Clinical Work and Social Action: An Integrative Approach develops a paradigm for social work and human services practice that integrates clinical work and social action. Social workers, clinicians, and educators will explore the contradictions that exist between values, theory, and practice and create a model of practice that reduces or eliminates these contradictions.

This book seeks to develop a paradigm for social work and human services practice that integrates clinical work and social action. The political implications of social work are discussed, with specific application of Paulo Freire's ideas about dialogical praxis. Discussion includes case material related to work with people of color, work with oppre