Social Policy for Social Work

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To celebrate the 35th anniversary of the seminal text Radical Social Work (1975), this volume has been compiled to explore the radical tradition wi...

Reducere. Clear, comprehensive, and accessible, this textbook presents an overview of the contemporary American mental health system and its impact on client...

This new text illuminates the essential information about health and social work critical to understanding today's complex health care systems and ...

Krumer-Nevo provides a new framework for people working with and for people in poverty: The Poverty-Aware Paradigm. This book details its extensive...

As many social inequalities widen, this is a crucial survey of local authorities' evolving role in health, social care and wellbeing. Health and so...

This book imaginatively explores ways in which practitioners and social work educators might develop more critical and radical ways of theorising a...

An introduction to the diverse settings of social work, detailing the relevant policy context, methods and approaches.Publisher: Open University Pr...

In this book, researcher Matthew Gibson reviews the role of shame and pride in social work, providing invaluable new insights from the first study ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Daniel WeismanAuthor: Joseph ZornadoThis invaluable guide helps social workers develop the writing skills necessary for a s...

Packed full of case studies, activities and tools for real-life practice, this book covers all the main topics in the first year of both the underg...

DescriptionHospital Social Work introduces the reader to the world of medicine and social work as seen through the eyes of actual social workers. A...

DescriptionCompassion traces the ways in which various societies across the globe have responded to the vulnerable among them from early human hist...

Considered the classic source in its field, DIRECT SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE: THEORY AND SKILLS prepares you for effective real-world practice. Packed w...

This attractive and accessible textbook analyses and examines the policies, services and practice skills needed for collaborative, effective and eq...

Reducere. Well before the creation of the United States, the Cherokee people administered their own social policy--a form of what today might be called socia...

This book is a concise, accessible guide to help social workers understand how politics and policy making really work-and what they can do to help ...

Using real-life examples, this book enables practitioners and students to consider the ethics and assess the impact of social media on their profes...

First published in 1976, Supervision in Social Work has become an essential text for social work educators and students, detailing the state of the...

Reducere. This clear and accessible guide√>=written by social workers for social workers√>=describes the most current developments in neuroscience and their ...

Reducere. Health Care Social Work aims to directly empower health care social workers around the world by providing valuable new information about the breadt...

Reducere. This unique edited collection addresses issues impacting the well-being of LGBTQ individuals with diverse identities to help students, practitioner...

They consider the role of ethical commitment in the philosophical analysis of contemporary political issues, and engage with matters of public poli...

This work offers a new interpretation of the United Progressive Alliance's (2004-14) radical agenda for the religious minorities. It uses an instit...

Reducere. The fourth edition of Community Organizing and Community Building for Health and Social Equity provides both classic and recent contributions to th...

Transitions and the Lifecourse investigates and challenges dominant interpretations of transitions in late life. Amanda Grenier takes a cross-natio...

This book challenges the current child protection culture and calls for family-minded humane practice where children are understood as relational b...

Written for the HNC in Social Care, this work covers the six mandatory units and three SVQ units. It focuses on supporting students with completing...

Martin Davies brings together contributors from a range of universities and practice backgrounds to provide incisive perspectives on this complex f...

Reducere. Diversity, Oppression, and Change, Third Edition provides a culturally grounded approach to practice, policy, and research in social work and allie...

DescriptionIn Ensuring Poverty, Felicia Kornbluh and Gwendolyn Mink assess the gendered history of welfare reform. They foreground arguments advanc...

Description"Powerful as well as highly engaging--a brilliant book."--Amartya SenA Times Higher Education Book of the WeekIt may sound crazy to pay ...

Population Health: Management, Policy and Innovation, Second Edition builds upon the work in the First Edition. The institutions of healthcare and ...

Provides a comprehensive theoretical and practical guide to non-directive play therapy, which is an effective method of helping troubled children a...

Reducere. Essentials of Social Work Management and Leadership: A Competency-Based Approach helps students not only build critical knowledge but also cultivat...

This publication collects contributions to understanding and addressing migration flows from Africa to Europe and supporting social coexistence in ...

This book chronicles the evolution of women's participation in the labour force in Ireland over the last five decades. It will be a valuable resour...

A deftly crafted insider account of how congressional committees really work, updated for 2021Publisher: The University of Michigan PressAuthor(s):...

Political Communication and Social Theory presents an advanced and challenging text for students and scholars of political communication and mass m...

Reducere. Elinor C. Ostrom won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2009, with recognition for her path-breaking work on institutions organized to address common-...

This exciting and practical book is filled to the brim with useful ideas for busy practitioners. Building on the work of Paulo Freire, theories are...

Reducere. Over the past several decades, the Social Security Administration has tested many new policies and programs. These demonstrations have covered most...

Drawing together a team of expert contributors from across the sector to offer contemporary descriptions and critical reflection of practice in hig...

In What We Made, Tom Finkelpearl examines the activist, participatory, coauthored aesthetic experiences being created in contemporary art. He sugge...

Reducere. The present enquiry is an Indo-centric approach to study the extension of Copenhagen School related to Securitisation of the Cyber domain and Cyber...

This is the first book about the intermediary scheme, criminal justice's untold 'good news story'. It provides a comprehensive explanation of how i...

This Handbook shows that Business History is a wide-ranging and dynamic area of study, producing compelling empirical data, which has sometimes con...

DescriptionDisability Studies in Education (DSE) provides a useful and compelling framework for re-envisioning the possibility of education for all...

DescriptionAmerica's criminal justice policy reflects irrational fears stoked by politicians seeking to win election. A preeminent legal scholar ar...

Reducere. Renowned social justice advocate john a. powell persuasively argues that we have not achieved a post-racial society and that there is much work to ...

DescriptionA moving, cross-national account of working mothers' daily lives--and the revolution in public policy and culture needed to improve them...

In order to be well-governed, a democracy needs voters who are fluent in the language of economics and who can do some quantitative analysis of soc...

Reducere. From one of the leading policy experts of our time, an urgent rethinking of how we can better support each other to thrive Whether we realize it or...

This book unravels the lives, needs and experiences of Nigerian and Ghanaian women working in prostitution in Brussels. It will be of particular in...

Reducere. How social security disability law is out of touch with the contemporary American labor market Passing down nearly a million decisions each year, m...

Advising in austerity provides a lively and thought-provoking account of the conditions, consequences and challenges of advice work in the UK. It e...

DescriptionWhat is it like to live a life that is impossible? For many sex workers, life is lived at the crossroads of exclusion and assimilation, ...

Reducere. Since it first appeared in 1978, this seminal work by one of the foremost American legal minds of our age has dramatically changed the way the cour...

Reducere. DescriptionIn Working the Planning Table, Ronald M. Cervero and Arthur L. Wilson offer a theory that accounts for planners' lived experience and pr...

Reducere. Democracy Unchained draws upon lessons from Professor Richard Dien Winfield's 2018 campaign for US Congress in Georgia to show how the United State...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: David HarveyThroughout his distinguished and influential career, David Harvey has defined and redefined the relationship be...

Aiming to help overcome difficulties arising from the lack of an agreed vocabulary, this reference work is useful for researchers, students and pol...

Reducere. The papers on psychoanalytic technique by Ella Sharpe (1875 -1947) are reprinted. There are five original clinical essays by Eric Rayner, Victor Se...

Reducere. The social arrangements with which we are familiar work fairly well for most of us most of the time. We work, we earn, we pay taxes. We engage prof...

This perceptive collection explores ableism in academia from the viewpoint of academics' personal and professional experiences and scholarship. Thr...

City planning is a practice and a profession. It is also a set of goals and--sometimes utopian--aspirations. Formal thought about the shaping of ci...

Reducere. About the AuthorVic Brown enjoyed a 30-year career in the chemical industry with FMC Corporation, where he held a number of senior positions and wo...

Written by a leading expert, this book examines equality issues in the City of London, arguing that social hiring practices in the City favour affl...

Reducere. A plea for the social efficacy of the neighborhood and its ecologyThe pressure is on: people move to cities in ever-growing numbers. So we build ne...

Reducere. DescriptionSocial factors, signals, and biases shape the health of our nation. Racism and poverty manifest in unequal social, environmental, and ec...