This book challenges this omission and provides new insights into how social work has engaged with Irish children and their families, historically and to the present day.

... Remaking Social Work with Children and Families : A Critical Discussion of the Modernisation of Social Care , London , Routledge . Gibbons , J. , Gallagher , B. , Bell , 282 Youth in context : frameworks , settings and encounters.

In Social Work and Social Theory, Paul Michael Garrett seeks to bring the profession into dialogue with the anticapitalist movement and encourages a new engagement with theorists such as Antonio Gramsci, Pierre Bourdieu, and Nancy Fraser.

... Remaking social work with children and families : a critical discussion on the " modernisation " of social care / Paul Michael Garrett . New York : Routledge , 2003. p . cm . Includes bibliographical references and index . [ HV751.A6G37 ...

Focusing on issues for good practice in social work and social work education, this book is essential reading for students and academics of social work and social policy.

This book outlines the development of social work with children and families over the period in question, drawing on the author's unique practice experience and his extensive writings.