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by Christina L. Erickson
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
Environmental Justice as Social Work Practice places the natural environment as central to practice. Utilizing the Phases of Practice and micro to macro levels of practice, the book integrates neatly into a college semester course. Chapters cover important components of social work such as theory,...
by Bill Jordan, Mark Drakeford
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
What has the contemporary financial context meant for social policy, social work and the relationship between them? Examining the role of political, economic and societal forces, this lively book uses a full range of supportive features to encourage reflection on the impact of austerity on different social groups, social work and social care.
Transparent and Reproducible Social Science Research
How to Do Open Science
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2019
Recently, social science has had numerous episodes of influential research that was found invalid when placed under rigorous scrutiny. The growing sense that many published results are potentially erroneous has made those conducting social science research more determined to ensure the underlying...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
Although social marketing is generally associated with communication activities and mass media, there exists a broader scope of social marketing that utilizes a systematic approach to defining concepts, behaviors, and products for promotion and distribution. Dynamics of Competitive Advantage and Consumer...
by Jane Wonnacott
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Effective supervision helps to nurture confident social workers who are able to look after service users in the best possible way. Social work supervisors and managers need mastery of the relevant knowledge and skills in order to ensure successful social work practice.
This book is an accessible...
by Lowis Charfe, Ali Gardner
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
Are you looking to understand more about social pedagogy? Wanting to see how you can incorporate these approaches into your practice?
Ali Gardner and Lowis Charfe introduce you to this exciting new approach to UK social work practice that has been shaping care services in Europe for decades.It...
Core Social Work
International Theory, Values and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
It is important for practising and trainee social workers to have a full understanding of the work they do and its role in society.
This book provides an introduction to 'the essentials' of social work. Written from an international perspective, the author details the core theory, values and...
Reflective Thinking in Social Work
Learning from student narratives
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
It is vital that social work students learn to integrate their personal and professional selves if they are to meet the challenges of social work in complex changing environments. This accessible text is designed to enable readers to explore and build on their existing skills and abilities, supporting...
Human Behavior Theory
A Diversity Framework
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
As American society becomes increasingly diverse, social workers must use a variety of human behavior frameworks to understand their clients' culturally complex concerns. This text applies specific human behavior theories to diversity practice. They show how human behavior theory can be employed in...
Praxis for the Poor
Piven and Cloward and the Future of Social Science in Social Welfare
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2002
Praxis for the Poor puts the relationship of politics to scholarship front and center through an examination of the work of Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward. Piven and Cloward proved that social science could inform social-policy politics in ways that helped energize a movement. Praxis for the...
On the Economic Significance of the Catholic Social Doctrine
125 Years of Rerum Novarum
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
This book discusses the history and socioeconomic impact of Rerum novarum, the first Catholic social encyclical. Drawn from research presented at the 2016 Heilbronn Symposia on Economics and the Social Sciences, this book resumes the discussion on the origin, dissemination and impact of the Catholic...
The Library and the Workshop
Social Democracy and Capitalism in the Knowledge Age
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
This book offers a detailed account of the way that social democracy today makes sense of capitalism. In particular, it challenges the idea that social democracy has gone "neoliberal," arguing that so-called Third Way policies seem to have brought out new aspects of a thoroughgoing social...
Transnational social work
Opportunities and challenges of a global profession
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2018
This unique book provides an international comparison of labour markets, migrant professionals and immigration policies, and their interaction in relation to social work. Case studies based on the latest research from the UK, Ireland, Canada, New Zealand and Australia allow readers to make critical...
Human Rights and Social Justice in a Global Perspective
An Introduction to International Social Work
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Recognizing the growing importance of awareness of international social issues for social workers, this thoroughly revised edition provides an updated introduction to a variety of these issues in the Global South, including AIDS, forced labor and war and conflict. A new issue in this edition is examining...