Social workers must develop a sensitive yet informed approach when
working with service users from different social and cultural groups. In
many aspects of life, including accessing human services, people are
marginalised, ignored, stigmatised or discriminated against because of
one or more aspects of their identity: age, sexual orientation, faith or
belief, gender, race or ethnicity, social class, and disability.
This book acts as a guide for students to develop their understanding of
these various groups while illustrating how the social work value base
can be a central part of such understanding.