Social category: 205239 books
Social Theory for Today
Making Sense of Social Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
"This book is distinctive for extending the usual sociological reach, reopening territory that has lain fallow, set aside from the well-ploughed fields of orthodox social theory. In doing so, Law not only produces fresh insight into familiar theorists but guards against collective forgetting...
Experiencing Social Work
Learning from Service Users
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2008
'Experiencing Social Work provides a refreshing change in the expanse of social work education texts. Its focus on learning from people who had received a good service from social workers drew out many of the foundation blocks of practice that can so easily be minimised in favour of 'deeper academic...
Everyday Social Justice and Citizenship
Perspectives for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
Social justice is a concept which is widely touted and lauded as desirable, yet its meaning may differ depending on whether its focus is on the underlying values of social justice, the more specific objectives these entail, or the actual practices or policies which aim to achieve social justice. In...
Connected Communities
Networks, Identity, and Social Change in the Ancient Cibola World
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
The Cibola region on the Arizona–New Mexico border has fascinated archaeologists for more than a century. The region’s core is recognized as the ancestral homeland of the contemporary Zuni people, and the area also spans boundaries between the Ancestral Puebloan and Mogollon culture areas. The...
by Siobhan Maclean, Jo Finch, Prospera Tedam
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
This book is written by three social work educators with over 70 years' experience of social work practice and education between them. Concerned about the profession of social work in the UK, the authors have devised a new model of social work called 'SHARE'. As the book discusses, one of the key...
by Dr. Bruce A. Thyer, PhD, LCSW
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
"Science is a way of thinking about and investigating the accuracy of assumptions about the world. It is a process for solving problems in which we learn from our mistakes. Social work has a long history of social reform and helping efforts. Let us continue this by paying attention to the important...
by Judy Foster
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
How has social work changed over the years? What are some of the best social work teams doing differently to meet the complex practical and emotional needs of service users? What practical tools and approaches can social work managers implement with their teams? Dr. Judy Foster examines good social...
Group Psychology and The Analysis of The Ego
Illustrated & Psychology Glossary & Index Added Inside
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
In Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego, (1922), Sigmund Freud based his preliminary description of group psychology on Le Bon's work, but went on to develop his own, original theory, related to what he had begun to elaborate in Totem and Taboo. Theodor Adorno reprised Freud's essay in 1951...
by Tuula Heinonen, Deana Halonen, Elizabeth Krahn
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2018
How can social workers integrate expressive arts methods as a complement to their work to better support individual, group, and community growth? Expressive Arts for Social Work and Social Change explores the values and benefits of expressive arts (i.e., visual arts, movement and dance, expressive...
by Roberta Greene
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
This new edition of Human Behavior Theory and Social Work Practice provides a broadly synthetic approach to selecting theoretical concepts crucial to one's activities in casework. Centered on the notion of the client as an individual, Roberta Greene and the contributing authors examine the biological,...
by Pauline Bibby
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This book is aimed at employers, managers and staff in social work agencies. Historically there has been a slowness to acknowledge the risks which social workers routinely face and some employers have adopted a re-active approach, waiting for incidents to occur before taking action. They are thus...
Social Skills
Developing Effective Interpersonal Communication
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
What can we do to help those who struggle to develop effective social skills?
Social Skills: Developing Effective Interpersonal Communication is a definitive guide to understanding and meeting the needs of those who have difficulty with social skills. Written in a clear and accessible manner,...
Social Work and Sustainability in Asia
Facing the Challenges of Global Environmental Changes
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
The rapid trend of globalization has brought with it a variety of sustainability challenges, including global climate change, biodiversity loss, poverty, and social inequalities, which are problems with unclear boundaries, complicated interrelated components, undefined parameters, contradictory values,...
Searchers, Seers, and Shakers
Masters of Social Science
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
This volume offers intellectual portraits of eleven giants of the modern social sciences. It is bound by two central themes. The first is that there is a fundamental unity behind the various forms of social science. There is a general social science as well as a variety of social science disciplines....