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Governing risk : care and control in contemporary social work / Mark Hardy.

By: Material type: TextLanguage: English Publisher: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015Description: vi, 221 pages 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780230364158
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 361.3 23/swe
Summary: "Drawing on Foucault's later work on governmentality, this book traces the effects of 'the rise of risk' on contemporary social work practice. Focusing on two 'domains' of practice - mental health social work and probation work - it analyses the ways in which risk thinking has affected social work's aims and objectives, methods and approaches. It critically interrogates the claim that the logic of actuarialsim is implicated in a shift from 'care' to 'control' and argues the case for a distinctive approach to understanding and undertaking social work which does justice to the reality of contemporary practice"-- Provided by publisher.
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"Drawing on Foucault's later work on governmentality, this book traces the effects of 'the rise of risk' on contemporary social work practice. Focusing on two 'domains' of practice - mental health social work and probation work - it analyses the ways in which risk thinking has affected social work's aims and objectives, methods and approaches. It critically interrogates the claim that the logic of actuarialsim is implicated in a shift from 'care' to 'control' and argues the case for a distinctive approach to understanding and undertaking social work which does justice to the reality of contemporary practice"-- Provided by publisher.