Social Work Policy Practice: Changing Our Community, Nation, and the World

Author and activist Asheem Singh explores how a movement of tiny ventures evolved into a global humanitarian and financial juggernaut, revealing ne...

Reducere. Learn how streets are fixed, sidewalks get added, and new schools are built with this nonfiction book. Perfect for young readers, the book includes...

Reducere. Kofi Dᴐnkᴐ was a blacksmith and farmer, as well as an important healer, intellectual, spiritual leader, settler of disputes, and custodian of share...

Social Entrepreneurship in the Age of Atrocities provides crucial insight into social entrepreneurship from visionaries in the field as well as oth...

Reducere. IF YOU WANT TO CHANGE ANYTHING, YOUVE GOT TO BE A LEADER!Are you giving your best effort, but still struggling to bring positive change your home, ...

This new edition has been updated to reflect recent shifts in community and social care whilst still providing the authoritative account of its his...

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

Needs assessments identify the needs for services, answering questions about who needs these services and in what priority. Asset assessments focus...

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

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. Specifically dedicated to the skills that social workers need to advance community practice, this creative book is long overdue. Grounded in the wi...

Reducere. Global refugee numbers are at their highest levels since the end of World War II, but the system in place to deal with them, based upon a humanitar...

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

Publisher: Sourcebooks, IncAuthor(s): Miry WhitehillNumber of pages: 32Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 236 x 286 x 12Cover type: HardbackIllustra...

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. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

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

This is a key text in community work, discussing international thinkers and arguing for more critical analysis of community work.

There is a growing recognition of the importance of networking for the vitality and cohesion of community life. Now in its third edition, and subst...

In The Ex Men, Giles Edwards sets out to answer that question, uncovering the many ways in which former Presidents and Prime Ministers continue to ...

Reducere. In this clear and systematic book covering the both general practice concepts and theoretical insights, best-selling author Malcolm Payne shows you...

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

Reducere. How globalization is undermining sustainable social environments for children This book uses the ecological model of child development together wit...

Experts from around the world review the complex and rapidly changing politics and policies of austerity in this comprehensive collection of essays...

How do you keep your employees engaged, creative, innovative, and productive? Simple: Work human From the pioneers of the management strategy that'...

Bringing together international case studies, this book offers theoretical and empirical insights into the interaction between social work and soci...

Reducere. It is one of the most pressing and controversial questions of our time -- vehemently debated, steeped in ideology, profoundly divisive. Who should ...

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DescriptionMark Nepo--the #1 New York Times bestselling author and popular spiritual teacher--"has given us not only a much-needed message of hope ...

Reducere. Community Engagement in a Changing Social Landscape reaches deep into the authors' extensive experience as both observers and practitioners of comm...

This book, written by the mother of three children on the autism spectrum, targets the major issues families face in creating a comfortable environ...

The idea of community involvement and empowerment has become central to politics in recent years. Governments, keen to reduce public spending and i...

Reducere. For social workers, activists, bureaucrats, and engaged citizens in third-sector organizations (NGOs, charities, not-for-profits, co-operatives), t...

Is democracy a force for good or something much more dangerous?

Is democracy a force for good or something much more dangerous?

This compelling book examines parental leave policies in Nordic countries, looking at how these laws encourage men towards life courses with greate...

Reducere. DescriptionA new history of the world's most embattled ideaToday, democracy is the world's only broadly accepted political system, and yet it has b...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

A guide to how participatory visual methods and arts-based methods can influence social change and make a significant contribution to policy dialog...

Reducere. In the midst of this once-in-a-century public health crisis, the United States was almost toppled from within by one of the two national political ...

Reducere. Provides the knowledge and skills social workers need when navigating the complex health care environment, while having to continuously adapt to ch...

Reducere. A leading workplace expert provides an inspirational, practical, and forward-looking career playbook for recent grads, career changers, and transit...

Collates knowledge and examines the role and nature of community groups and activities operating outside of the formal voluntary sector in the UK t...

Reducere. This around-the-world tour introduces readers to children who have taken on the role of social activist, fighting for human rights and social justi...

What is the social cost of privatising public services? And what effect has the failure of previous privatisations had? This book tells how social ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Dana Berkowitz One of NPR's Best Books of 2017 The first in-depth social investigation into the development and rising popu...

Takes us around the world to tell the compelling story of how museums today are making sense of immigration and globalization. This book provides a...

50 years on from the Race Relations Act of 1968, this 'state of the nation' book provides an overview and commentary on how things currently stand ...

Drawing on family and communal records, diaries, memoirs, literary works, and other sources, the author reconstructs the fascinating story of how P...