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by Philip R. Popple
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
The first new social work history to be written in over twenty years, Social Work Practice and Social Welfare Policy in the United States presents a history of the field from the perspective of elites, service providers, and recipients. This book uniquely chronicles and analyzes the development of...
Social Theory for Social Work
Ideas and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
Trying to understand how the world looks through the eyes of individuals and groups and how it shapes the ways they think and act is something social workers do all the time. It is what social theorists do too. This book identifies and explains in a highly accessible manner the absolute value of social...
Social Work Fields of Practice
Historical Trends, Professional Issues, and Future Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2012
A contemporary look at social work practice and the many career possibilities—with detailed coverage of important new and emerging trends
As the practice of social work continues to diversify, students need a clear picture of the current state of the field and an up-to-date source of information...
Fostering Social Work Gerontology Competence
A Collection of Papers from the First National Gerontological Social Work Conference
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Inspire the next generation of gerontological social workers
The growing number of people over the age of 65 in the United States has increased the demand for social workers who are trained to work with the elderly—a demand that’s in danger of not being met. Fostering Social Work Gerontology...
by Vicky White
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Social work is currently undergoing major change in its policies, organization and day-to-day practice and much has been written about the feminist presence in social work. In particular, feminist social work has focused on the role of women social workers in developing distinctive forms of practice,...
Building Social Security
Volume 6, The Challenge of Privatization
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
In recent years, in both the specialist press and the tabloids, the idea of privatization of social security has become a shimmering catch phrase. Politicians base election campaigns on promises of more or less privatization in social security. Many governments introduce private business management...
by Carlton Munson, Tricia Bent-Goodley
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Critical analyses of policies that significantly affect African-American families and communities!
African-American Social Workers and Social Policy is the first book of its kind to combine the voices of African-American social work professionals on social policy in one volume. You'll learn...
Habermas and Giddens on Praxis and Modernity
A Constructive Comparison
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
‘Habermas and Giddens on Modernity: A Constructive Comparison’ investigates how two of the most important and influential contemporary social theorists have sought to develop the modernist visions of the constitution of society through the autonomous actions of subjects. It compares Habermas and...
Unfinished Business
Social Policy for Social Care Students in Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
With social and community services coming under increasing pressure as austerity continues, Unfinished Business examines how social policy has operated in Ireland and how it has been affected by consistent government cutbacks. It examines a wide range of issues important to social care students, such...
by Dr. Jessica A. Ritter, BSW, MSSW
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
PRAISE FOR THE FIRST EDITION:
"This is a vital and necessary guide to the social work profession. This book clarifies the social work mission, goals, and objectives, and strengthens and promotes them as well."
óCarmen Ortiz Hendricks, MSW, DSW, ACSW, LCSW
Professor...
Social Justice Theory and Practice for Social Work
Critical and Philosophical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2019
This book offers a much-needed critical overview of the concept of social justice and its application in professional social work practice. Social justice has a rich conceptual genealogy in critical theory and political philosophy. For students, teachers and social workers concerned with empowerment,...
by Venelin Terziev
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
The subject of study of this paper is in the need to introduce social management, based on the requirements for economy, efficiency and effectiveness, transparency and adequate social responsibility, the formation of a functioning active labor market through ongoing active social policy and implementation...
by Bob Deacon
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2007
`This primer on the global politics of social policy … is essential reading for students as well as others seriously interested in improving the human condition. Nuanced and critical, Deacon's book offers a much needed and constructive guide to the complex supra-national debates over rights, regulation...
One Hundred Years of Social Work: A History of the Profession in English Canada, 1900–2000
A History of the Profession in English Canada, 1900–2000
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2011
One Hundred Years of Social Work is the first comprehensive history of social work as a profession in English Canada. Organized chronologically, it provides a critical and compelling look at the internal struggles and debates in the social work profession over the course of a century and investigates...