ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the relevance to contemporary social work, especially in Britain. It outlines the history and changing context of professional social work in the Anglo-American tradition. The chapter discusses the contribution of the theory of 'site' and 'social work situation' to comparable social work possibilities in the administrative and theoretical contexts of the post-Munro present. Social work as an activity has become an increasingly contested domain and so has the theory considered appropriate to it. Discourse on critical practice, anti-oppressive practice and community work, once antagonistic to casework, tends now to be collaborative in tone, at least in some quarters. The more recent discourse of critical theory and anti-oppressive social work, however, together with modern revisions of psychosocial theory and other developments, hold out the promise of dialogue and rapprochement, to which the theory of the introjected site may now contribute.
