Social Work category: 3462 books
by James I. Martin
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of social work find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data...
Supporting people with alcohol and drug problems
Making a difference
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
Social workers and other social care professionals regularly face the challenges of working with people with alcohol and other drug problems. Yet many receive little, if any, training for working with these issues. As substance use and its social impact on communities and families rises up the political...
by Ira C. Colby
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
All social work practice is regulated by social policies. Professionals, however, cannot arbitrarily select which policy to follow in any circumstance. Knowing what comprises a given policy is essential, but equally important is understanding how to amend a policy by applying unique skills that reflect...
Latino Small Businesses and the American Dream
Community Social Work Practice and Economic and Social Development
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
Latino small businesses provide social, economic, and cultural comfort to their communities. They are also excellent facilitators of community capacity—a major component of effective social work practice. Social work practitioners have a vested interest in seeing such businesses grow, not only among...
by Lena Dominelli, Jo Campling
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2002
This book, by one of the leading theorists of social work, tackles a subject of crucial importance to students and practitioners alike: how social workers can enable their clients to challenge and transcend the manifold oppressions that disempower them (whether through poverty, disability, mental illness,...
Challenging Social Work
The Institutional Context of Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2006
Taking account of the political, economic and cultural changes that have impacted on social work over recent years, this book explores the challenges and presents the realities of practice. Using an international range of examples, McDonald makes an important contribution to the ongoing debate about the character and purpose of social work.
by Jane Dalrymple, Dr Jane Boylan
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Advocacy is an essential skill for social workers who need to be able to speak confidently on behalf of service-users in a range of situations. In this new book, Jane Dalrymple and Jane Boylan explore the theory and research behind advocacy to demonstrate how to achieve best practice.
Key...
Welfare, Work, and Poverty
Social Assistance in China
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2017
Welfare, Work, and Poverty provides the first systematic and comprehensive evaluation of the impacts and effectiveness of China's primary social assistance program -- Minimum Livelihood Guarantee, or Dibao -- since its inception in 1993. Dibao serves the dual function of providing a basic safety net...
Direct Work with Family Groups
Simple, Fun Ideas to Aid Engagement and Assessment and Enable Positive Change
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
Direct Work with Family Groups is full of great ideas to aid engagement, assessment and enable positive change through direct work with family groups.
Working with families can be a challenging experience. This book looks at the personal skills needed to engage families, both at home and in...
Practical social pedagogy
Theories, values and tools for working with children and young people
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Social pedagogical work is a field of practice that is indebted to and illuminated by aspects of knowledge from sociology and psychology, but many practitioners feel that social pedagogical theories are too abstract and distant from the challenges faced in practice. In Practical Social Pedagogy Jan...
by Larry Harrison
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2002
Community surveys reveal that about 6% of the adult male and 1% of the adult female population in England and Wales are drinking at high risk levels.
Alcohol Problems in the Community examines the implications of recent community care legislation for government policy on alcohol. The first part of...
Social Work, Immigration and Asylum
Debates, Dilemmas and Ethical Issues for Social Work and Social Care Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2004
The practical and ethical challenges facing human service professionals working with refugees, asylum seekers and other people subject to immigration controls are discussed in this much-needed book. The contributors explore the tensions that exist between traditional anti-oppressive values and the...
by Michael A. Dover
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of social work find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data...
Reciprocal Relationships and Well-being
Implications for Social Work and Social Policy
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
A sense of participation and opportunities to share and participate in activities or groups that are important to them are crucial factors in human wellbeing.
This book provides a robust empirical and theoretical analysis of reciprocity and its implications for social work and social policy...