Social work and poverty : attitudes and actions / Monica Dowling.
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TextSeries: Routledge revivals: Publisher: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018Description: 1 online resourceContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780429437724; 0429437722Subject(s): Welfare recipients -- Great Britain -- Finance, Personal | Social workers -- Great Britain -- Attitudes | Income maintenance programs -- Great Britain | Social workers -- Training of -- Great Britain | POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Security | POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Services & WelfareGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 362.5/8 LOC classification: HV40.8.G7 | D68 2018ebOnline resources: EBSCOhost Summary: This much-needed volume powerfully re-evaluates attitudes to the 'deserving and 'undeserving' poor and aims to investigate social workers' attitudes and actions towards poverty issues, social service users who have needed financial help and to question whether learning about poverty is an integrated part of social work students' training and social workers' in-service training. Monica Dowling has experience of being a social work student and social worker, as well as a social work teacher and researcher. In an age when increasing numbers of undergraduate and postgraduate students are unemployed and living on benefits, Dowling reveals the true picture of the people who end up on the poverty line, reconnecting social work theory and practice.
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First published 1999 by Ashgate Publishing.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This much-needed volume powerfully re-evaluates attitudes to the 'deserving and 'undeserving' poor and aims to investigate social workers' attitudes and actions towards poverty issues, social service users who have needed financial help and to question whether learning about poverty is an integrated part of social work students' training and social workers' in-service training. Monica Dowling has experience of being a social work student and social worker, as well as a social work teacher and researcher. In an age when increasing numbers of undergraduate and postgraduate students are unemployed and living on benefits, Dowling reveals the true picture of the people who end up on the poverty line, reconnecting social work theory and practice.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 23, 2019).
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