Social category: 205239 books
Culture, Values and Ethics in Social Work
Embracing Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
This groundbreaking book examines the ways in which questions of culture and diversity impact on the values and ethics of social work. Using detailed case studies to illustrate key points for practice, Richard Hugman discusses how social workers can develop cross-cultural engagement in practice and...
Social Control
A Survey of the Foundations of Order
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Social Control falls within social psychology, which is the branch of knowledge that deals with the psychic interplay between man and his environment. In Ross' terms, one of these branches, social ascendency, deals with the domination of society over the individual. Another, individual ascendency,...
by Phillip L. Hammack
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
The twentieth century witnessed not only the devastation of war, conflict, and injustice on a massive scale, but it also saw the emergence of social psychology as a discipline committed to addressing these and other social problems. In the 21st century, however, the promise of social psychology remains...
The Group Effect
Social Cohesion and Health Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2009
Sociologists and anthropologists have had a long interest in studying the ways in which cultures shaped different patterns of health, disease, and mortality. Social scientists have documented low rates of chronic disease and disability in non-Western societies and have suggested that social stability,...
Social Engagement & the Steps to Being Social
A Practical Guide for Teaching Social Skills to Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Social Engagement & the Steps to Being Social is a unique, visual and easy to use model that was developed to guide assessment and intervention across severity levels and age groups for individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). This user friendly book defines social engagement in observable...
Social Work in the 21st Century
An Introduction to Social Welfare, Social Issues, and the Profession
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010
A student-friendly introduction to the field of social work, social welfare, and the profession of social work, social issues, and social welfare
Designed to get students excited about the profession and thinking critically about what social workers do and how they operate within the larger...
by William B. Russell III, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Since the beginning of the 20th century, the film industry has confronted, challenged, and explored various social issues through its films. Social issue films are an excellent resource for teaching social issues. Teachers will find this book to be a valuable resource for teaching social issues. This...
Social Justice in Group Work
Practical Interventions for Change
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
This book spotlights the unique contribution of the Journal for Specialists in Group Work to the social justice literature, and of group work to a social justice agenda. Although the term social justice may be relatively new in the counseling and psychology literature, the underlying values - attention...
Social Problems, Social Issues, Social Science
The Society Papers
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Sociology has tackled some of the most formidable problems that confront contemporary society: inequality, homelessness, violence, gender, and many more. Sociologists assert that hypotheses can be formulated and tested against empirical evidence, that faulty viewpoints can be uncovered and discarded,...
Connecting Spirituality and Social Justice
Conceptualizations and Applications in Macro Social Work Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Jim Wallis, well-known justice advocate and author, has stated that the two great hungers in the world today are for spirituality and social justice. Although social work and related fields have increasingly recognized the importance of addressing spirituality within clinical practice, less attention...
Durkheim and the Internet
On Sociolinguistics and the Sociological Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2018
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.
Sociolinguistic evidence is an undervalued resource for social theory. In this book, Jan Blommaert uses contemporary sociolinguistic insights to develop a new sociological...
Social Work, Social Justice, and Human Rights
A Structural Approach to Practice, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Social workers take pride in their commitment to social and economic justice, peace, and human rights, and in their responses to related inequalities and social problems. At a time when economic globalization, armed conflict, and ecological devastation continue to undermine human rights and the possibilities...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
In a world where genocide, hunger, poverty, war, and disease persist and where richer nations often fail to act to address these problems or act too late, a prerequisite to achieving even modest social justice goals is to clarify the meaning of competing discourses on the concept. Throughout history,...
Forensic Social Work
Psychosocial and Legal Issues in Diverse Practice Settings
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2009
"[T]his book provides practical practice guidance as well as...interviewing and assessment tips....[A]n invaluable source of information for students, practitioners, researchers and educators."
-Karen M. Sowers, PhD
Dean, University of Tennessee
College of Social Work
Regardless of...