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Social work and disadvantage : addressing the roots of stigma through association / edited by Peter Burke and Jonathan Parker.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social work with people with disabilities.
- Sociology of disability.
- Stigma (Social psychology).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (178 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Social Work and Disadvantage explains the impact of stigmatization on siblings, families and workers in the caring professions and its consequences for the people it affects and for society as a whole. Contributors provide evidence from research and professional practice on transferability of health and social problems.
- Contents:
- COVER; Social Work and Disadvantage; Contents; IntroductionPeter Burke and Jonathan Parker; 1Disadvantage and Stigma:A Theoretical Framework forAssociated ConditionsPeter Burke; 2Looked After Children, their Parents,Disadvantage and StigmaCatherine Deverell; 3Childhood Disabilities andDisadvantage: Family ExperiencesPeter Burke and Benedict Fell; 4A Drug User in the Family: BetweenNeed, Dependency and DesirePhilip Guy; 5HIV/AIDS: ChallengingStigma by AssociationLiz Walker; 6Ageing against the Grain:Gay Men and LesbiansElizabeth Price
- 7Constructing Dementia and DementiaCare: Disadvantage and DailyPractices in a Day Care Setting1Jonathan Parker8Living with Chronic Illness: TheExample of Parkinson's DiseaseMargaret Holloway; 9Social Work, Disadvantageby Association andAnti-Oppressive PracticeJonathan Parker; 10Disadvantage as an AssociativeConcept; Reflections and SomeFurther ConsiderationsPeter Burke; THE CONTRIBUTORS; SUBJECT INDEX; AUTHOR INDEX
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9786610929337
- 9781280929335
- 1280929332
- 9781846425554
- 1846425557
- OCLC:
- 437181929
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