The new social work radicalism

Iain Ferguson

Abstract


On a cold January morning in 2017, a group of social workers, service users, claimants, psychologists, counselors and others gathered outside the annual meeting of the British Psychological Society (BPS) taking place that year in Liverpool. Those present represented a wide variety of grassroots organisations including the Social Work Action Network, Psychologists against Austerity and the Mental Health Resistance Network (SWAN). They were there to protest the BPS’s involvement in the UK government’s use of “psycho-compulsion” as a tool for getting people off benefits.


Keywords


radical social work; neoliberalism

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.11157/anzswj-vol29iss2id404

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