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Social Work and Human Rights
A Foundation for Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
Social Work and Human Rights has become a standard text highlighting the role of social work in protecting the rights of vulnerable populations. Through rigorous analysis, classroom exercises, and a frank discussion of the implications for practice both within and outside of the United States, the...
Social Policy for Social Work
Placing Social Work in its Wider Context
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Contemporary social work cannot be understood without an appreciation of the broader context of social policy in which it takes place. Such an understanding is increasingly important as social workers are expected to work across institutional, professional and even national boundaries in new ways...
by Gerald P Mallon
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Focusing on the pragmatic aspects of social work with gay and lesbian persons, this book offers a knowledge base of practice that will better prepare students and practitioners for working more competently and effectively with lesbians and gay men. Written by scholars and practitioners in the social...
Social Work with Immigrants and Refugees
Legal Issues, Clinical Skills and Advocacy
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2008
"This book is an optimal tool for instructors and students of graduate classes in social work and related disciplines."
--Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health
"I applaud social work students, professors, and social workers who seek to serve and empower the immigrant...
Social Work in Ireland
Changes and Continuities
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
During a period of great economic and political change and uncertainty this book offers a timely evaluation of social work in Ireland.Social Work in Ireland: Changes and Continuities has brought together a range of academics and professionals to provide a comprehensive analysis of social work in the...
Social Policy for Social Work, Social Care and the Caring Professions
Scottish Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Since devolution in 1999, social policy within Scotland has burgeoned. The Scottish Parliament has a range of powers in relation to key policy areas including social work, education, health, child care, child protection, law and home affairs, and housing. These powers and the existence of a distinct...
by Robert Adams, Jo Campling
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2002
Social Policy for Social Work provides a comprehensive, critical and engaging introduction to social policy for students and practitioners of social work. The text is clearly structured into three parts that cover contexts, policies and issues. The first part explores changing perspectives on social...
Communities for Social Change
Practicing Equality and Social Justice in Youth and Community Work
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Communities for Social Change: Practicing Equality and Social Justice in Youth and Community Work examines core ideas of social justice and equality that underpin community and youth work. It informs understanding of a range of community concepts and practices that are used to identify practical skills...
by Joseph A. Maguire
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Social Sciences in Sport presents discipline-specific knowledge in the social sciences, which aids in understanding the problems and potential of contemporary sport practices and experiences. This interdisciplinary reference provides in-depth coverage of sport studies and 14 social sciences, drawing...
Managing State Social Work
Front-Line Management and the Labour Process Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2018
Published in 1998. The industrial model of the labour process developed by Braverman was applied to social work in the radical social work literature. The book engages in a more critical examination of the application of the labour process perspective to social work, with particular reference to front-line...
by Paul Williams, Michelle Evans
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
This book is part of the highly successful Transforming Social Work Practice series and is written specifically to support students on the social work degree. Full of practical activities, case studies and opportunities for students to critically reflect and explore theory and practice.
Current...
Imaginative Methodologies in the Social Sciences
Creativity, Poetics and Rhetoric in Social Research
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Imaginative Methodologies in the Social Sciences develops, expands and challenges conventional social scientific methodology and language by way of literary, poetic and other alternative sources of inspiration, as sociologists, social workers, anthropologists, criminologists and psychologists all...
Cognitive Science and the Social
A Primer
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
The rise of cognitive neuroscience is the most important scientific and intellectual development of the last thirty years. Findings pour forth, and major initiatives for brain research continue. The social sciences have responded to this development slowly--for good reasons. The implications of particular...
The Profession of Social Work
Guided by History, Led by Evidence
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
An expert introduction to the foundations of the social work profession—from its historical roots to its evolution in an era of evidence-based practice
The Profession of Social Work provides a broad overview of the history, scope, values, ethics, and organizational framework of the social...