Social Work category: 3462 books
Accountability in Social Services
The Culture of the Paper Program
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
Accountability in Social Services examines how - and why - social and human services programs can function even though they are monitored by written communication instead of face-to-face interaction. Author Jill Florence Lackey draws on her experience as a consultant for more than 50 social programs...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
The impetus for this book is the shift in welfare policy in Western Europe from state responsibilities to individual and community responsibilities. The book examines the ways in which policies associated with advanced liberalism and New Public Management can be identified as influencing professional...
A Handbook of Children and Young People's Participation
Perspectives from Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
A Handbook of Children and Young People's Participation brings together key thinkers and practitioners from diverse contexts across the globe to provide an authoritative overview of contemporary theory and practice around children’s participation.
Promoting the participation of children and...
by Simon Bradford
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
How can sociology inform our understanding of young people's experiences? Introducing core theories by drawing on a range of cultural resources - from pioneering research to genre-defining films - this book demonstrates how a sociological imagination can enhance informal educational and social welfare approaches to work with young people.
Learning in Later Life
Challenges for Social Work and Social Care
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
Within the UK and Europe, government legislation and policies concerned with demography have asserted a paradigmatic shift towards the increased engagement of older people with public services. The philosophy of user involvement and co-production within these contexts has become integral to finding...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Social exclusion attempts to make sense out of multiple deprivations and inequities experienced by people and areas, and the reinforcing effects of reduced participation, consumption, mobility, access, integration, influence and recognition. This book works from a multidisciplinary approach across...
Women's Issues for a New Generation
A Social Work Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
How do you "hook" a Millennial student into caring about women's issues when feminism has been declared dead for decades? Written in an engaging style that promotes critical thinking, Women's Issues for a New Generation is intended for freshman- and sophomore-level undergraduates who have...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
When community and family support systems are weak or unavailable, and when internal resources fail, populations that struggle with chronic, persistent, acute, and/or unexpected problems become vulnerable to physical, cognitive, emotional, and social deterioration. Yet despite numerous risk factors,...
How Institutions are Shaping the Future of Our Children
For Better or for Worse?
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Improve services for children and youth with new concepts, different perspectives, and up-to-date information!
How Institutions are Shaping the Future of Our Children: For Better or for Worse? explores the positive and negative impacts of social institutions on child and adolescent well-being....
Parenting by Men Who Batter
New Directions for Assessment and Intervention
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2006
What is the best way to work with fathers who have a history of abusive behavior? This question is among the thorniest that social service and criminal justice professionals must deal with in their careers, and in this essential new work Jeffrey L. Edleson, Oliver J. Williams, and a group of international...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
"This much-needed volume brings to the clinician or student some of the best critical-minded analysis by some of the most insightful thinkers about psychiatric diagnosis today. The thought-provoking questions these essays raise, and the multifaceted and provocative answers they provide, cultivate...
Good Practice in the Law and Safeguarding Adults
Criminal Justice and Adult Protection
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2008
Good Practice in the Law and Safeguarding Adults provides an up-to-date summary of developments in the legislative framework and best practice relevant to the area of adult protection work.
It explains legislation that can be used in adult protection work, covering criminal and civil law, and...
Attachment and Dynamic Practice
An Integrative Guide for Social Workers and Other Clinicians
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2007
Contemporary attachment theory both enriches our understanding of human development and informs clinical practice. Examining the relational bonds between young children and their caregivers, it traces its origins to several scientific and social fields, most notably psychoanalysis, social work, behaviorism,...
Social Welfare Policy
Regulation and Resistance Among People of Color
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2010
Applying the social control paradigm to people of color, this text uses a racism-centered perspective of social welfare policy analysis to examine how such policies have regulated the lives of people of color and then employs a strengths-based approach to describe how they have refused to go along...