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by Mark Doel
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Social Work: The Basics is an insightful introduction to the often misrepresented world of social work. This accessible book presents a broad view of contemporary social work, exploring its roots and its possible future. It dispels myths surrounding social work, addresses media debates, and offers...
Social Work and Social Policy
Advancing the Principles of Economic and Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2012
A comprehensive overview of domestic and global social welfare policy
Written by a team of renowned social policy experts sharing their unique perspectives on global and U.S. social welfare policy issues, Social Work and Social Policy helps social workers consider key issues that face policymakers,...
European Social Policy and Social Work
Citizenship-Based Social Work
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
European Social Policy and Social Work explores shifts in international social policies and how they affect national trends and thus the context for social work practice.
The book discusses international and national social work strategies and practice and investigates the responsibilities...
The Social Work-Medicine Relationship
100 Years at Mount Sinai
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
An absorbing exploration of the growth of social work at the Mount Sinai Medical Center
The Social Work-Medicine Relationship: 100 Years at Mount Sinai explores the lessons learned in the formation and management of social work departments in health care, through the perspective of the hospital...
Social Work
A Companion to Learning
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2007
'This engaging and stimulating book is well placed to become a key text in many student social workers' redaing lists' - Journal of Interprofessional Care
`[An] excellent book, abounding with conceptual insights, bursting with research and evidence-based reasoning, and pretty comprehensive...
Rethinking Social Studies
Critical Pedagogy in Pursuit of Dangerous Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Like the schools in which it is taught, social studies is full of alluring contradictions. It harbors possibilities for inquiry and social criticism, liberation and emancipation. Social studies could be a site that enables young people to analyze and understand social issues in a holistic way finding...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2018
This important December 2017 report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction.
How does the use of social media by radical and non-radical social movements differ, and what are the implications of externally focused national security anti-terrorist...
Social Services in the Workplace
Repositioning Occupational Social Work in the New Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Discover the challenges and pitfalls awaiting occupational social workers in the coming years!
Social Services in the Workplace: Repositioning Occupational Social Work in the New Millennium will help you meet the challenges that the rapidly changing world of work today presents. These challenges...
Handbook of Social Resource Theory
Theoretical Extensions, Empirical Insights, and Social Applications
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Our lives as human beings are characterized by production and use of social resources, material (e.g., money and physical possessions) as well as immaterial (such as love, knowledge, and power). Distribution and exchange of these resources are central to individuals’ physical and mental health and...
Narratives of Social Justice Educators
Standing Firm
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
This book presents narratives of eminent social justice educators, which provide a window into why these educators have made it their mission to educate for attainment of social justice; it succinctly defines what social justice education is and what it is not. Eleven nationally and internationally...
Social Development in Social Work
Practices and Principles
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Social work has always been concerned with the development of society as the basis for achieving the well-being of individuals, families and communities. Interest in this important aspect of social work is now seeing a resurgence, not only in the ‘developing countries’ of the global South, but...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Social Ecology is an emerging concept situated in the field of critical social theory and new integrative sciences that addresses the complex and interrelated relationship between nature and society, offering a perspective on how environmental issues are embedded in a social context. Border landscapes...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book was created to describe the social psychological approach (SPA) to the social work process. It has long been asserted that social workers need to understand and use social psychology in their practice. Yet the literature avail· able to social workers has been limited. There have been no...
Social Work with Groups
Social Justice Through Personal, Community, and Societal Change
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Help change the world by bringing ideas of social justice into your group work practice!
Social workers who use hip-hop music to reach out to troubled adolescents. Practitioners who compare First Nations talking circles with social work practice with groups. A retired professor who transforms...