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How to Become a Better Manager in Social Work and Social Care
Essential Skills for Managing Care
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Social work and social care managers often find themselves in management positions without having had any formal management training, yet skills and knowledge specific to social care settings are essential for effective practice.
This book offers a researched and practical guide to the fundamental...
by Beth Perry, Tim May
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
What are the critical gaps in thinking about reflexivity and social research?
How is reflexive practice shaped by the contexts and cultures in which researchers work?
How might research practice respond to twin demands of excellence and relevance in the knowledge-based economy?
Thinking...
Learning in Later Life
Challenges for Social Work and Social Care
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
Within the UK and Europe, government legislation and policies concerned with demography have asserted a paradigmatic shift towards the increased engagement of older people with public services. The philosophy of user involvement and co-production within these contexts has become integral to finding...
Social Media in Southeast Turkey
Love, Kinship and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
This book presents an ethnographic study of social media in Mardin, a medium-sized town located in the Kurdish region of Turkey. The town is inhabited mainly by Sunni Muslim Arabs and Kurds, and has been transformed in recent years by urbanisation, neoliberalism and political events.
Elisabetta...
Theorising Modernity
Reflexivity, Environment & Identity in Giddens' Social Theory
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
What is modernity? Do we all experience modernity in the same way? How should we understand contemporary social change? This volume explores questions of modernity through critical engagements with the work of Anthony Giddens, focusing in particular on the relationships between his social theory and...
East Asian Social Movements
Power, Protest, and Change in a Dynamic Region
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2011
In the study of civil society and social movements, most cases are based in Western Europe and North America. These two areas of the world have similar histories and political ideals and structures in common which in turn, affect the structure of its civil society. In studying civil society in Asia,...
Introduction to Computational Social Science
Principles and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
This reader-friendly textbook is the first work of its kind to provide a unified Introduction to Computational Social Science (CSS). Four distinct methodological approaches are examined in detail, namely automated social information extraction, social network analysis, social complexity theory and...
Inside the College Gates
How Class and Culture Matter in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2011
To date, scholars in higher education have examined the ways in which students' experiences in the classroom and the human capital they attain impact social class inequalities. In this book, Jenny Stuber argues that the experiential core of college life-the social and extra-curricular worlds of higher...
Hospital Social Work
The Interface of Medicine and Caring
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Hospital Social Work introduces the reader to the world of medicine and social work as seen through the eyes of actual social workers. An essential reference for both students and professionals.
Over 100 social workers in dozens of hospitals were interviewed to provide the reader with first-hand...
Angles Of Vision
How To Understand Social Problems
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Angles of Vision is a compact text that provides students with basic information about social problems and teaches them a strategy for understanding these issues. Students learn how to distinguish between individual and structural analyses and the importance of placing issues in a historical and international...
Contemporary Social Studies
An Essential Reader
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
The field of social studies is unique and complex. It is challenged by the differing perspectives related to the definition, goals, content, and purpose of social studies. Contemporary Social Studies: An Essential Reader discusses the contemporary issues surrounding social studies education today....
Social Group Work Today and Tomorrow
Moving From Theory to Advanced Training and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
A comprehensive introduction to policy and planning approaches, methods, models, ways of thinking, and techniques, Social Group Work Today and Tomorrow is presented in a reader-friendly fashion for persons with no prior formal training in this area. The book teaches social workers, group counselors,...
Mindfulness and Acceptance in Social Work
Evidence-Based Interventions and Emerging Applications
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Social work focuses on serving the most vulnerable members of society, and social workers must often address the contextual forces that contribute to human problems. Mindfulness and acceptance are powerful tools for this practice. By offering interventions like dialectical behavior therapy (DBT),...
From Intervention to Social Change
A Guide to Reshaping Everyday Practices
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
This book explores the design, communication and implementation of social change programmes aimed at solving various social problems, from reducing health-risk behaviour to ’green’ consumption or financial literacy. Examining the application of social practice theory as a way of understanding...