Modern 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 UK. 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 organizations. Most recently he was director of psychosocial and spiritual care and policy and development advisor for St Christopher's Hospice London. He has also worked in social work education in the UK Finland Poland and Slovakia. His publications include articles and papers on practice and theory in social work on teamwork in interprofessional practice and on practice and research in end-of-life care. Among his other books are 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).