Social category: 205239 books
Social Work Practices
Contemporary Perspectives on Change
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 1999
`Karen Healy has written a very interesting and worthwhile book that explores the relevance and significance of postmodern theory to social work. It provides a well-argued account of recent developments in social work theory… However, it is not simply an account of theory, as considerable effort...
by Carlton Munson, James G Daley
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Social Work Practice in the Military provides military social workers, military scholars, and civilian social workers with an overview of diverse practice settings as well as the history and future of military social work practice to give you an understanding of the military persona as an ethnic identity....
Reconsidering Social Constructionism
Social Problems and Social Issues
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
With the impact of social interactionist and ethnographic methodology twenty-five years ago, the research agenda in social problems began to shift its focus, giving rise to the Social Constructionism movement. The present volume and the related shorter text, Constructionist Controversies, review the...
by Tuukka Kaidesoja
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
This important book provides detailed critiques of the method of transcendental argumentation and the transcendental realist account of the concept of causal power that are among the core tenets of the bhaskarian version of critical realism. Kaidesoja also assesses the notions of human agency, social...
Social Protection and Social Development
International Initiatives
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
The Social Protection Floor Initiative promotes universal access to essential social transfers and services. Presently 80% of the global population does not enjoy a set of social guarantees that allows them to deal with life’s risks such as unemployment, ill health, and natural disasters. This book...
The Social Scientific Gaze
The Social Question and the Rise of Academic Social Science in Sweden
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
The social sciences have, ever since they were first established as academic disciplines, played a foundational role in most spheres of modern society - in policy-making, education, the media and public debate - and hence also, indirectly, for our self-understanding as social beings. The Social Scientific...
Spirituality in Social Work
New Directions
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
As Spirituality in Social Work: New Directions shows you, there has been an increase of interest among social workers concerning spiritual matters. In response to this collective interest, Edward Canda and several other members of the Society for Spirituality and Social Work have compiled a thorough...
Clinical Work and Social Action
An Integrative Approach
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Clinical Work and Social Action: An Integrative Approach develops a paradigm for social work and human services practice that integrates clinical work and social action.
Social workers, clinicians, activists, and educators will explore ways to create harmony in the divisions that currently...
by Muhammad Hussein Noure Elahi
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
Sociology is the study of human social relationships and institutions. Sociology’s subject matter is diverse, ranging from crime to religion, from the family to the state, from the divisions of race and social class to the shared beliefs of a common culture, and from social stability to radical change...
by James DeFronzo, Jungyun Gill
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2019
Intended as the primary text for a social problems course, DeFronzo and Gill’s Social Problems and Social Movements stresses the need for collective action and social movements to solve social problems. Both instructors and students will find this a useful framework in which to view today’s most...
Social Work and Social Justice
Concepts, Challenges, and Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Social Work and Social Justice transcends discussions of abstract social justice concepts and goals by focusing on how these concepts can be used as guides for socially just practice at the interpersonal, organizational, community, and societal levels. In addition to emphasizing the importance of...
A Dream Deferred
How Social Work Education Lost Its Way and What Can be Done
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
From its inception in the late nineteenth century, social work has struggled to carry out the complex, sometimes contradictory, functions associated with reducing suffering, enhancing social order, and social reform. Since then, social programs like the implementation of welfare and the expansion...
Social Work in Health Care
A Handbook for Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Here is an outstanding reference book of major readings in the field of social work in health care. Practitioners, educators, researchers, and students can use this landmark two-part volume to review dominant themes and critical issues in today’s practice environment and to understand the evolution...
by Dr. Lyn Slater, PhD, Kara Finck
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2011
"This is the first book to give social workers the tools to understand their clients' legal needs and rights and to address them collaboratively and effectively. Lyn Slater and Kara Finck ground their text in a comprehensive grasp of the legal system and the inequities of race, class, and gender...