Social Work category: 3462 books
Social Sustainability
A Multilevel Approach to Social Inclusion
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
How can we raise the standard of living of the world’s poor and maintain high levels of social health and well-being in the developed world, while simultaneously reducing the environmental damage wrought by human activity? The social dimension of sustainability is becoming recognized as a necessary...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Learn how public policies can help families provide the care their elderly relatives need
Family and Aging Policy examines how public initiatives to assist the elderly in the United States, Canada, Singapore, Denmark, and Sweden can impact families who provide them with long-term care. For...
Social Capital and Welfare Reform
Organizations, Congregations, and Communities
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
In this groundbreaking study, Jo Anne Schneider considers the reasons behind the limited success of most welfare reform initiatives and offers evidence-based recommendations for enhancing the effectiveness of welfare policy.
Schneider draws on her rich and nuanced ethnographic studies of Philadelphia,...
by Audrey L. Begun, Thomas K. Gregoire
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
This book assists new and experienced scholars in planning and conducting high quality, contemporary studies for knowledge building about substance use. The target audience is individuals new to substance use as a field of study, either as novice researchers or as experienced researchers in other...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
This Byte offers readers insight into some of the central debates and questions about gender and the family, examined through the lens of moral panic. It begins with an overview of the part played by moral panics, together with an appraisal of the work of Stanley Cohen, one of the chief architects...
Research with Diverse Groups
Research Designs and Multivariate Latent Modeling for Equivalence
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Social work researchers often conduct research with groups that are diverse in terms of gender, sexual orientation, race or ethnic background, or age. Consequently, social work researchers must take great care to establish research-design equivalence at all phases of the research process (e.g., problem...
The Survival Guide for Newly Qualified Child and Family Social Workers
Hitting the Ground Running
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2009
So, you've passed your degree and have started your first job. But are you confident about translating the theory into practice? Are you prepared to juggle the workload of a busy social worker? Do you have a plan for your continuing professional development? This practical guide provides a wealth...
by Trish Hafford-Letchfield
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
Social Care Management, Strategy and Business Planning is a comprehensive guide to strategic social care management, covering all the knowledge and skills that managers in the 21st century must have, and showing how to make theory a practical reality.
The book aims to make business planning...
by Dr. Lawrence L. Martin, Dr. Peter M. Kettner
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2009
Today stakeholders demand accountability from government and nongovernmental human service organizations. Performance measurement has become the major method of performance accountability. So how can human service organizations develop and utilize program output, quality, and outcome performance measures...
Using Technology in Human Services Education
Going the Distance
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Make the most of what today’s technology has to offer in human services education!
Distance education presents special challenges to social work education. Using Technology in Human Services Education: Going the Distance provides case studies and practical research on making the best use...
Spirituality in Social Work and Education
Theory, Practice, and Pedagogies
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
Chapter 4
Prisoners of the Story: A Role for Spirituality in Thinking and Living our Way to Sustainability
John Coates
Coates, reflecting on the role of spirituality in addressing environmental challenges in an effective and substantial way, reinforces that notion that spirituality...
School Violence in Context
Culture, Neighborhood, Family, School, and Gender
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2005
Drawing on one of the most comprehensive and representative studies of school violence ever conducted, Benbenishty and Astor explore and differentiate the many manifestations of victimization in schools, providing a new model for understanding school violence in context. The authors make striking...
Planning Later Life
Bioethics and Public Health in Ageing Societies
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
This book examines the relevance of modern medicine and healthcare in shaping the lives of elderly persons and the practices and institutions of ageing societies. Combining individual and social dimensions, Planning Later Life discusses the ethical, social, and political consequences of increasing...
African American Behavior in the Social Environment
New Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
An essential text to help to understand human behavior and the processes that guide human adaptation
Social workers and therapists need to assess the full range of aspects of their client problems such as socioeconomic status, academic achievement, parental incarceration, psychopathology, and...