Social Work category: 3462 books

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Diary Methods

Understanding Qualitative Research

by Lauri L. Hyers
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017

Qualitative diary research is a unique tool with strengths that set it apart from other research methods. The diary prioritizes events embedded in context and time, a perspective that serves to destabilize constants, revealing the complex intersectionality of experience. Over the last several centuries,...
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by Jaqui Hewitt-Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2017

This step-by-step guide takes the reader logically through the process of undertaking a literature review, from determining when this methodology might be useful, through to publishing the findings. It is designed particularly for students undertaking a dissertation using literature review methodology....
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Practicing Social Science

Sociologists and their Craft

by Devorah Kalekin-Fishman
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016

How is the process of globalization effecting changes in the structure of knowledge in sociology? This path-breaking volume looks at the human dimension of developments in the discipline by compiling a set of interviews that exemplify the life and work of a sociologist today. Their ideas and conceptualizations...
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by David Wilkins
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013

This book will help both pre- and post-qualifying social work students gain an overview of key analysis skills by using case studies, practical examples and practice dilemmas.
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Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017

Young people who leave care with few or no educational qualifications are at very high risk of social exclusion in adulthood. Yet in the past their education has attracted little attention from researchers or professionals. Studies by the editors and contributors to this volume show that the educational...
Cover of Creating Human Development Theories: A Guide for the Social Sciences and Humanities
by R. Murray Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014

As college students progress through bachelor's degree programs and then advance to their master's degree theses and doctoral dissertations, they are bombarded with studies of countless theories, often adopting some author's theory for interpreting information about human development, even when the...
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Community Disaster Vulnerability

Theory, Research, and Practice

by Michael J. Zakour, David F. Gillespie
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012

Disaster vulnerability is rapidly increasing on a global scale, particularly for those populations which are the historical clients of the social work profession. These populations include the very young and very old, the poor, ethnic and racial minorities, and those with physical or mental disabilities. ...
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by D Patrick Zimmerman, Richard A. Epstein Jr
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013

Examine ways to help prepare young people for a successful transition from group care to community living! How can we best help young people in residential care settings prepare for life “on the outside?” The editors of On Transitions From Group Care: Homeward Bound are devoted to helping...
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Pimping the Welfare System

Empowering Participants with Economic, Social, and Cultural Capital

by Kerry C. Woodward
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013

Based on ethnographic research in Contra Costa County, California (CCC), Pimping the Welfare System highlights a welfare program implemented after welfare reform that differed in significant ways from the predominant work first approach implemented by most welfare programs. The book argues that by...
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by Paula Nicolson, Jenny Owen, Rowan Bayne
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2006

This compact and practical text applies key ideas, skills and research from psychology to contemporary social work in a variety of settings, making it easily accessible to students. Substantially revised to take account of the latest developments, this is a wide-ranging and authoritative introduction to a complex subject.
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by Claire Fitzpatrick
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2005

Society holds a popular perception that links children in public care with criminal activity, but this connection is largely assumed. This book addresses the lack of evidence supporting this potentially damaging assumption. It begins by analysing past research, critically examining current...
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Neighbourhood Watch in a Digital Age

Between Crime Control and Culture of Control

by Vasco Lub
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017

Drawing on data from 340 municipalities in the Netherlands as well as ethnographic fieldwork, this book presents original research on neighbourhood watch groups to illustrate how their actions contribute to collective efficacy and lower crime levels. Technological developments like social media and...
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by Robert J Day
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2016

All proceeds help vulneerable children and distressed families. Born to an unwed, teenage mother, his childhood of poverty, neglect and unspeakable abuse included more than 35 homes before his unlikely graduation from high school. Today, as CEO of Patrick Henry Family Services, Robert Day's...
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Bounce

Living the Resilient Life

by Robert J. Wicks
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2009

Stress is a fact of modern life. And as more and more people face greater financial insecurity, longer work hours, and the increasingly complex personal and social demands of our fast-paced, multi-tasking, high-tech lifestyle, finding healthy ways to handle stress is more important than ever. In Bounce:...
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