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Teaching Social Work Practice
A Programme of Exercises and Activities Towards the Practice Teaching Award
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Teaching Social Work Practice is a lively, practical guide to developing your knowledge and skills as a teacher of social work practice in an agency setting. Social work students learn to practise in college and agency settings, and this book will help to integrate the student’s experience of learning....
Empowering Social Workers
Virtuous Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
This book demonstrates the central role of ethical character in effective social work practice. Showcasing select biographies of social workers, it reveals how skilled practitioners have developed such core virtues as compassion, love, commitment, prudence, respect for human dignity and a critical...
Competition and Cooperation in Social and Political Sciences
Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific Research in Social Sciences and Humanities, Depok, Indonesia, November 7-9, 2016: Topics in Social and Political Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
The book contains essays on current issues in Social and Political Sciences, such as the issues of governance and social order; social development and community development; global challenges and inequality; civil society and social movement; IT-based community and social transformation; poverty alleviation...
How the Social Sciences Think about the World's Social
Outline of a Critique
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
At the beginning of the new millennium, the social sciences took an epochal 'turn' that revolutionized their theory-building. As a response to what they called the globalization of the social, they found the need to globalize their theorizing as well. It is curious that only after two centuries of...
Complexity, Society and Social Transactions
Developing a Comprehensive Social Theory
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2017
This book develops and presents a general social theory explaining social, cultural and economic ontology and, as a by-product, the ontology of other social institutions and structures. This theory is called social transaction theory. Using the framework of the complex adaptive systems model, this...
Older Citizens and End-of-Life Care
Social Work Practice Strategies for Adults in Later Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
Older people are, like younger people, citizens in the communities of the nations in which they live. This book sees ageing as a life journey that incorporates a process of citizening, in which people build their identity as part of their family and community. But the social experience of illness,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
There has been a recent growth in the use of social media tools in social work education. This edited text presents a series of chapters which discuss social media activities and how they can contribute to student learning, and social work practice. The contributors, all innovators in the use of social...
Transnational Social Policy
Social Welfare in a World on the Move
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Transnational Social Policy highlights the changing face of social policy and social work against the background of accelerating transnationalization of economies, labour markets, education, social services, and care. The contributions of this book provide unique case examples on the interplay of...
Subversive Action
Extralegal Practices for Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2015
Subversive Action presents cases that explore the use of extralegal action undertaken in pursuit of human rights and social justice, and locate that action with reference to the boundaries of social work. Definitions of social work often include goals of social change, social justice, empowerment,...
by Sarah Irwin
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2005
Caught up in current social changes, we do not fully understand the reshaping of social life. In sociological analyses there is a conceptual gap between subjectivities and social structural processes, and we face real difficulties in understanding social change and diversity. Through analysis of key...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Today’s practitioners and researchers are looking, now more than ever, at the ethical issues that are raised through the practice of social work and social services. As such, it is crucial that they are up-to-date on the latest data on how to address, manage, and overcome ethical issues in their...
Social Working
An Ethnography of Front-line Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1995
In this unique work directed at social workers, Gerald A.J. de Montigny maintains that they, along with other professionals, create an `institutional' reality through their day-to-day practices. He traces the practical ways that social workers, when involved in child protection, struggle to produce...
Human Rights and Social Equality: Challenges for Social Work
Social Work-Social Development Volume I
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
The mission of the social work profession and the development of social policy are rooted in a set of core values and are the foundation of social work’s unique purpose and perspective. Human rights offer a normative base for social work and for the formation of inclusive social policies. This informative...
Quixote's Ghost
The Right, the Liberati, and the Future of Social Policy
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2005
American social policy, writes David Stoesz, is currently experiencing an alarming paradigm shift. Quixote's Ghost, a provocative new analysis of the ideological fight for control of American social welfare policy, demonstrates how the Right pirated the pragmatism championed by the Left since the...