Social Work category: 3462 books

Cover of Social Work Profession: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide
by June Gary Hopps, Tony Lowe, Vanessa Robinson-Dooly
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...
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Practising Social Work Sociologically

A Theoretical approach for New Times

by Priscilla Dunk-West, Fiona Verity
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018

This timely and much needed text book presents an innovative, theoretically based approach that helps students, practitioners and researchers alike orientate their view and sensibilities in a rapidly evolving modern world. Traditional social work approaches are often ill-equipped to take into account...
Cover of Global social work in a political context
by Ferguson, Iain, Ioakimidis
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018

How is social work shaped by global issues and international problems and how should it address them? This book employs a radical perspective to examine international social work. Globalisation had opened up many issues for social work, including how to address global inequalities, the impact of global...
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Best Practice with Children and Families

Critical Social Work Stories

by Barry Cooper, Jean Gordon, Andy Rixon
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2014

Social work practice with children, young people and families is complex, highly skilled - and fascinating. Writing about social work increasingly acknowledges the complexities and uncertainties of practice but rarely features the voice of the social worker themselves. This book takes a different...
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Social Work ASWB Advanced Generalist Practice Test

170 Questions to Identify Knowledge Gaps

by Dawn Apgar, PhD, LSW
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2017

Reflects ASWB’s revised 2018 test blueprint used for test construction. Written by a highly-respected social work educator rather than an unknown at a test preparation company, this full-length practice test with answers and rationales covers all the content areas of the updated 2018 ASWB®...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012

This Handbook is the world's first generic major reference work to provide an authoritative guide to the theory, method, and values of social work in one volume. Drawn from an international field of excellence, the contributors each offer a critical analysis of their individual area of expertise....
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War, Violence and Social Justice

Theories for Social Work

by Masoud Kamali
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016

This book analyses the role of war and violence (in both its physical and symbolic forms) for social work in a time of neoliberal globalisation from a social justice perspective. It argues that the consequences of wars, in both their old and new forms, and the exercise of symbolic violence for the...
Cover of School Social Work: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide
by Paula Allen-Meares, Cynthia Franklin, Laura Hopson
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...
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Sociology for Social Work

An Introduction

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Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2010

This excellent textbook introduces the social work student to the field of sociology, illustrating how sociology is connected to and fundamental to effective social work practice. Each chapter applies theory to practice and is uniquely co-written by a sociologist, social worker and service user. A...
Cover of Achieving Competence in Social Work through Field Education
by Marion Bogo
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2010

Field education is considered by social workers to be the most crucial part of their professional preparation, as it allows students to engage with communities, apply theoretical concepts, and develop their skill sets. In Achieving Competence in Social Work Through Field Education, Marion Bogo synthesizes...
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Social Work ASWB Bachelors Practice Test, Second Edition

170 Questions to Identify Knowledge Gaps

by Dawn Apgar, PhD, LSW
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017

Print version of the book includes free access to the app (web, iOS, and Android), which offers interactive Q&A review plus the entire text of the print book! Please note the app is included with print purchase only. Written by a highly-respected social work educator rather than an unknown...
Cover of Social Work with Adults
by Martin Davies
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012

This best-selling book explores the crucial role of social workers in securing a better future for vulnerable and disadvantaged adult service users. Tacking the problems most common to this branch of social work it focuses on four major themes: personalization; mental health; substance use; and old...
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by Natalie Bates, Di Galpin
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2009

Based on the experiences of social work practitioners, this book provides a detailed account of contemporary practice issues that can influence social work with adults. Written by different authors, each chapter covers a range of topical debates from the assessment of needs, rights and risk in learning...
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Interprofessional Social Work

Effective Collaborative Approaches

by Ms Anne Quinney, Ms Trish Hafford-Letchfield
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012

All Social Work students are required to undertake specific learning and assessment in partnership working and information sharing across professional disciplines and agencies. Increasingly, social workers are also finding that they need to deal with a wide range of other professions as part of their...
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