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Oct 1, 2012 · What this book does is give space to respected academics and practitioners to express their own narrative journeys into social constructionist ideas. What also come through strongly are alternatives for practice thinking that allow practitioners to challenge dominant discourses and, as most contributors argue, strengthen service users' narratives.
- Joe Smeeton
- 2012
This book responds with rich, illustrative descriptions of how social constructionist thinking has inspired practice approaches, illuminating the diversity and creative potential of practices that draw on social constructionist ideas.
May 30, 2023 · Social Constructionism, and It Relevance to Health. Social Constructionism’s position that knowledge is socially constructed has implications for the universal truths found in a positivist reality, including those that inform medical science (Nettleton 2021).
My introduction to social constructionist ideas was very much theoretical and, primarily, sociological via my introduction to the book by Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann (1966) called The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge.
The Social Construction of Social Work Theory. Chapter. pp 1–38. Cite this chapter. Download book PDF. Malcolm Payne. 827 Accesses. Abstract. This is the starting point: at this moment, somewhere in the world, ‘clients’ are struggling into an office to meet with a ‘social worker’.
- Malcolm Payne
- 1991
Mar 16, 2018 · This overview of social constructionism begins with a consideration of the influential work of Malcolm Spector and John I. Kitsuse, whose book Constructing Social Problems inspired a wide variety of studies addressing how social problems are “constructed.”
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Oct 10, 2019 · This entry examines some of the important ways in which constructionist ideas inform the orientation of the therapist and then describes several important effects of constructionism on specific therapeutic practices.
