Social Work as a Profession: A Comparative Cross-national Perspective Author:Editors: Idit Weiss & Penelope Welbourne service users agree it offers

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Social Work as a Profession: A Comparative Cross-national Perspective Author:Editors: Idit Weiss & Penelope Welbourne service users agree it offersThis volume is a pioneering study, offering a systematic global comparison of the professional features of social work. Intended for students, researchers, teachers and social work practitioners with an interest in the professional characteristics of social work and the sociology of the professions, it provides a broadly based examination of trends in social work in diverse social and political contexts. The book takes a cross national comparative