Social Work category: 3462 books
The Social Work-Medicine Relationship
100 Years at Mount Sinai
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
An absorbing exploration of the growth of social work at the Mount Sinai Medical Center
The Social Work-Medicine Relationship: 100 Years at Mount Sinai explores the lessons learned in the formation and management of social work departments in health care, through the perspective of the hospital...
Social Work
A Companion to Learning
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2007
'This engaging and stimulating book is well placed to become a key text in many student social workers' redaing lists' - Journal of Interprofessional Care
`[An] excellent book, abounding with conceptual insights, bursting with research and evidence-based reasoning, and pretty comprehensive...
Social Services in the Workplace
Repositioning Occupational Social Work in the New Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Discover the challenges and pitfalls awaiting occupational social workers in the coming years!
Social Services in the Workplace: Repositioning Occupational Social Work in the New Millennium will help you meet the challenges that the rapidly changing world of work today presents. These challenges...
Social Work with Groups
Social Justice Through Personal, Community, and Societal Change
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Help change the world by bringing ideas of social justice into your group work practice!
Social workers who use hip-hop music to reach out to troubled adolescents. Practitioners who compare First Nations talking circles with social work practice with groups. A retired professor who transforms...
by Mark Doel
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Social Work: The Basics is an insightful introduction to the often misrepresented world of social work. This accessible book presents a broad view of contemporary social work, exploring its roots and its possible future. It dispels myths surrounding social work, addresses media debates, and offers...
Social Work Fields of Practice
Historical Trends, Professional Issues, and Future Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2012
A contemporary look at social work practice and the many career possibilities—with detailed coverage of important new and emerging trends
As the practice of social work continues to diversify, students need a clear picture of the current state of the field and an up-to-date source of information...
by Dr. Jessica A. Ritter, BSW, MSSW
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
PRAISE FOR THE FIRST EDITION:
"This is a vital and necessary guide to the social work profession. This book clarifies the social work mission, goals, and objectives, and strengthens and promotes them as well."
óCarmen Ortiz Hendricks, MSW, DSW, ACSW, LCSW
Professor...
Reclaiming Social Work
Challenging Neo-liberalism and Promoting Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2007
Reclaiming Social Work is a thought-provoking and innovative book which examines how social work's commitment to social justice has been deepened and enriched by its contact with wider social movements. It explores the tensions between social work values and a market-driven agenda, and locates new...
Becoming a Social Worker
Global Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
This is a book about social workers and social work. It tells the story of the journey into and through social work of people from around the world living and working in social work today. We hear what has brought them into social work and what has kept them in it since. Their lively accounts demonstrate...
Social Work
Introducing Professional Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2006
'Comprehensive and user-friendly. The book is helpfully constructed around a number of key themes, starting with a good attempt to define social work from historical and international perspectives and moving on to address key issues concerning the practice, knowledge, values and skills required from...
Social Work Practices
Contemporary Perspectives on Change
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 1999
`Karen Healy has written a very interesting and worthwhile book that explores the relevance and significance of postmodern theory to social work. It provides a well-argued account of recent developments in social work theory… However, it is not simply an account of theory, as considerable effort...
Spirituality in Social Work
New Directions
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
As Spirituality in Social Work: New Directions shows you, there has been an increase of interest among social workers concerning spiritual matters. In response to this collective interest, Edward Canda and several other members of the Society for Spirituality and Social Work have compiled a thorough...
Clinical Work and Social Action
An Integrative Approach
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Clinical Work and Social Action: An Integrative Approach develops a paradigm for social work and human services practice that integrates clinical work and social action.
Social workers, clinicians, activists, and educators will explore ways to create harmony in the divisions that currently...
Social Work in Health Care
A Handbook for Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Here is an outstanding reference book of major readings in the field of social work in health care. Practitioners, educators, researchers, and students can use this landmark two-part volume to review dominant themes and critical issues in today’s practice environment and to understand the evolution...