Social category: 205239 books
Critical Ethics of Care in Social Work
Transforming the Politics and Practices of Caring
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
This book argues that the concept of care is a political and a moral concept. As such, it enables us to examine moral and political life through a radically different lens. The editors and contributors to the book argue that care has the potential to interrogate relationships of power and to be a...
by Kieron Hatton
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015
‘Hatton’s book is a welcome antidote to stagnation and moribund thinking in contemporary professional practice and readers will gain much from engaging with the concepts he sets out and the challenges he raises.’
Jonathan Parker, Series Editor
Since the first edition of Kieron...
Social Action with Children and Families
A Community Development Approach to Child and Family Welfare
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Meeting the needs of children at the same time as promoting family life is more than a question of resources: it needs a culture change in social services: a rediscovery and a modernization of the social action and community development traditions in social work. In Social Action with Children and...
How to be a Social Worker
A Critical Guide for Students
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2018
This textbook equips social work students with the tools to develop a social work identity. It provides a critical examination of the knowledge base of social work – from human growth and development to social work research – and explores how a practitioner’s own values, principles and experience...
Social Cognition
An Integrated Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
The Third Edition of this much celebrated textbook continues to focus on the four major and influential perspectives in contemporary social psychology - social cognition, social identity, social representations, and discursive psychology. A foundational chapter presenting an account of these perspectives...
by Pete Feldon
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
The Care Act 2014 is arguably the most significant piece of legislation for social workers who work with adults, since the NHS and Community Care Act 1990. The intention of this book is to present the information from the act, regulations and statutory guidance in a way that provides social workers...
by Siobhan Maclean
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
This is the third edition of this popular straightforward guide for social work students. Written by two experienced practice educators, the book is designed to address the anxieties that many social work students have about social work theory and the way it relates to practice. The guide provides...
Social Understanding and Social Lives
From Toddlerhood through to the Transition to School
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2011
Winner of the British Psychological Society Book Award (Academic Monograph category) 2013!
Over the past thirty years, researchers have documented a remarkable growth in children’s social understanding between toddlerhood and the early school years. However, it is still unclear why some children’s...
Neuroscience for Social Work
Current Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
This clear and accessible guideówritten by social workers for social workersódescribes the most current developments in neuroscience and their practical applications for social work in education, child welfare, health, mental health, and criminal justice settings. The contributions of social work...
Anti-Social Behaviour
A multi-national perspective of the everyday to the extreme
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
“Neatly and succinctly takes readers through ways to understand and interpret the label of ‘antisocial’ behaviour in a wider context, showing how it is socially, historically and culturally produced as well as understood in professional health and policing or correctional contexts.”
- Cathy...
by Shulamith L A Straussner, Larry Harrison
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Examine the worldwide phenomenon of substance abuse and addiction!
International Aspects of Social Work Practice in the Addictions examines current social work practice in the addictions around the world. Researchers and practitioners address the abuse of and addiction to alcohol and other...
HIV, AIDS, and the Law
Legal Issues for Social Work Practice and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Although morbidity among HIV/AIDS victims has decreased, the rate of new infections has remained steady for several years, substantially increasing the likelihood that this epidemic will continue and expand as a concern for social workers and their clientele, both of whom will need to be kept informed...
by Susanne Elsen
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Worldwide societal problems such as mass unemployment, growing social disparities, public and private poverty, social exclusion, environmental destruction and the evidence of climate change are increasing and becoming ever more visible. They require urgent and sustainable long-term solutions.
Eco-Social...
Emotion and Social Structures
The Affective Foundations of Social Order
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
The past decades have seen significant advances in the sociological understanding of human emotion. Sociology has shown how culture and society shape our emotions and how emotions contribute to micro- and macro-social processes. At the same time, the behavioral sciences have made progress in understanding...