Social Work category: 3462 books
Toward Positive Youth Development
Transforming Schools and Community Programs
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2008
Social settings have enormous power to promote or hinder positive youth development. Researchers and practitioners know a great deal about features of schools and programs for youth that affect development, but much less about how to transform settings to bring about these desirable features. This...
Delinquency Research
An Appraisal of Analytic Methods
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
This remarkable guide to delinquency studies was co-winner of the 1968 C. Wright Mills Award for the best book in the field of social problems. The work is in effect three books in one: a forthright account of how to analyze survey data, a penetrating critique of delinquency research, and a set of...
by Dr. Armand Lauffer
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
Provides readers with an array of lenses for looking at a social agency from the outside in, and from the inside out
This highly accessible text takes into account the organizational dynamics that readers are likely to have experienced and provides them with the conceptual tools for reassessing...
Digital Welfare for the Third Age
Health and social care informatics for older people
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
This book is about the ways digital technology can contribute to the welfare of older people. The Internet, mobile phones and other technologies have changed how we live and work. Such technologies also shape how services for older people are organised in ways that potentially place carers and older...
Fountain House
Creating Community in Mental Health Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Often people with mental illness feel alone in society, with no place to go and little hope. Their isolation can be further perpetuated through typical approaches to treatment, such as case management and psychotherapy.
Since 1948, the Fountain House "working community" has worked...
Learning to Change Lives
The Strategies and Skills Learning and Development Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
The Strategies and Skills Learning and Development (SSLD) system is an action-oriented model for enabling clients in social work, health, mental health, and human services settings to address their needs and life goals. In Learning to Change Lives, author A. Ka Tat Tsang introduces SSLD’s powerful...
by Jane Watt
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
Many students and qualified workers in all areas of social work feel apprehension at the prospect of writing a formal report for a court or tribunal. Writing may be a fundamental skill, but it is one that students and practitioners cannot afford to take for granted. Recent reviews (Baby P, Serious...
Resiliency Enhancement
Putting the Strength Perspective Into Social Work Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2000
This book bridges the gap between theory and implementation to illustrate how resiliency enhancement enables social workers to put the strengths perspective successfully into practice for their clients. Contributors to this volume show how social workers can use interventions to enhance those resiliency factors.
Inside Out and Outside In
Psychodynamic Clinical Theory and Psychopathology in Contemporary Multicultural Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2016
Inside Out and Outside In has established itself as a foundational book for mental health practitioners in a variety of disciplines who work with clients in complex social environments. It is unique in its focus on the forces that shape people from within and also from their social worlds, with sensitivity...
Supporting Transgender and Gender Creative Youth
Schools, Families, and Communities in Action
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2013
Supporting Transgender and Gender Creative Youth brings together cuttingedge research, social action methods, and theory on the topic of transgender youth and gender creative children. Organized in three sections covering theoretical and clinical, educational, and community perspectives, the chapters...
Quality of Life and Disability
An Approach for Community Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2003
A refreshing book that can hold the reader's interest throughout. Quality of Life and Disability should be a compulsory text for all students in the disability field and would make a useful one for experienced practitioners including social workers.'
- Australian Social Work
'Among the...
by Mukti Jain Campion
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2005
In recent years the notion of parenting and parenthood have increasingly come under examination from the media and professionals and, in particular, government and politicians. More and more, parents are being held to account by society for their failure to deliver the sort of citizens it wants. But...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2005
The contributors to this volume examine the role of mutual aid groups and social workers in helping members of oppressed, vulnerable, and resilient populations regain control over their lives. The chapters reveal the ways in which mutual aid processes help individuals overcome social and emotional...
Re-imagining child protection
Towards humane social work with families
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
Why has the language of the child and of child protection become so hegemonic? What is lost and gained by such language? Who is being protected, and from what, in a risk society? Given that the focus is overwhelmingly on those families who are multiply deprived, do services reinforce or ameliorate...