Social Services category: 2206 books
Social Change and Social Work
The Changing Societal Conditions of Social Work in Time and Place
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Social Change and Social Work discusses and examines how social work is challenged by social, political and economic tendencies going on in current societies. The authors ask how social work as a discipline and practice is encountering global and local transformations. Divided into three parts, topics...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
Social justice and social policy in Scotland offers a critical engagement with the state of social policy in one of the devolved nations of the UK, a decade after the introduction of devolution. Promoting greater social justice has been held up as a key vision of successive Scottish administrations...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
An Introduction to Social Policy explores essential welfare topics, themes and issues for students studying social policy or related disciplines such as sociology, social work, or nursing and social care.
- Part One examines key concepts including welfare, social justice, diversity and health...
Global Social Transformation and Social Action: The Role of Social Workers
Social Work-Social Development Volume III
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Global social transformation calls for global social action. 2010 saw the launch of The Global Agenda for Social Work and Social Development, which detailed how social workers can strive to bring about increased social justice. The time is right to start to address and demonstrate the actions that...
by John Greve
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
This is the first work that systematically applies the comparative method to the study of social policy and administration. After a full discussion of this approach in the introduction, the book offers three authoritative national studies--France, Norway, Canada--each giving a rounded picture of social...
Social workers affecting social policy
An International perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2014
Furthering social justice and human rights is a fundamental principle underlying the social work profession. Engaging in social policy formulation processes is a major route through which social workers can realise this goal. This type of social work activity has been termed ‘policy practice’....
The Social Contract
or, Principles of Political Rights
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2018
The Social Contract, originally published as On the Social Contract; or, Principles of Political Rights (French: Du contrat social; ou Principes du droit politique) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, is a 1762 book in which Rousseau theorized about the best way to establish a political community in the face...
A Social Laboratory for Modern France
The Musée Social and the Rise of the Welfare State
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2002
As a nineteenth-century think tank that sought answers to France’s pressing “social question,” the Musée Social reached across political lines to forge a reformist alliance founded on an optimistic faith in social science. In A Social Laboratory for Modern France Janet R. Horne presents the...
Right Social Justice
Better ways to help the poor
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
For decades, Social Justice has been trumpeted as the means of assisting the downtrodden. Rarely have any of its proponents proved that it is other than an egalitarian ideology, without an analytical base. Assisting the poor may be a good thing but only if programs to aid them are effective and only...
Green Social Work
From Environmental Crises to Environmental Justice
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
Social work is the profession that claims to intervene to enhance people's well-being. However, social workers have played a low-key role in environmental issues that increasingly impact on people's well-being, both locally and globally.
This compelling new contribution confronts this topic...
Good Intentions Are Not Enough
Why We Fail at Helping Others
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Disaster strikes, transforming cities and towns into graveyards and wastelands in a matter of minutes. But help is on its way: news channels and social media relay the information to all corners of the globe in real-time, mobilising hundreds of people and organisations to aid. Yet, with standard relief...
Social Work Reclaimed
Innovative Frameworks for Child and Family Social Work Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Reclaiming Social Work (RSW) is a radical new system for delivering child and family social work in the UK. The system was first piloted in the London Borough of Hackney and the model has gained national recognition. At the heart of this innovative system is the endeavour to keep children together...
Social policies and social control
New perspectives on the 'not-so-big society'
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
Drawing on a wide array of policy domains and events, this book provides an innovative account of social control and behaviourism within welfare systems and social policies, and the implications for disadvantaged groups. This accessible collection reviews the controls, assumptions and persuasions...
Irish social policy (second edition)
A critical introduction
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
This 2nd edition of a highly respected textbook offers a comprehensive introduction to Irish social policy. It provides an accessible, critical overview taking account of significant changes over recent years. The book is organised across four key sections: 1: Traces the emergence and development...