Social Work category: 3462 books
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Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
In this singular collection, indigenous experts describe the social welfare systems of fifteen East Asian and Pacific Island nations and locales. Vastly understudied, these lands offer key insight into the successes and failures of Western and native approaches to social work, suggesting new directions...
Working Across Difference
Social Work, Social Policy and Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
Social Workers in Australia are increasingly called upon to work across social differences in ways that promote social justice and challenge growing inequity, and anti-oppressive practice has been put at the heart of qualifying programmes. In this exciting new collection, some of Australia’s leading...
What is Social Work?
Contexts and Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
Following the lives of four fictional time-travelling characters, it examines the changing functions of social work by unpicking the changing social and political responses to their needs. From its historical roots to the modern and fast-moving profession it has become, this book looks in detail...
Social Work Practice
Assessment, Planning, Intervention and Review
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2017
This bestselling book will take you step-by-step through the four main aspects of social work practice - Assessment, Planning, Intervention and Review - giving you a complete foundation in each. It will introduce you to each process in a clear and accessible way, supporting you to both reflect...
Psychoanalytic Theory for Social Work Practice
Thinking Under Fire
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Written by practicing social workers and social work educators, this text analyzes modern psychoanalytic and psychosocial approaches to social work and relates them to current practices and values. Focusing on working with children and families, the text covers salient issues in social work practice...
by Hilda Loughran
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
Counselling skills are very powerful. Really listening and providing compassionate empathy without judging is a core part of social work practice with service users.
This book provides a theoretically informed understanding of the core skills required to provide counselling interventions that...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
This brief version of Jerrold R. Brandell’s Theory & Practice of Clinical Social Work assembles coverage of the most vital topics for courses in Clinical Social Work/Advanced Practice. Written by established contributors in the field, this anthology addresses frameworks for treatment, therapeutic...
Engaging with Social Work
A Critical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2019
Contemporary global challenges require practitioners to confidently analyse the dominant discourses and develop frameworks and strategies for future change. Engaging with Social Work equips students with a critical perspective and develops their understanding of social work and human services practice,...
The Social Work and K-12 Schools Casebook
Phenomenological Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
This volume offers a collection of nine case studies from clinical social workers in K-12 schools, each from a phenomenological perspective, with the objective of educating Master of Social Work students and early career social work clinicians. Each chapter is framed with pre-reading prompts, reading...
by Lambley, Sharon, Hafford-Letchfield
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
Social work and social care continue to face an unprecedented period of challenge and uncertainty, requiring the development of leadership capabilities at every level of the workforce as well as in the community. This critical and reflexive book looks closely at the pivotal but demanding role that...
Family Centres and their International Role in Social Action
Social Work as Informal Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
This title was first published in 2001: Family centre practice is one of the success stories of the past twenty years. As well as contributing creative ideas to centre practice this important edited collection highlights the role of practitioners as developmental or informal educationalists. International...
Social Work Live
Theory and Practice in Social Work Using Videos
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
Social Work Live accesses multiple approaches to student learning: experiential, visual, and auditory. Carol Dorr emphasizes the important role of self-reflection and critical thinking in social work practice by paying special attention to process recordings and observing how the social worker reflects...
by Peter Scourfield
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2018
The ability to demonstrate professional leadership is a core requirement for social work students and social workers operating at all levels. This comprehensive textbook is ideal for any student on a social work course, from undergraduate to postgraduate study, and will go onto serve as a useful reference...
Connecting the Dots
A Social Work Academician’S Memoir of Intellectual and Career Development
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Richard K. Caputo, an under-the-radar social work scholar, shares lessons about finding his voice as a scholar, overcoming obstacles, and navigating the rigors and expectations of academia in this memoir.
From his days as an undergraduate to a graduate student; from being a paraprofessional...