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Engaging with Social Work A Critical Introduction

Authors

Christine Morley
, Queensland University of Technology,
Phillip Ablett
, Queensland University of Technology,
Selma Macfarlane
, Deakin University, Victoria
Published 2025

Description

Social work practitioners must be prepared to respond to emerging social problems in a rapidly changing world. Engaging with Social Work provides an introduction to critical social work, helping students to cultivate their own understanding of the structures and discourses of oppression and disadvantage, while exploring the role of the social worker. The third edition contains updated content on emerging social issues, including the COVID-19 pandemic, the climate crisis, broken systems – such as aged care and child protection, increasing…

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Key features

  • Provides an integrated critical perspective to practising social work and encourages the reader to challenge dominant social discourses and to consider their own personal values, biases and assumptions
  • Enables readers to develop an understanding of the structures and discourses of oppression and disadvantage and explore the role of the social worker in overcoming these issues
  • Updated to include content on emerging social issues, including the COVID-19 pandemic, the climate crisis and decolonisation of social work

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