Social Work category: 3462 books
by William Epstein
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Many people in the United States are poor, lead marginal lives, and need jobs as well as basic services such as education, medical care, and housing. Multitudes in other parts of the world, in addition to being poor, are jailed, tortured, and killed for being members of the wrong ethnic group or expressing...
Understanding Community Care
A Guide for Social Workers
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2006
The second edition of this popular textbook on community care has been substantially updated to incorporate both the new requirements for social work training, and the considerable developments in policy, law, research and practice since 1999. The book traces the historical development of community care...
by Professor John Swain, Sally French, Colin Barnes
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2004
`The strengths of this text are many. It has breadth and diversity in its content yet is presented in bite-size chapters. For those wishing to know more, it offers signposts to the relevant literature. The contributors have been carefully selected for their specific perspective yet these have been skilfully...
Dynamics of Social Welfare Policy
Right versus Left
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2007
This book examines ten key issues—poverty, housing, taxation and the economy, child welfare, education, health, criminal justice, civil rights, and global issues—confronting social work professionals and places them in their larger context. The introduction to each issue identifies its genesis...
Becoming Citizens
Deepening the Craft of Youth Civic Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
The decreasing rate of involvement in organized groups and with voting by young people is a disturbing trend that perhaps can be turned around. Becoming Citizens: Deepening the Craft of Youth Civic Engagement brings together civic education, experiential education, and political theory to provide...
Reconfiguring Citizenship
Social Exclusion and Diversity within Inclusive Citizenship Practices
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Citizenship as a status assumes that all those encompassed by the term 'citizen' are included, albeit within the boundaries of the nation-state. Yet citizenship practices can be both inclusionary and exclusionary, with far-reaching ramifications for both nationals and non-nationals. This volume explores...
by Richard Hoefer
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This book provides fresh perspectives on the state of policy practice. Leading scholars explore such vital conceptual topics such as how to impact social justice, what the strengths-based perspective means to policy practitioners and how to bridge the all-too common gap between community organizing...
by Sarah Williams, Lynne Rutter
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
This book is for busy social workers involved in supporting, enabling and assessing learners in the workplace. It has been written specifically to support those undertaking practice educator awards that meet the staged requirements of the Practice Educator Professional Standards (CSW, 2012), and will...
The Witness Stand
A Guide for Clinical Social Workers in the Courtroom
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Learn reliable techniques to prepare and present effective testimony!
“Soon after leaving graduate school I was thrown to the courtroom wolves with no preparation. No social worker should have to go through that,” says Janet Vogelsang, author of The Witness Stand. Few colleges of social...
Social Capital and Community Well-Being
The Serve Here Initiative
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
This book provides a comprehensive overview of how communities can leverage their social capital to improve overall quality of life for citizens. In addition, it offers detailed guidance on the design, implementation, and evaluation of social capital initiatives. It defines critical concepts of social...
Working in Social Care
A Systemic Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
This book is designed to aid the practitioner in all social care and social work settings. It explores approaches to practice which are based upon systemic ideas and an awareness of the impact of power in practice contexts. Following the introduction of the main ideas of the book, the authors examine...
The Research Compendium
Review and Abstracts of Graduate Research, 1942-1962
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1964
This book represents an important contribution by the School of Social Work at the University of Toronto. It is a record of a carefully designed plan to include a worthwhile research experience in the educational programme of every student engaged in graduate education for the profession. In the introductory...
by Mark Henrickson, Christa Fouché
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Vulnerability has traditionally been conceived as a dichotomised status, where an individual by reason of a personal characteristic is classified as vulnerable or not. However, vulnerability is not static, and most, if not all, people are vulnerable at some time in their lives. Similarly, marginality...
Healing Justice
Holistic Self-Care for Change Makers
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
In the context of multiple forms of global economic, social, and cultural oppression, along with intergenerational trauma, burnout, and public services retrenchment, this book offers a framework and set of inquiries and practices for social workers, activists, community organizers, counselors, and...