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Theory for social work practice Bjorn Blom and Stefan Moren

interdisciplinary partnerships, rigorous research and core professional competencies. The book concludes with a number of important messages about the evidence-based practice movement. Namely that through think-tank activity social work, as a scientific discipline, can better understand itself beyond the realms of behaviourism and positivism, and articulate a clear nuanced valuesbased realist view of what it knows and why. I found the overall nature of the highly academic discourse disappointingly missing in terms of giving enough account of non-codified reflections or the legitimacy of the client/service user interpretation. This, though, is my personal hobby horse, and the book’s focus is not surprising given the particular origins of the writing and stated intent of the authors. However, what I really struggled with was understanding perhaps who was the audience for this book, or to whom I might recommend it. It is a text that can be argued for as extended reading for research and theory-based social work modules, and will interest the very small group of postgraduate and academic social workers specifically focused in the realms of what is social work knowledge. I do not sense this is a book that will be extensively read by the majority of qualifying social work students or social workers in practice. It is simply a very finite inquiry. This said, in many ways the book successfully continues the discourses prompted by many of the observations of the late Michael Eraut about the nature of what constitutes professional knowledge. In this regard, it makes an important contribution to an unfolding and unfinished story. Further, it augments the strains of social work, all too often being regarded as a minor profession, with an urgency to establish its intellectual foundation and credibility on a par with medicine and other long-standing disciplines. In this context, Brekke and Anastas have provided a coherent and important contribution to these debates.