First published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

UK contributors: Noel Timms, Professor of Social WOrk, University of Sheffield; Michael Bayley, lecturer in Social Administration, Sheffield; Mike Simpkin, GP attached social worker, Sheffield; Eric Sainsbury, Professor of Social Administration, University of Sheffield; Malcolm Payne, Head of Applied Community Studies, Manchester Polytechnic; Terry Bamford, Director of Social Services, Co. Armagh; Olive Stevenson, Professor of Social Work Studies, University of Nottingham; Juliet Cheetham, Professor of Social Work, University of Stirling; Stuart Etherington, London.