Social Services category: 2206 books
Fundraising
How to Raise Money for Your Library Using Social Media
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Fundraising: How to Raise Money for Your Library Using Social Media introduces the phenomena that many members, supporters and fundraisers are not using social media to fundraise for their libraries, and may not be aware of its strengths and pitfalls. The book discusses why social media should be...
Voices From the Field
Group Work Responds
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Voices From the Field is the book to challenge you from your cozy position of complacency! By simply opening its pages, you will learn about fascinating developments in group work sequences in group care, empowerment groups in action, and a whole spectrum of practice and education-oriented themes...
The Power of the Stranger
Structures and Dynamics in Social Intervention - A Theoretical Framework
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
The decline of the welfare state in Western Europe has led to an increasing role both for citizen-led initiatives and for philanthropy in easing, solving or preventing social problems. Care and everyday help is being provided by strangers - people driven by enthusiasm and commitment but unfamiliar...
Nonprofit Management
A Social Justice Approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Nonprofit organizations are increasingly concerned with the need to demonstrate how social justice principles impact every aspect of their work. This is the only textbook to explicitly integrate social justice principles into the management of a nonprofit organization. It provides students with the...
Childhood, Youth, and Social Work in Transformation
Implications for Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2009
Social workers today not only face competing claims concerning the rights and needs of children and youth, but they also confront contradictions between policy and practice. Social workers are expected to fight for the best interests of the child, even though financial support for children's welfare...
Early Intervention
How Canada's social programs can work better, save lives, and often save money
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Governments and social agencies tackle the toughest social problems their citizens face -- poverty, homelessness, mental and physical illness, violence, abuse, and more. Yet these problems persist in Canada -- in many cases, they are worsening -- and the costs of the social safety net continue to...
by Maurice Mullard, Paul Spicker
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2005
Social Policy in a Changing Society is a critical guide to theories about society, exploring the links between social theory and social policy. It considers a range of interpretations of changes in society, politics and the economy, and assesses their practical implications for social welfare. Social...
Social Work Approaches to Conflict Resolution
Making Fighting Obsolete
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Social Work Approaches to Conflict Resolution helps readers understand the nature and causes of conflict and offers suggestions for coping with conflict effectively. It is based on two assumptions: that conflict is a basic part of the life of normal human beings, groups, organizations, communities,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
A growing number of people-immigrants, refugees, asylum-seekers, displaced individuals, and families-lead lives that transcend national boundaries. Often because of economic pressures, these individuals continually move through places, countries, and cultures, becoming exposed to unique risk and protective...
A Most Human Enterprise
Controversies in the Social Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
A Most Human Enterprise looks at controversial social science research methods and their effects on subjects and researchers. In detailing case studies in which plagiarism was alleged, subjects were mislead or seriously abused, and research denigrated certain demographics, Donald O. Granberg and John...
by Barry Ip, Xianhui Che
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Social Networks in China provides an in-depth guide to Chinese social networks, covering behaviors, usage, key issues, and future developments. Chinese scholarship and cultural idiosyncrasies in technology remain a relatively under-researched area. While such issues may be sporadically reported in...
by Jennifer Alsop, Matthew Beaudoin, Jean-Sébastien Boutet
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
People across Canada’s North have created vibrant community institutions to serve a wide range of social and economic needs. Neither state-driven nor profit-oriented, these organizations form a relatively under-studied third sector of the economy. Researchers from the Social Economy Research Network...
by Linda Gast, Anne Patmore
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2012
Central to a social worker's role is the ability to work with people from diverse backgrounds, but social workers can often feel anxious and unsure of how to approach anti-discriminatory practice.
This book, grounded in practice experience, is an accessible guide to diversity issues in social...
Social Work Practice in Healthcare
Advanced Approaches and Emerging Trends
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Social Work Practice in Health Care by Karen M. Allen and William J. Spitzer is a pragmatic and comprehensive book that helps readers develop the knowledge, skills, and values necessary for effective health care social work practice, as well as an understanding of the technological, social, political,...