New Directions in Social Work Practice 2/e

Kieron Hatton, PhD is a social work academic with interests in social/community work, youth inclusion and social pedagogy who has presented papers at national and international conferences and published widely around these topics. Publications include three books-New Directions in Social Work Practice (2008), Social Pedagogy in the UK: Theory and Practice (2013) and New Directions in Social Work Practice (2nd ed., 2015).

Introduction A Framework for Understanding Contemporary Social Work Social work, Community Work and Social Change Squaring the Circle- From the Individual to the Collective? The Voluntary and Independent Sectors: Communitarianism, the 'Big Society' and the potential for social action Involving, integrating or ignoring? Service users, carers and social work Developing new forms of practice: Professionalism, partnerships and social pedagogy International social work: European and international reflections on the challenges to social work in selected European countries Conclusion: New parameters for social work