ABSTRACT
Social Work in a Global Context: Issues and Challenges endeavours to explore and depict the myriad shades of social work as conceptualised and practised in different parts of the world. With chapters from North America to New Zealand and several countries in between, the book makes a modest attempt at examining and critically analysing some of the current social work issues and policy drivers, and how these impact and inform local practice in a particular country context. It contemplates and reviews emerging trends, and issues that influence social work and the diverse challenges faced by social work practitioners, policy makers and academics in positioning social work as an internationally relevant profession fit for the twenty-first century.
