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Social work practice

It is quite a challenge to review the fifth edition of a book of which the first version was published in 1988, and where all its preceding editions were reprinted many times. The publisher claims that altogether over 75,000 copies of previous editions were sold. The book must be then very well known and appreciated by consecutive generations of both the teachers and students of social work at least in the UK and probably in other English-speaking countries also. The book was originally written by Veronica Coulshed, published in 1988 and reprinted twice. The second edition of her book was published in 1991, a year before her tragic death and reprinted six times. In the introduction to that edition she said that ‘...knowledge in social work changes so rapidly that one almost wants to rewrite as soon as the first account appears’ (Coulshed & Orme, 1998, p. 1). That statement unexpectedly became her testament, to be carried out by Joan Orme in the third edition published in 1998, reprinted eight times, and two subsequent editions to date, the fourth having been published in 2006 and reprinted six times. The comparison of three versions of the book Orme has rewritten shows that she faithfully fulfils that testament. As she stated in her first approach to continue the work of Coulshed: