Reconstitution of social work : towards a moral conception of social work practice / Yuk-ying Ho, Sun-pong Yuen, editors.
This unique volume is the first book-length explication of hermeneutics in social work. It attempts to clarify and reconstruct the moral basis of social work. Against the mainstream current of doing social work with the technical-rational outlook, Ho and Yuen argue that value constitutes the very co...
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Singapore ; London :
World Scientific,
2010.
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Table of Contents:
- Towards a hermeneutic conception of social work practice (1): the myths of positivism and the strong thesis of value involvement
- Towards a hermeneutic conception of social work practice (2): social work skills and moral practice
- A hermeneutic study of the mentally ill "self"
- The meaning of cancer from a hermeneutic perspective
- Critical theory and community development
- The moral basis of social work management.