An A-Z of Social Work Theory

About Malcolm Payne

Malcolm Payne holds honorary professorial posts with Manchester Metropolitan University where he was for many years professor and head of Applied Community Studies and Kingston University London. He worked as a social worker and manager in probation child and adult social care and in community mental health and residential care development work in local and national voluntary organisations and in social work education in the UK Finland Poland and Slovakia. Among his many books are Modern social work theory (5th edition 2021) Humanistic social work What is professional social work? Citizenship social work with older people and (edited with Emma Reith-Hall) The Routledge handbook of social work theory (2019).