Handbook on Intersectionality and Social Work

Bernard, Claudia; Firmin, Carlene; Keating, Frank

Handbook on Intersectionality and Social Work

Edited by Claudia Bernard, Carlene Firmin and Frank Keating

Abstract: The Handbook on Intersectionality and Social Work, presents diverse perspectives on the systemic inequalities that impact social work across the globe. The Handbook examines the conceptual and analytical terrain of intersectionality and the insights it presents for social work practice, pedagogy and research.

Keywords: Intersectional Approaches; Social Work; Systemic Inequalities; Multiple Social Locations; Practice Tools; Welfare Practices (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
ISBN: 9781035324453
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Chapters in this book:

Introduction: Handbook on Intersectionality and Social Work: Claudia Bernard, Carlene Firmin and Frank Keating
Rights, knowledge and skills for intersectional social work: Kish Bhatti-Sinclair
Legal frameworks and scope to apply intersectionality: children's services: Anna Gupta
Legal frameworks and scope to apply intersectionality: adult services: Trish Hafford-Letchfield
Critical and intersectional approaches in social policy: uses for social work: Joe Whelan
Intersectionality and the matrix of coloniality: Lisa Werkmeister Rozas
Towards an intersectional approach to social work pedagogy and learning: Prospera Tedam
Intersectional social work responses to criminalisation and criminalising systems: Patrick Williams and Lauren Wroe
Educational exclusion and social work: an intersectional lens: Roma Thomas
Social work within a hostile environment: intersectional approaches to recognising the (potential) vulnerability of young male refugees: Muireann Ní Raghallaigh
Intersectionality as an antidote to coloniality in social work and family therapy: Rhea V. Almeida and José Miguel Paez
Arab-Palestinians in Israel: poverty, social work, and intersectionality: Michal Krumer-Nevo, Ensherach Khoury and Limor Lotan
Methods for developing intersectional approaches to structural social work: from advocacy to critical reflection: Tina Mattsson
“The now is a whole make-up of the past”: intersectionality and Black sexual minority men within social work contexts: Lance Keene
A rationale for social work interventions into hate relationships: Catherine Donovan, John Clayton and Stephen Macdonald
Where did context go? Revisiting patch, community, and locality models of social and youth work through an intersectional lens: Rick Bowler
Reframing child protection social worker talk about mothers who use substances: providing safer contexts for them and their children: Eileen Joy and Suzette Jackson
Contextual Safeguarding: one entry point to intersectional social work with adolescents: Carlene Firmin and Patriche Bentick
An intersectional understanding of child abuse and neglect: Claudia Bernard
Child victims of modern slavery: making sense of commercial child sexual exploitation through an intersectionality lens: Pearson Nkhoma
Applying intersectionality to interventions with harmful practices: Geetanjali Gangoli and Lihan Miao
Intersectionality and care experience: Autumn Roesch-Marsh and Maryam Ishaq
Intersectional perspectives on young people's transitions from out-of-home care: Rajendra Rambajue and Christopher D. O’Connor
Integrating intersectionality into social work practice with individuals and families: Sara Matsuzaka, Kimberly Hudson and Gita R. Mehrotra
Kinship care at the intersection of race, gender, and class: Cynthia Okpokiri
Taking account of inequalities and intersectionality in later life: critical gerontological social work and the lifecourse: Alisoun Milne
Addressing inequalities in mental health through an intersectional lens: Jo Warner
Intersectional perspectives on informal care: Yvette Wittenberg and Rick Kwekkeboom
Navigating the crossroads: an intersectional approach to race and gender in refugee contexts from a critical social work perspective: Kim Robinson
An intersectional approach to understanding and working with disabled communities: Carmen Yau
Transitional Safeguarding and intersectionality: Christine Cocker, Adi Cooper and Dez Holmes
Concluding reflections: Frank Keating, Claudia Bernard and Carlene Firmin

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