Social Work category: 3462 books
by Daniel Lee, Robert O'Gorman, Frederick L Ahearn Jr
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
The milestone text integrating the disciplines of social work and divinity!
In everyday life, spirituality and the practice of effective social work are inseparable. As a result, professionals and social service administrators have in recent years felt a stronger obligation to attend to the...
by Joanna Mellor, Joann Ivry
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
s your gerontological social work program as comprehensive-and as well attended-as it could be?
Advancing Gerontological Social Work Education will help you develop courses that effectively prepare social work students and practitioners to work with the ever-increasing older population. It...
Social Development in Social Work
Practices and Principles
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Social work has always been concerned with the development of society as the basis for achieving the well-being of individuals, families and communities. Interest in this important aspect of social work is now seeing a resurgence, not only in the ‘developing countries’ of the global South, but...
Social Work Leaders Through History
Lives and Lessons
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2018
Vividly portraying the personal and professional lives of social work luminaries from the 19th to the present century, this text links their groundbreaking contributions in social work to current CSWE core competencies. The book focuses on leaders who shaped the field across modern American history...
Political Social Work
Using Power to Create Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2017
This social work book is the first of its kind, describing practical steps that social workers can take to shape and influence both policy and politics. It prepares social workers and social work students to impact political action and subsequent policy, with a detailed real-world framework for turning...
A contemporary history of social work
Learning from the past
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2015
Drawing on lessons from the recent history of social work to identify how and why it has lost its privilege and influence, this book challenges social work students to understand why social work has failed to maintain its position as a driver of social reform. Bamford looks forward to a new model...
Doing Critical Social Work
Transformative Practices for Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2016
Critical social work encourages emancipatory personal and social change. This text focuses on the challenge of incorporating critical theory into the practice of social workers and provides case studies and insights from a range of fields to illustrate how to work with tensions and challenges.
Beginning...
Social Work and the City
Urban Themes in 21st-Century Social Work
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2016
This book critically explores ways of thinking about the city and its relevance for the profession of social work. It provides a colourful illustration of practice drawing on examples of social work responses to a range of issues emerging from the unprecedented scale, density and pace of change in...
How to be a Social Worker
A Critical Guide for Students
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
Through the course of studying social work and beyond it can be difficult to take a step back and reflect upon what it is to be a social worker, such are the demands of the process of qualification and the role itself.
Using this as a starting point, How to be a Social Worker critically examines...
by Lester Parrott
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2003
Social Work and Social Care has been revised and updated to take into account the profound changes that have occurred in social work over the past two years, in particular the extensive legislative changes to childrens and community care services. A new chapter examines the relevance of social exclusion...
Social Group Work Today and Tomorrow
Moving From Theory to Advanced Training and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
A comprehensive introduction to policy and planning approaches, methods, models, ways of thinking, and techniques, Social Group Work Today and Tomorrow is presented in a reader-friendly fashion for persons with no prior formal training in this area. The book teaches social workers, group counselors,...
by Philip R. Popple
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
The first new social work history to be written in over twenty years, Social Work Practice and Social Welfare Policy in the United States presents a history of the field from the perspective of elites, service providers, and recipients. This book uniquely chronicles and analyzes the development of...
Social Theory for Social Work
Ideas and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
Trying to understand how the world looks through the eyes of individuals and groups and how it shapes the ways they think and act is something social workers do all the time. It is what social theorists do too. This book identifies and explains in a highly accessible manner the absolute value of social...
Fostering Social Work Gerontology Competence
A Collection of Papers from the First National Gerontological Social Work Conference
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Inspire the next generation of gerontological social workers
The growing number of people over the age of 65 in the United States has increased the demand for social workers who are trained to work with the elderly—a demand that’s in danger of not being met. Fostering Social Work Gerontology...