Social Work category: 3462 books
by Hillel Schmid
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
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Organizational and Structural Dilemmas in Nonprofit Human Service Organizations explores the common pitfalls that plague nonprofit human service organizations and cause them to fail in their missions. In this book,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2010
This book explores a wide range of theoretical perspectives that guide the practice of community and youth work and related occupational fields. It provides a range of practical activities to encourage readers to explore their own theoretical position, while critically engaging with the contemporary...
The Lioness in Winter
Writing an Old Woman's Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
When she started working with the aged more than forty years ago, Ann Burack-Weiss began storing the knowledge and skills she thought would help when she got old herself. It was not until she hit her mid-seventies that she realized she had packed sneakers to climb Mount Everest, not anticipating the...
Being Critically Reflective
Engaging in Holistic Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2014
Many students and practitioners are familiar with critical reflection but struggle to make space for it in their everyday practice. This book provides an accessible and practical introduction not only to doing critical reflection, but to being critically reflective.
• It demonstrates how...
by Bill Engleson
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2013
November on the Canadian West Coast; it’s often wet, miserable and dark. Lives get messy; streets are unsafe. Wally Rose is a brooding, sporadically up-beat, old-time social worker. Carla Prentice is an overwhelmed, single mother of two teenagers, one who has lost his way, another who may be losing...
Social Development
Relationships in Infancy, Childhood, and Adolescence
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
This authoritative, engaging work examines the key role of relationships in child and adolescent development, from the earliest infant-caregiver transactions to peer interactions, friendships, and romantic partnerships. Sections cover foundational developmental science, the self and relationships,...
In the Name of the Child
A Developmental Approach to Understanding and Helping Children of Conflicted and Violent Divorce, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2009
"Johnston, Roseby, and Kuehnle take you behind the child's eyes, into their heads...[they] flesh out the familial context, and bring it all back into the larger social world....When you are done reading, you know who these families are, what the children need, and -- as a clinician -- how you...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Postmodern ideas have been vastly influential in the social sciences and beyond. However, their impact on the study of social policy has been minimal. Postmodernity and the Fragmentation of Welfare analyses the potential for a postmodern or cultural turn in welfare as it treats postmodernity as an...
Domestic Violence
Intersectionality and Culturally Competent Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2010
In Domestic Violence: Intersectionality and Culturally Competent Practice, experts working with twelve unique groups of domestic abuse survivors provide the latest research on their populations and use a case study approach to demonstrate culturally sensitive intervention strategies. Chapters focus...
Critical Service Learning Toolkit
Social Work Strategies for Promoting Healthy Youth Development
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2017
Critical Service Learning Toolkit offers a strengths-based, interdisciplinary approach to promoting social competence while enhancing emotional and academic skill development. Designed as a user-friendly guide to carrying out successful CSL projects, this Toolkit provides practitioners with step-by-step...
Handbook of Psychosocial Interventions with Older Adults
Evidence-based approaches
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
In the past decade, evidence based practice (EBP) has emerged as one of the most important movements to improve the effectiveness of clinical care. As the number of older adults continues to grow, it is essential that practitioners have knowledge of effective strategies to improve both the medical...
by David Hodge
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
Spirituality often plays a critical role in health and wellness, yet few have explored in detail the process through which practitioners can identify and use clients' spiritual strengths to their mutual advantage. To address this gap, this practice-oriented text equips helping professionals with the...
Social Work Research and Evaluation
Foundations of Evidence-Based Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2010
Over thirty years of input from instructors and students have gone into this popular research methods text, resulting in a refined ninth edition that is easier to read, understand, and apply than ever before. Using unintimidating language and real-world examples, it introduces students to the key...
by Chris Rojek
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
First published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.