including interpretation of engagement …

This paper is based on the development of a framework that conceptualises forms of power
in social work research. Its aim is to encourage readers to critically reflect on potentially …

Purpose This study aims to acknowledge that most Indonesian small and medium
enterprises (SMEs) experience slow growth. It highlighted that this sluggishness is because …

This book is an update of the book that was first published in 2004. Based on both formal
and unsolicited feedback we have received over the years, we have kept to the structure and …

This article sets out to critically examine whether and how different ideas of (radical and
liberal) empowerment are embedded in policy documents and texts pertaining to the …

Over the last decades, empowerment has become one of the defining concepts of twenty-
first-century social work practice. Many studies have set out to show its benefits, highlighting …

Since the 1970s, the construct of resilience has become detached from its original context of
trauma and reassembled as a normative behavior, patterned after society's dominant class …

In the helping professions, codes of ethics and decision-making models have been the
primary vehicles for determining what constitutes ethical practice. These strategies are …

This paper arises from a transnational research network investigating social work education.
University based social work programmes from four European countries (Ireland, Italy …