1st Edition

Social Work Values An Enquiry

By Noel Timms Copyright 1983
170 Pages
by Routledge

170 Pages
by Routledge

170 Pages
by Routledge

Originally published in 1983 Social Work Values is a sustained enquiry about the present situation of social work. It describes the treatment of social work values in the social work literature and in research, and pursues three distinct avenues towards an improvement on the present unsatisfactory treatment. First, the book introduces and encourages more philosophical reflection on the... Read more

Acknowledgements

1. An Overview

2. The Function and Treatment of ‘Values’ in Social Work

3. Conscience in Social Work: Toward the Practice of Moral Judgement

4. Traditional Values and Neglected Disvalues

5. Three Controversies

6. Values, Valuations and Value Judgement I

7. Values, Valuations and Value Judgement II

8. Conclusions

Notes

References

Subject Index

Name Index

Biography

Noel Timms