MAKING TRANSPARENT THE EMBODIED LIFE AND SKILLED KNOW-HOW OF SOCIAL WORK: PRACTICE AND RESEARCH

Social Work is at its core a qualitative, life-centered practice, where assessments and interventions take place in the interconnected worlds and experiences of client and family, and in the engaged, interpretive and reflective position of social worker. The understanding of social work as a practice of advocacy and experience is masked by the positivist research agendas of social work departments, institutional policy and research entities that...