The Social Work Task Force has signalled its intent to come up with a new definition of social work to counter public misconceptions. Anabel Unity Sale reports What with the negative coverage that ...

Defining social work: five ways to explain to multidisciplinary colleagues what social work is October 25, 2006 in Adults, Children, Young people The government’s new Options for Excellence report ...

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It argues that in order to match the liberating mission of the profession, social work research should defy the dominant traditions of social science research. The paper first outlines a definition of ...