Social Work and Disability Simcock Hardback Polity Press 9780745670195

Social Work and DisabilityAuthor(s): Peter Simcock, Rhoda Castle\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Polity Press\nISBN-13: 9780745670195, 978-0745670195\nSynopsis\nSocial Work and Disability offers a contemporary and critical exploration of social work practice with people with physical and sensory impairments, an area that has previously been marginalized within both practice and academic literature. It explores how social work practice can, and indeed does, contribute to the promotion of disabled peoples rights and the securing of positive outcomes in their lives.\n\n The book begins by exploring the ways in which disability is understood and how this informs policy and practice. Opening with a thought-provoking account of the lived experience of a disabled person using social work services, it goes on to critically analyse theory, policy and contemporary legislative change. Inequality, oppression and diversity are the focus of the secon.