Social Work category: 3462 books
by Christina L. Erickson
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
Environmental Justice as Social Work Practice places the natural environment as central to practice. Utilizing the Phases of Practice and micro to macro levels of practice, the book integrates neatly into a college semester course. Chapters cover important components of social work such as theory,...
Core Social Work
International Theory, Values and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
It is important for practising and trainee social workers to have a full understanding of the work they do and its role in society.
This book provides an introduction to 'the essentials' of social work. Written from an international perspective, the author details the core theory, values and...
Reflective Thinking in Social Work
Learning from student narratives
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
It is vital that social work students learn to integrate their personal and professional selves if they are to meet the challenges of social work in complex changing environments. This accessible text is designed to enable readers to explore and build on their existing skills and abilities, supporting...
Stories Celebrating Group Work
It's Not Always Easy to Sit on Your Mouth
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Stories Celebrating Group Work: It’s Not Always Easy to Sit on Your Mouth celebrates the 25th anniversary of the esteemed journal Social Work with Groups with a collection of 21 narratives from group work practitioners and educators. These highly personal stories from a range of social workers-young...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
How are identities formed among social workers, many of whom perform complex, challenging and ambiguous public sector functions on a regular basis? Why does identity come to matter for professional social work? This book, the first of its kind in the field, examines professional identity in relation...
The New Social Work Practice
Exercises and Activities for Training and Developing Social Workers
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2019
First published in 1998, this book is a fully revised and updated edition of Social Work Practice, first published in 1993 as a training manual.
The New Social Work Practice presents a comprehensive view of contemporary social work. Whether it be general or specialist practice, care and control...
Empowering Social Workers
Virtuous Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
This book demonstrates the central role of ethical character in effective social work practice. Showcasing select biographies of social workers, it reveals how skilled practitioners have developed such core virtues as compassion, love, commitment, prudence, respect for human dignity and a critical...
Social Work in Africa
Exploring Culturally Relevant Education and Practice in Ghana
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Social Work in Africa offers professors, students, and practitioners insight concerning social work in the African context. Its purpose is to encourage examination of the social work curriculum and to demonstrate practical ways to make it more culturally relevant. Drawing on her experience as a social...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
This engaging and timely volume contributes new knowledge to the rapidly emerging field of globalisation and social work. The volume brings together cutting-edge interdisciplinary scholarship from countries such as Australia, Finland, Japan, South Africa, the Philippines and Sweden. It proposes ‘glocalisation’...
Subversive Action
Extralegal Practices for Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2015
Subversive Action presents cases that explore the use of extralegal action undertaken in pursuit of human rights and social justice, and locate that action with reference to the boundaries of social work. Definitions of social work often include goals of social change, social justice, empowerment,...
Social Work with Latinos
Social, Economic, Political, and Cultural Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
The focus on Latinos in the United States has generally overlooked key social-economic-political dimensions that are not only growing in importance, but may ultimately hold an important key to how well this group does in the immediate and distant future in the country. The approximate ten-year period...
by Frederic G. Reamer
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2006
This is the leading introduction 200to professional values and ethics in social work. Frederic G. Reamer provides social workers with a succinct and comprehensive overview of the most critical issues relating to professional values and ethics, including the nature of social work values, ethical dilemmas,...
Social Work Practice for Promoting Health and Wellbeing
Critical Issues
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Promoting health and wellbeing is an essential part of all effective social work – not just for practice in healthcare settings. In fact, the IFSW holds that ‘social workers in all settings are engaged in health work’ and physical and mental resilience can make a major difference to all service...
Social Work with Children and Families
Reflections of a Critical Practitioner
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
Professional social work has changed considerably over the last forty years coinciding with the demise of the social democratic consensus of the post-war years and the emergence and now domination of neoliberalism. Rather than the state through the government of the day ensuring citizens' basic needs...