Human Rights and Social Work
Towards Rights-Based Practice

Human Rights and Social Work helps students and practitioners understand how human rights concepts underpin social work.

Jim Ife (Author), Karen Soldati? (Author), Linda Briskman (Author)

9781108829700, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 12 July 2022

300 pages
24.3 x 17 x 1.4 cm, 0.52 kg

Human Rights and Social Work: Towards Rights-Based Practice helps students and practitioners understand how human rights concepts underpin the social work profession and inform their practice. This book examines the three generations of human rights and the systems of oppression that prevent citizens from participating in society as equals. It explores a range of topics, from ethics and ethical social work practice, to deductive and inductive approaches to human rights, and global and local human rights discourses. The language, processes, structures and theories of social work that are fundamental to the profession are also discussed. This edition features case studies exploring current events, movements and human rights crises, including the Black Lives Matter movement, the Northern Territory Emergency Response, and homelessness among LGBTIQA+ young people. This edition is accompanied by online resources for both students and instructors. Human Rights and Social Work is an indispensable guide for social work students and practitioners.

1. Human rights in a globalised world
2. Human rights: Beyond traditional formulations
3. Public and private human rights
4. Culture and human rights
5. Human rights and human needs
6. Human rights and obligations
7. Ethics and human rights
8. Participation in the human rights discourse
9. Constructing human rights for social work practice
10. Achieving human rights through social work
11. Respecting human rights in social work practice
12. Conclusion: Prospects for human rights practice.

Subject Areas: Social work [JKSN]