Brenda A. LeFrançois
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Critical Social Work Praxis
A cutting-edge critical social work textbook that unites social work theory with practice.
University Research Professor, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Brenda LeFrançois is a university research professor in the School of Social Work, Memorial University of Newfoundland. With twenty-five years of experience as an academic, Dr. LeFrançois’ teaching has focused primarily on social work theory and praxis, critical mental health and qualitative research methodologies. Likewise, their activist scholarship is theory-infused and focuses on psychiatrization, sanism and anti-sanist praxis, from mad studies, anarchist and critical childhood studies perspectives. They have published widely on these and related topics.
Edited by Sobia Shaheen Shaikh, Brenda A. LeFrançois and Teresa Macías March 2022
A cutting-edge critical social work textbook that unites social work theory with practice.
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