… Sexuality is not an invisible dimension within social work. Social workers are constantly
engaged … Indeed, some of the most fundamental and frequent concerns of social workers involve …

… of professional work with 'clients' and inter-agency efficiency. In addition, social work has …
constructed images of social work practices within the terms of discourses of social control. Put …

… In this paper I intend to explore the theme of discourse in social work by plugging into the
recent sociological critique of contracts in social work initiated by Rojek and Collins (1987) and …

… an empirical study, a close reading of a representative sample of social work texts. We
argue that social work resilience discourses, paradoxically, have been productive of a renewed …

… and values of social work as a profession. Yet this method has been underutilized in social
work research. This paper provides an orientation for social work scholars seeking to use …

… The lack of positive discourse analysis (PDA) cripples our … positive of course depends
on taking a stand, and positively valu… Their work rewards any amount of positive discourse …

… social work educators are increasingly incorporating the language of diversity into their
pedagogical repertoire, are there common understandings in social work … social work discourse …

… more social workers to lean more towards critical social work when … social workers to work
against oppressive practices that are often disguised and justified within dominant discourses…

… of their work, in terms of what they are trying to achieve, and to encourage a reorientation
in critical thinking to what we might call Positive Discourse Analysis (PDA) – work which …

… The answers to them have real implications for social work education, research and practice…
discourse in social work, this article first looks at the indigenization movement in the social …