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(Re)shaping social work — an Australian case study
Author(s)	Catherine McDonald, Lesley Chenoweth
Journal title	British Journal of Social Work, vol 39, no 1, January 2009
Pages	pp 144-160
Source	http://bjsw.oxfordjournals.org
Keywords	Social work ; Social welfare ; Social policy ; Australia.
Annotation	Contemporary policy development via various nationally contingent processes of welfare reform poses significant challenges to social work. This paper explores the initial impact on one group of generalist social workers in working in the Australian income support agency - Centrelink. Positioning welfare reform within a theoretical framework of institutional change, the authors suggest that the associated policy developments have the capacity to seriously destabilise social work, particularly in that they promote values and rationalities at odds with those assumed by the profession. These assumptions are explored through exploratory empirical engagement with the Centrelink social workers, the results of which suggest that all social workers in those national contexts experiencing the same policy orientation have significant reason to be concerned. (KJ/RH).
Accession Number	CPA-090304213 A
Classmark	IG: TY: TM2: 7YA
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