Critical realism for welfare professions / edited by Monica Kjorstad and May-Britt Solem.

part Part I -- chapter 1 Toward an in-depth understanding of professional social and welfare work / MONICA KJØRSTAD AND MAY-BRITT SOLEM -- chapter 2 Basic concepts in critical realism / MONICA KJØRSTAD AND MAY-BRITT SOLEM -- part Part II -- chapter 3 Normativity in the social sciences and professions / ANDREW SAYER -- chapter 4 Interdisciplinary work in a critical realist perspective / BERTH DANERMARK -- chapter 5 Learning to absent the absent: critical realism and social work education / STANLEY HOUSTON -- part Part III -- chapter 6 Understanding the dynamics between professional social and welfare work and social politics: a critical realist perspective / MONICA KJØRSTAD -- chapter 7 Encounters uncovered: implementing critical realism and domain theory in ethnographic research with young masculinities / HARRY LUNABBA -- chapter 8 Parenting stress and coping practices in a critical realist perspective / MAY-BRITT SOLEM -- chapter 9 Positions of young people in child welfare: "TMSA" in research practice / ELINA PEKKARINEN -- part Part IV -- chapter 10 Theory and practice as a dynamic relation / MONICA KJØRSTAD AND MAY-BRITT SOLEM.