Rights-Based Social Work and the Named Social Worker for Adults with Learning Disabilities: A Policy Intervention 50 Years in the Making.
There has been a renewed interest in professional and academic discourse in the reconceptualisation of social work with adults as a human rights-based approach. This is compatible with the social model of disability, which philosophically adult social workers make claims to align with. This was rece...
| Publicado en: | British Journal of Social Work Vol. 51; no. 4; pp. 1259 - 1277 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Jun2021
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