Social Work category: 3462 books
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Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013
Child welfare is the oldest specialization within social work practice and the only specialty area in which social work is the host profession. This edited volume provides a unique and comprehensive overview of practice issues relevant to contemporary child welfare professionals entering the field...
Sharing Assessment in Health and Social Care
A Practical Handbook for Interprofessional Working
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2009
"This is an accessible and important text. It is to be commended for bringing together policy and practice on assessment and information sharing across England, Scotland and Wales." -
Professor Michael Preston-Shoot, University of Bedfordshire
"This new text is a welcome...
by Bruce A. Thyer
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2008
The art of writing up a completed research project in a format suitable for submission to a social work journal is an ability separate from ones skills as a research methodologist. It is also an ability that, despite its importance, is often overlooked by research courses and senior-level mentors. This...
by Jane Addams
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
The classic memoir of one of the Progressive Era’s most important reformers and social activists.
If it is natural to feed the hungry . . . it is certainly natural to give pleasure to the young, comfort to the aged, and to minister to the deep-seated craving for social intercourse that all...
Making Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Work, Third Edition
Clinical Process for New Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
"What should I do when a client asks me personal questions?" "How do my client's multiple problems fit together, and which ones should we focus on in treatment?" This engaging text--now revised and updated--has helped tens of thousands of students and novice cognitive-behavioral...
Labor and Capital in the Age of Globalization
The Labor Process and the Changing Nature of Work in the Global Economy
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2001
This book offers a timely analysis of work and labor processes and how they are rapidly changing under globalization. The contributors explore traditional sectors of the U.S. and world economies - from auto to steel to agriculture - as well as work under new production arrangements, such as third...
Therapy Over 50
Aging Issues in Psychotherapy and the Therapist's Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Traditional training in counseling and psychotherapy makes minimal distinctions on the ages of the client and therapist in the treatment process. Therapy Over 50: Aging Issues in Psychotherapy and the Therapist's Life highlights how therapy is frequently a very different process for the older client...
Guide to Ethical Decisions and Actions for Social Service Administrators
A Handbook for Managerial Personnel
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
A compelling look at the ethics of social work administration and the inherent integration of ethics in social organizations.
Professional Accountability in Social Care and Health
Challenging unacceptable practice and its management
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Many social workers, health care staff and teachers maintain high standards of professionalism, often in stressful and challenging circumstances. However, research also reveals instances where individual practitioners and managers, or whole organisations, fail to act lawfully, ethically and/or carefully....
Philosophies and Practices of Emancipatory Nursing
Social Justice as Praxis
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
*** Awarded First Place in the 2015 AJN Book of the Year Award in two categories - "History and Public Policy" and "Professional Issues" ***
This anthology presents the philosophical and practice perspectives of nurse scholars whose works center on promoting nursing research, practice, and...
Creative Teamwork
Developing Rapid, Site-Switching Ethnography
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Creative Team Work describes a new way of doing rapid ethnography to capture the rich complexity and contradictions of social relations. It is about the imagination, stimulation, and reflection that can come with international, interdisciplinary teams sharing the development, application, analysis,...
At Risk
Social Justice in Child Welfare and Other Human Services
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2009
In At Risk, Karen J. Swift and Marilyn Callahan examine risk and risk assessment in the context of professional practice in child protection, social work, and other human services. They argue that the tools, technologies, and practices used to measure risk to the individual have gone unquestioned...
Mindful Co-Working
Be Confident, Happy and Productive in Your Working Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
Transform and enhance your working relationships through mindful co-working.
Are you making the most of your co-working relationships?
Most of us work with others and spend as much time with colleagues as we do with our families - so it's important our working relationships run smoothly....
Understanding Drug Misuse
Models of Care and Control
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
Key to understanding drug misuse is an awareness of the full range of models that seek to define, explain and treat the problem. This book covers the full breadth of medical, social and psychological approaches to drug use, while retaining focus on the one question which is seldom asked: What do drug...