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by Kevin Corcoran, Albert R. Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
People all over the world are confronted by issues such as poverty, a lack of access to quality education, unaffordable and or inadequate housing, and a lack of needed health and mental services on a daily basis. Due to these issues, there is a need for social workers who have access to relevant and...
Social Justice in Clinical Practice
A Liberation Health Framework for Social Work
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
Social work theory and ethics places social justice at its core and recognises that many clients from oppressed and marginalized communities frequently suffer greater forms and degrees of physical and mental illness. However, social justice work has all too often been conceptualized as a macro intervention,...
Multiple Social Categorization
Processes, Models and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
'Ethnic cleansing', 'institutional racism', and 'social exclusion' are just some of the terms used to describe one of the most pressing social issues facing today’s societies: prejudice and intergroup discrimination. Invariably, these pervasive social problems can be traced back to differences in...
Faith-Based Social Services
Measures, Assessments, and Effectiveness
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Read the latest studies on the effectiveness of religious-based services—and the problems revealed in the assessment
The Charitable Choice provision and the Bush Administration’s National Faith-Based Initiative have broadened the scope of social services delivered through faith-based organizations....
Practical Social Work Ethics
Complex Dilemmas Within Applied Social Care
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
This is the first text of its kind to deal exclusively with applied social work ethics. It focuses on an eclectic mix of difficult moral questions or issues encountered in much modern day practice. It is therefore not theoretically driven with some practical elements attached, but is instead is a...
Social Justice and Social Work
Rediscovering a Core Value of the Profession
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Social Justice and Social Work: Rediscovering a Core Value of the Profession introduces and connects social justice to the core values of social work across the curriculum. This unique and timely book, edited by Michael J. Austin, presents the history and philosophy that supports social justice and...
by Steven Paul Schinke, James. K Whittaker, Scott Briar
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
"Behavioral Methods in Social Welfare" offers positive proof that behaviorism has come of age in social work. Steven Paul Schinke and the contributors to this volume are social work practitioners who document their attempts to extend the basic tenets of behavioral psychology from the laboratory,...
Clarity and Confusion in Social Theory
Taking Concepts Seriously
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Departing from a concern with certain ’hard’ problems in social theory and focusing instead on the theoretical strategies employed in their solution, especially on how these strategies depend on what the author calls the theoretical attitude towards language, this book considers whether these...
The Transnationalized Social Question
Migration and the Politics of Social Inequalities in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
The social question is back. Yet today's social question is not primarily between labour and capital, as it was in the nineteenth century and throughout much of the twentieth. The contemporary social question is located at the interstices between the global South and the global North. It finds its...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
In this singular collection, indigenous experts describe the social welfare systems of fifteen East Asian and Pacific Island nations and locales. Vastly understudied, these lands offer key insight into the successes and failures of Western and native approaches to social work, suggesting new directions...
Immigrants and Social Work
Thinking Beyond the Borders of the United States
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Explore an understudied but vital aspect of the immigration experience!
Until now, the American social work literature on immigration has emphasized one part of the migration process-the experiences of immigrants in this country. Country-of-origin experiences that lead to emigration have received...
Social Psychology and Social Change in Nigeria
A Systematic Evaluation of Government Social Policies and Programs
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011
Governments in the developing nations of Africa invest much of their peoples scarce resources in social development programs, often without much evaluation or any knowledge of the potential outcomes. Written by a social psychology consultant, Denis Ugwuegbu, Social Psychology and Social Development...
Social Identities
Motivational, Emotional, Cultural Influences
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
The concept of social identity occupies a central position in contemporary social psychology. Social Identities: Motivational, Emotional, Cultural Influences reports recent developments in the analysis of motivational and affective aspects of social identity processes. The book also examines the cross-cultural...
by Diane M. Rodgers
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2008
During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, natural and social scientists began comparing certain insects to human social organization. Entomologists theorized that social insects -- such as ants, bees, wasps, and termites -- organize themselves into highly specialized, hierarchical divisions...