Sustaining Social Work ─ Between Power and Powerlessness

This book is a companion and source of support for social workers who are struggling with the tensions of practice in an unsettled profession. Using the latest social theory to examine core practical challenges and issues of the social work role, the authors put forward a model of sustainable and meaningful day-to-day practice.

Dr Robbie Duschinsky is Senior Lecturer in Social Work at Northumbria University UK and Visiting Lecturer in Psychoanalysis at University College London, UK. He is a member of the Editorial Board of theJournal of Gender Studies, Public Administration Research and the International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society. His previous publications include Foucault, the Family & Politics (co-edited with Leon A. Rocha) and Juliet Mitchell and the Lateral Axis: Psychoanalysis and Feminism in the 21st Century (co-edited with Susan Walker), both published by Palgrave Macmillan.

Dr Sue Lampitt is Principal Lecturer in Social Work at Northumbria University, UK. She is Programme Leader and Admissions Tutor for the MA Social Work and leads modules on Interpersonal Skills, Research Informed Social Work and Social Work Dissertations. She co-ordinated the Hong Kong Franchise from 2005-2007.

Susan Bell is Director of Social Work Programmes at Northumbria University, with primary responsibility for the management of pre- and post-qualifying courses, including teaching and learning enhancement and quality assurance processes.