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Social Work Reclaimed
Innovative Frameworks for Child and Family Social Work Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Reclaiming Social Work (RSW) is a radical new system for delivering child and family social work in the UK. The system was first piloted in the London Borough of Hackney and the model has gained national recognition. At the heart of this innovative system is the endeavour to keep children together...
by Daniel Raphael
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
Social Sustainability HANDBOOK for Community-Builders clearly describes the two sub-divisions of sustainability. Material sustainability is quantity-object based. Social Sustainability.is quality-value based. Material sustainability is improved by increasing the quantity available while decreasing usage,...
by Ms Trish Hafford-Letchfield, Ms Kate Leonard, Ms Nasa Begum
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2007
'This is a timely and well crafted text which is to be commended, with strong chapters from knowledgeable and committed authors. A stimulating read and one which will be of considerable use to those with responsibility for leading and managing learning in social care and social work' - Keith Popple,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Since the publication of Herbert Spencer's Principles of Sociology in 1875, the use of social structure as a defining concept has produced a large body of creative speculations, insights, and intuitions about social life. However, writers in this tradition do not always provide the sorts of formal...
Social Capital at the Community Level
An Applied Interdisciplinary Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
In Social Capital at the Community Level, John Halstead and Steven Deller examine social capital formation beyond the individual level through a variety of disciplines: planning, economics, regional development, sociology, as well as non-traditional approaches like engineering and built environmental...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2009
Globalization, Education and Social Justice, which is the tenth volume in the 12-volume book series Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research, presents up-to-date scholarly research on major discourses concerning global trends in education, social justice and policy research. It provides...
Social Media Freaks
Digital Identity in the Network Society
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Social media has been transforming American and global cultural life for over a decade. It has flattened the divide between producer and audience found in other forms of culture while also enriching some massive corporations. At the core of Social Media Freaks is the question: Does social media reproduce...
Administrative Leadership in the Social Services
The Next Challenge
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
What should be the roles and behavior of administrators to meet the challenges facing social service agencies today? Here is a thought-provoking book that provides a great deal of insight into administrative leadership, an essential component in the survival and effectiveness of social service agencies.
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Social policies and social control
New perspectives on the 'not-so-big society'
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
Drawing on a wide array of policy domains and events, this book provides an innovative account of social control and behaviourism within welfare systems and social policies, and the implications for disadvantaged groups. This accessible collection reviews the controls, assumptions and persuasions...
by Linda May Grobman, Karen Zgoda
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
Edited by Linda May Grobman & Karen Zgoda
In this Guide is a collection of articles that have appeared in The New Social Worker®: The Social Work Careers Magazine. The magazine, published since 1994, focuses on providing practical articles to help social work students and new graduates...
Doing Critical Social Work
Transformative Practices for Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2016
Critical social work encourages emancipatory personal and social change. This text focuses on the challenge of incorporating critical theory into the practice of social workers and provides case studies and insights from a range of fields to illustrate how to work with tensions and challenges.
Beginning...
Social Work and the City
Urban Themes in 21st-Century Social Work
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2016
This book critically explores ways of thinking about the city and its relevance for the profession of social work. It provides a colourful illustration of practice drawing on examples of social work responses to a range of issues emerging from the unprecedented scale, density and pace of change in...
International Social Work Practice
Case Studies from a Global Context
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
International Social Work Practice compares and contrasts divergent social work approaches in countries around the world, providing students with a unique perspective on social work as it is actually practised. Using case studies from frontline practitioners from across the globe, this innovative...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Social exclusion attempts to make sense out of multiple deprivations and inequities experienced by people and areas, and the reinforcing effects of reduced participation, consumption, mobility, access, integration, influence and recognition. This book works from a multidisciplinary approach across...