The Professional Task in Welfare Practice

First Published in 1998. This is Volume VIII of an eighteen volume library of Sociology on Public Policy, Welfare and Social Work and includes a study on the professional task in welfare practice. The book covers objectives of the welfare professions and gives guidance in this vocation, techniques, training and skills and comments on the themes of reassurance, faith, political commitment and reform, as well as the concept of treatment in non-medical settings.