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One of the biggest challenges facing the social work profession is how to square professional practice with the ‘circle’ of organisational constraints. The break-up of social work into its constituent tasks and the increasingly proceduralised nature of the work of agency practitioners are two factors which lead back to Brewer and Lait’s question of 1980, Can Social Work Survive? (Brewer and Lait, 1980).
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Doel, M. (1994) ‘Task-centred work’, in Hanvey, C. and Philpot, T. (eds) Practising Social Work (London, Routledge). Offers a brief overview of the task-centred method.
Doel, M. and Marsh, P. (1992) Task-Centred Social Work (Aldershot, Ashgate). Offers a detailed account of the task-centred model in contemporary British practice.
Reid, W. J. (1992) Task Strategies: An Empirical Approach to Social Work (New York, Columbia University Press).
Tolson, E. R., Reid, W. J. and Garvin, C. D. (1994) Generalist Practice: A Task Centered Approach (New York, Columbia University Press). These two books provide an interesting account of recent developments in the task-centred model, especially with regard to its position as a generalist practice method and the development of task-centred techniques.
Reid, W. J. and Epstein, L. (1972) Task-centred Casework (New York, Columbia University Press). Allows you to understand the origins of the model by returning to first text.
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Doel, M. (1998). Task-centred work. In: Adams, R., Dominelli, L., Payne, M., Campling, J. (eds) Social Work. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-14400-6_16
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