Social Work category: 3462 books
by Mrs Sue Jones
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Social work agencies want newly-qualified workers who can practice as highly motivated and self-flourishing professionals. To get to this stage, social work degree students need to be critical, analytical and evaluative in their thinking, reading and writing. And while lecturers may highlight this...
Social Work Supervision
Contexts and Concepts
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2004
A book on social work supervision is desperately needed to bridge the gap between the demands of the field and the absence of literature. Social Work Supervision: Contexts and Concepts aims to provide readers with basic knowledge of theories, research, and practice of supervision. The book addresses...
by Mark Baldwin
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
A critical characteristic of human service organizations is their capacity to learn from experience and to adapt continuously to changing external conditions such as downward pressure on resources, constant reconfiguration of the welfare state and rapidly changing patterns of social need. This invaluable,...
Social work in the community
Making a difference
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Social work in the community offers practice guidance to students, practice assessors and practitioners within a political, theoretical, methodological and ethical framework. The book is written from an experiential learning perspective, enabling the reader not only to understand the ideas and methods...
Going Local
Working in Communities and Neighbourhoods
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2007
Going Local explains how social work students and practitioners can develop approaches to neighbourhood work, to engage communities and neighbourhoods more purposefully and to work with citizens and other mainstream and community service providers to build the capacity of neighbourhoods to tackle...
Social work
The rise and fall of a profession?
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2010
This book traces the changing fortunes of radical and critical social work, and examines the theory, context and application of such approaches. Radical social work of the 1970s declined as the rise of neoliberalism over subsequent decades changed the nature of the welfare state along with what social...
How to Become a Better Manager in Social Work and Social Care
Essential Skills for Managing Care
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Social work and social care managers often find themselves in management positions without having had any formal management training, yet skills and knowledge specific to social care settings are essential for effective practice.
This book offers a researched and practical guide to the fundamental...
Older People, Ageing and Social Work
Knowledge for practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
'Essential reading for practitioners, educators and researchers within the general field of social work with older people.' - From the foreword by Mark Lymbery, Associate Professor of Social Work, University of Nottingham
The reality of our ageing population means all social workers need to...
Social Work Under Pressure
How to Overcome Stress, Fatigue and Burnout in the Workplace
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Stress, fatigue and burnout are serious problems in the social work profession. High case loads, staff shortages, budget cuts and the challenging nature of the job contribute to high levels of stress, and social workers can crack under the pressure. This accessible book demonstrates how managers and...
Social Work with Troubled Families
A Critical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2015
A critical introduction to the Troubled Families Programme (TFP), this book explores the roots, significance and effectiveness of troubled family approaches in social work.
An important strand of government social policy, the TFP gives rise to a number of ethical and political questions about...
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...
Social Group Work
Competence and Values in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Here is an exciting and stimulating book featuring expert evaluations and descriptions of current social work group practice with an overall focus on competence and values. The contributors give detailed information on group work theory, group structure, gender and race issues in group work, group...
The Life Model of Social Work Practice
Advances in Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2008
Originally published in 1980, this seminal work was the first to introduce an ecological perspective into social work practice. The third edition expands and deepens this perspective, further developing the basic premise that, by being situated within the people:environment interface, the social work...
by Allen Rubin
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of social work find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data...