Social Work category: 3462 books
Sexual Orientation and Gender Expression in Social Work Practice
Working with Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender People
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
This volume offers an invaluable resource for both social work educators and practitioners working with gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) clients and their families. It is the first such work to specifically address issues affecting bisexual and transgender people as well as the larger...
From Poor Law to Welfare State, 6th Edition
A History of Social Welfare in America
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Over twenty-five years and through five editions, Walter I. Trattner's From Poor Law to Welfare State has served as the standard text on the history of welfare policy in the United States. The only comprehensive account of American social welfare history from the colonial era to the present, the new...
by Carole Trotter, Ian Gunn, Joanne Franks
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Take the guesswork out of BTEC assessment with sample student work and assessor feedback for all pass, merit and distinction criteria.
By focusing on assessment this compact guide leads students through each pass, merit and distinction criterion by clearly showing them what they are required...
by Paula Beesley, Melanie Watts, Mary Harrison
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
What is communication and why is it important? Our ability to communicate is central to everyday life and an essential skill in social work. This easy-to-read book offers a step-by-step guide to developing effective communication skills with a diverse range of service users and professionals. It...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Autoethnography is an innovative approach to inquiry located in the interstices between science and literature. Blending researcher and subject roles, autoethnographers use analytical strategies to explore the social and cultural contexts of meaningful life experiences and their implications for the...
Multicultural and International Approaches in Social Work Practice
An Intercultural Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
Building upon the author’s integrative and interactive ideas about human services fields, this book presents an intercultural perspective of social work education, practice, and research with culturally–linguistically-relationally underprivileged minority groups in the local and global communities,...
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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,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
As awareness and identification of sex trafficking and exploitation have grown, so has the need for improved social work responses. In this volume, expert practitioners, survivors, and researchers model the best practices for working with this population, using case examples and illustrative guides....
Walk into Your Season
The Art of Cultural Work
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
The significance of Walk into Your Season is that it ponders whether a cultural worker can renew the role of free spaces of empowerment to address power differentials utilizing key contributors such as the traditions and language of a culture; the cultural workers potential to facilitate action and...
Social Work and the Community
A Critical Context for Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2008
How important is the notion of community to skilled social work? This book explores how the concept relates to policy, theory and professional practice. With analysis of contemporary social problems throughout a variety of community settings, this book demonstrates how important community-based approaches are to all social workers today.
Confronting Prejudice
Lesbian and Gay Issues in Social Work Education
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This book brings lesbian and gay issues to the centre of the debate on anti-oppressive practice. It is an accessible and practical guide to the subject for all involved in student learning, aiming to provide practice teachers and educators with tools to help students develop their understanding of...
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy in Schools
A 360-Degree View of the Research and Practice Principles
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Since the publication of the First Edition, there have been several advances on the research on Solution-focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) in schools. This Second Edition contains updates on how to apply SFBT to specific problem areas that school social workers frequently encounter. Each chapter has been...
The Child's Own Story
Life Story Work with Traumatized Children
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2004
Helping traumatized children develop the story of their life and the lives of people closest to them is key to their understanding and acceptance of who they are and their past experiences. The Child's Own Story is an introduction to life story work and how this effective tool can be used to help...
Mediation in Family Disputes
Principles of Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
This is the authoritative textbook on family mediation. As well as mediators, this work will be indispensable for practitioners and scholars across a wide range of fields, including social work and law. It draws on a wide cross-disciplinary theoretical literature and on the author's extensive and...