Developing critical social work in theory and in practice: child protection and communicative reason

Child and Family Social Work

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 315-324

  Spratt, ^a   Houston, ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

child protection; critical theory; ideology; re focusing; social construction

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; CHILD; CHILD CARE; CHILD PROTECTION; CRITICAL THEORY; HUMAN; IDEOLOGY; SOCIAL WORK;

EID: 84937182720     PISSN: 13567500     EISSN: 13652206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2206.1999.00130.x     Document Type: Article

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