Social Work With Disabled People

by Michael (Mike) Oliver, Bob Sapey

This classic text has been essential reading for students and professionals in the field of social work and disability for twenty years. Extensively revised and updated, the third edition examines the ways in which disabled people have increasingly been able to manage and develop their own services. It reconstructs social work practice in the light of these and the latest policy changes, stressing throughout the importance to practice of thinking critically about the welfare response to disability.

Genres: Social Work

224 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1991

About the author

Michael J. Oliver, born 3 Feb. 1945, is Professor of Disability Studies, at the University of Greenwich.

Formerly he taught in the School of Education Studies at Thames Polytechnic, in London.

Oliver is a disabled academic and political activist. He is a founding council member of the British Council of Disabled People. To date he holds the only professorship of disability studies in Britain. Oliver has published numerous books on disability issues.