Social Work

Jan Fook has social work degrees from the University of New South Wales and the University of Sydney and PhD from the University of Southampton and is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (UK). She has had a long career as a social work educator and a Professor of Education and has also worked in continuing education and the interprofessional field in Australia, the UK, Canada, Norway and the USA. She is currently Professor and Chair of the Department of Social Work at the University of Vermont. She is best known for her work on critical social work, practice research and critical reflection and has published extensively in these areas. She has travelled widely delivering lectures and workshops on critical reflection.

Part I: Critical Potential and Current Challenges
Chapter 1: The Critical Tradition of Social Work
Chapter 2: Current Contexts of Practice: Challenges and Possibilities
Part II: Rethinking Ideas
Chapter 3: New Ways of Knowing
Chapter 4: Power
Chapter 5: Discourse, Language and Narrative
Chapter 6: Identity and Difference
Part III: Redeveloping Practices
Chapter 7: Critical Deconstruction and Reconstruction
Chapter 8: Empowerment
Chapter 9: Problem Conceptualisation and Assessment
Chapter 10: Narrative Strategies
Chapter 11: Contextual Practice: Strategies for Working in and with Contexts
Chapter 12: Ongoing Learning