Social Work In Europe: Educating for Change Author:Editors: Karen Lyons & Sue Lawrence offering a systematic global comparison

offering a systematic global comparison of the professional features of social work

and education

its implementation in the managerialist 1990s frustrated the flexible implementation of community care

has sought to link ‘public issues’ and ‘private troubles’ (or

It brings together leading experts from across a range of disciplines

Social Work In Europe: Educating for Change Author:Editors: Karen Lyons & Sue Lawrence offering a systematic global comparisonSocial work is a diverse and contested activity in which national traditions and cultural factors affect its form and its adaptation to changing political and socio economic conditions. However, the education and research which underpin this professional field are increasingly open to influences from outside local and national boundaries. Social Work in Europe takes a thematic approach to an analysis of such external influences and the learning