Social Work category: 3462 books
Psychology for Social Work
A Comprehensive Guide to Human Growth and Development
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2015
This exciting new book is an engaging and accessible introduction to understanding human behaviour and development from a psychological perspective. Written by a psychologist with extensive teaching experience, it offers a clear and systematic exploration of psychological concepts and research, and...
The Transition from Welfare to Work
Processes, Challenges, and Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
How well do you understand the sweeping welfare reforms of the mid-1990s?
The Transition from Welfare to Work: Processes, Challenges, and Outcomes provides a comprehensive examination of the welfare-to-work initiatives that were undertaken just prior to and following the major reform of United...
Mastering Whole Family Assessment in Social Work
Balancing the Needs of Children, Adults and Their Families
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
How do you keep the whole family in mind when carrying out social work assessment? How do you balance the needs of adults and children? How do you ensure that children's welfare and safety are everyone's priority when families face complex difficulties?
Mastering Whole Family Assessment in...
Advanced Clinical Social Work Practice
Relational Principles and Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2009
Advanced Clinical Social Work Practice traces the development of relational ideas from their origin in object relations and self psychology to their evolution in current relational, intersubjectivity, and attachment theory. Relational treatment emphasizes openness and collaboration between client...
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,...
by Dr. Jerrold R. Brandell
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2010
This thoroughly updated resource is the only comprehensive anthology addressing frameworks for treatment, therapeutic modalities, and specialized clinical issues, themes, and dilemmas encountered in clinical social work practice. Editor Jerrold R. Brandell and other leading figures in the field present...
Theoretical Perspectives for Direct Social Work Practice, Third Edition
A Generalist-Eclectic Approach
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
This expanded third edition of a popular textbook provides a completely revised and updated overview of the theories, models, and therapies that inform direct social work practice. The text is grounded in generalist social work principles and values and promotes a problem-solving model of social work...
Social Work
Value-Guided Practice for a Global Society
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
This innovative textbook reconfigures generalist social work practice for the twenty-first century. Incorporating historical, ethical, and global perspectives, the volume presents new conceptualizations, definitions, and explanations for social work practice and principles in the areas of assessment,...
Social Work ASWB Masters Exam Guide, Second Edition
A Comprehensive Study Guide for Success
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
Print version of the book includes free access to the app (web, iOS, and Android), which offers interactive Q&A review plus the entire text of the print book! Please note the app is included with print purchase only.
Written by a renowned social work educator rather than an unknown at a test...
Social Work and Domestic Violence
Developing Critical and Reflective Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Domestic violence affects all areas of social work. This book shows how social workers can intervene in everyday practice with victims, their families and perpetrators of domestic abuse. It provides students with knowledge of theory, research and policy to put directly in practice across a variety...
Social Work and Health Care in an Aging Society
Education, Policy, Practice, and Research
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2003
This book places significant issues related to the health, mental health, and well-being of older adults and their caregivers within the context of social work service delivery. By presenting the research of social work scholars, all experts in specific research areas, the editors clarify the value...
Social Work and Minorities
European Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2002
Social Work and Minorities examines the new challenges presented to Social Workers throughout Europe by the complex problems occasioned by increased migration and settlement and the growing awareness of the specific needs of refugees and asylum seekers.
Contributors use illustrative examples from...
by Lena Dominelli, Jo Campling
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2002
Feminist theories of social work have been criticised in recent years for treating women as a uniform category and displaying insufficient sensitivity to the complex ways in which other social divisions (those of race, age, disability, etc.) impact on gender relations. This major text by a leading...
Islam and social work (second edition)
Culturally sensitive practice in a diverse world
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
This unique textbook enables social work practitioners to gain a deeper understanding of how Islamic principles inform and influence the lives of Muslim populations. Designed to support work with families and faith communities, this completely revised and updated edition examines religious precepts,...