Social Work category: 3462 books
Assessment & Intervention in Social Work
Preparing for Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
Chris Beckett's new book on assessment and intervention in social work practice covers the core topics for qualifying social work students. The book provides a thorough understanding of the issues and skills essential for effective practice. Each of the nine chapters defines a key concept, including...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
Social workers play a crucial part in contemporary society by ensuring that individuals are able to address, overcome, and manage obstacles in their daily lives. In an effort to better serve their clients, many practitioners have turned to evidence-based practice. Evidence Discovery and Assessment...
by Caroline Ball, Ann McDonald
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
The fourth edition of this popular text has been expanded to accommodate social workers’ continuing need for a thorough grounding in the statutory framework of local authority practice and the wider legal context of social work in the statutory and voluntary sectors. The separate chapter on social...
Understanding Social Work
Preparing for Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2015
Focusing on the challenges of achieving good practice, Understanding Social Work reflects recent developments in social work within the context of contemporary society, law and policy. This popular text continues to offer an excellent foundation for readers for anyone wanting a better understanding of the social work role.
A Twenty-First Century Approach to Community Change
Partnering to Improve Life Outcomes for Youth and Families in Under-Served Neighborhoods
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
Urban renewal has been the dominant approach to revitalizing industrialized communities that fall into decline. A national, community-based organization, the Skillman Foundation sought to engage in a joint effort with the University of Michigan's School of Social Work to bring six neighborhoods in...
Social Work in a Risk Society
Social and Political Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2006
This path-breaking text constructs a new way of thinking about social work based on contemporary social theory. Working in a counter-tradition that is suspicious of a number of governing ideas and practices in social work, it draws on themes from Beck, Giddens, Rose to explore the impact of risk society and neo liberalism on social work.
Social Work Practice and Psychopharmacology, Second Edition
A Person-in-Environment Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2009
Why do social workers need to know about mental health medications?
How can social workers best assist clients who are taking medications?
What is the social worker's role as part of the interdisciplinary health care team?
Answering these questions and more, this comprehensive text discusses the...
Social Policy and Social Work
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
An understanding of social policy is crucial for social workers as it underpins and shapes the legislative framework that they work within. From safeguarding service users and enabling them to improve their lives, to protecting the most vulnerable in society, social policy also has a vital role to...
by Terry L. (Lea) Koenig, Richard (Rick) N. Spano, John B. Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2019
Human Behavior Theory for Social Work Practice provides an in-depth examination of human behavior theories and helps students apply each theory to social work practice. Authors Terry Koenig, Rick Spano, and John Thompson cover a broad spectrum of theories—including ecological, psychological, and...
by Mary Allen
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Intimate partner violence is now recognised as a serious human rights abuse and increasingly as an important public health problem with severe consequences for women’s physical, mental and sexual health. Therefore, a comprehensive understanding of intimate partner violence is an essential aspect...
Mastering Communication in Social Work
From Understanding to Doing
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
Communication skills are fundamental to effective social work practice.
Accessible and easy-to-read, Mastering Communication in Social Work is designed to help you develop these essential skills. It explores the basics of how communication works, the factors that influence how effectively you...
Critical Multicultural Practice in Social Work
New perspectives and practices
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2019
Critical multicultural practice, rather than being a specialism, is integral to Australian social work. Drawing on critical race theory, critical multiculturalism, intersectionality and critical reflection as practice theory, this major new edited collection challenges many of the dominant assumptions...
Youth in Society
Contemporary Theory, Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2004
'The book is a useful student text that offers a wide range of well informed perspectives on the position of young people in society today. It has built on its successful first edition and should provide a useful springboard to further study'
- Scolag Legal Journal
'This resource will...
Governing Risk
Care and Control in Contemporary Social Work
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
Drawing on Foucault's later work on governmentality, this book traces the effects of 'the rise of risk' on contemporary social work practice. Focusing on two 'domains' of practice – mental health social work and probation work – it analyses the ways in which risk thinking has affected social work's aims and objectives, methods and approaches.