Originally published in 1975 and based on a study of the memories and perceptions of 27 families known to a Family Service Unit, and of their most recent social workers, this book was an important contribution to our knowledge of consumer opinions o...More info...
Trusting Recovery and Desistance synthesises and presents research on the social influences of recovery and desistance. The social processes which underpin and shape our lives have the power to significantly transform the tra...More info...
Social work is fundamentally a relationship-based profession. This book offers a critical multidisciplinary analysis of case studies of social work interventions from a psychosocial and relationship-based perspective. Provi...More info...
This is the third edition of our best-selling Writing Analytical Assessments in Social Work with the most up-to-date guidance so social workers can write reports that achieve and illuminate. You write something so that it ca...More info...
Choices remains a trusted and widely used textbook for professional training programs such as social work, criminology, nursing, child and youth care, addictions, and psychology. It is also widely utilized as a resource by professionals and voluntee...More info...
This book explores how Lean – a global management doctrine – operates and is adopted in the real, corporeal, collective, and affective environments of health and social care services.During Lean implementation processes, knowledges, affects...More info...
Keurig Green Mountain founder Bob Stiller presents the leadership approach that made his company one of the most fabled start-ups of all time and that will help you boost engagement, innovation, and your bottom line. Today, every compa...More info...
As a social worker, theory can offer meaningful ways to better understand and support the people you work with. However, sometimes it can be challenging to connect the theories learned about in class and training, with the complex real-life situat...More info...
This book explores a key phenomenon that has been accelerated by the COVID-19 crisis, namely, the crossroads at which social welfare professionals find themselves. This book explores a key phenomenon that has been accelerated by the...More info...
This book is an essential resource meticulously designed for social work field placements. It offers students a structured pathway through the intricacies of real-world social work, equipping them with invaluable guidance, knowledge, and practical...More info...
This concise, accessible, and engaging handbook offers a companion for social work students to acquire professional and competency-based writing skills-- This concise, accessible, and engaging handbook offers a companion for social work...More info...
This concise, accessible, and engaging handbook offers a companion for social work students to acquire professional and competency-based writing skills. Written by experienced educators, the book builds writing proficiency by introducing a social...More info...
First published in 1979, Helping in Social Work elaborates on the personal processes of influence in social work between clients and social workers. First published in 1979, Helping in Social Work elaborates on the pe...More info...
First published in 1969, Angry Adolescents intends to fill an academic gap in adolescent literature by providing case studies of individual adolescents from difficult home backgrounds and how they behaved in a certain situation in the years...More info...
Much previous research on elderly people had focused on their problems, and had created an impression of a group of isolated individuals suffering from almost insurmountable social difficulties. Originally published in 1984, this study of the ever...More info...
Originally published in 1966, this book gives examples of the most advanced thought about casework by well-known writers in England and the United States at the time. These articles by well-known authorities illustrate the increased range of insig...More info...
First published in 1985, this book brings together 3 British studies that in some respects pioneered, the introduction of task-centred casework into the UK. They describe and evaluate task-centred casework with social services department clients,...More info...
Originally published in 1964, this was an introduction to social casework, that is social work with individuals and families. It was written for students at the beginning of their training and, while intended for the social worker, it would also p...More info...
This book explores how lean operates and is adopted in real, corporeal, collective and affective environments of health and social care services. During Lean implementation processes, knowledges, affects, skills and materialities come together in ma...More info...
This is the third edition of our best-selling Writing Analytical Assessments in Social Work with the most up-to-date guidance so social workers can write reports that achieve and illuminate. You write something in order th...More info...
Originally published in 1975 and based on a study of the memories and perceptions of twenty-seven families known to a Family Service Unit, and of their most recent social workers, this book was an important contribution to our knowledge of consume...More info...
Corey S. Shdaimah, Chrysanthi S. Leon, Shelly A. Wiechelt
(Pub. Date: 21-Jul-2023, Hardback, Publisher: Temple University Press,U.S., ISBN-13: 9781439922002)
Laws subject people who perform sex work to arrest and prosecution. The Compassionate Court? assesses two prostitution diversion programs (PDPs) that offer to “rehabilitate” people arrested for street-based sex work as an alternative to incar...More info...
This book draws on interviews and observations from two court-affiliated prostitution diversion programs and a nonprofit agency following participants through court, prison, probation, programming, and returns to their lives. They compare the forces...More info...
First published in 1982, Risk and Social Work provides a useful framework for analysing risk in the social welfare context. First published in 1982, Risk and Social Work provides a useful framework for analysing risk i...More info...
An intimate account of the personal and socioeconomic circumstances that affect state care leavers, this book voices the distinct yet interconnected experience of these young people to reinforce the increasingly prevalent Irish model. The...More info...
This book demonstrates how active and meaningful collaboration between researchers and local stakeholders and indigenous communities can lead to the co-production of knowledge and the empowerment of communities. This book demonstrat...More info...
This book is a case study of policy translation at an elite Japanese university. Through an analysis of the implementation of government-funded reform policies, Black investigates the role of the university in society, the youth-to-work transition,...More info...
This revised second edition of 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...More info...
This revised second edition of 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 futur...More info...
Participatory Case Study Work shows academic co-researchers how to adapt and implement their methods so that data collection and analysis is authentically participatory. At the heart of this text is advocating a participatory approach to...More info...
First published in 1969, Angry Adolescents intends to fill an academic gap in adolescent literature by providing case studies of individual adolescents from difficult home backgrounds and how they behaved in a certain situation in the years...More info...
First published in 1979, Helping in Social Work elaborates on the personal processes of influence in social work between clients and social workers. Shifting focus from the organizational structure of social work to face-to-face interaction...More info...
Administrative asylum procedures are permeated by tensions between rationalities of legality, efficiency, and deterrence in asylum casework and their various effects on cases. Based on ethnographic research in the Swiss asylum administration, this bo...More info...
The modern home visitors introductory textbook for effective, culturally sensitive home visits with young children and families-- For more than a decade, The Art and Practice of Home Visiting has been a go&;to guide for...More info...
Much previous research on elderly people had focused on their problems, and had created an impression of a group of isolated individuals suffering from almost insurmountable social difficulties. Originally published in 1984, this study of the ever...More info...
Originally published in 1964, this was an introduction to social casework, that is social work with individuals and families. It was written for students at the beginning of their training and, while intended for the social worker, it would also p...More info...
In the 1980s, although most social workers organised their time and described their work in terms of cases, research studies had cast serious doubts on the efficacy of working in this way. As a result, there had been growing anxiety about what soc...More info...
Originally published in 1966, this book gives examples of the most advanced thought about casework by well-known writers in England and the United States at the time. The ground covered includes: the use of some current sociological theory in case...More info...
Mental Health Social Work Practice in Canada is a concise yet comprehensive introduction to the nature of mental health issues and the legal and policy framework within which treatment is provided. Written by leading experts in the field, th...More info...
(Pub. Date: 12-Oct-2021, Hardback, Publisher: Random House USA Inc, ISBN-13: 9781984801159)
Shannon, Wally, and John built their lives around their place of work. Shannon, a white single mother, became the first woman to run the factorys dangerous furnaces at the Rexnord manufacturing plant in Indianapolis and was proud of producing one o...More info...
This book demonstrates how active and meaningful collaboration between researchers and local stakeholders and indigenous communities can lead to the co-production of knowledge and the empowerment of communities. Focusing on the Asia-Pacific region,...More info...
The book is divided into four parts with a total of 23 chapters. The first two chapters constitute Part I of this book, which focuses on explicating our generalist-eclectic approach to direct social work practice. In Part II, high-level or meta-theo...More info...
Community Services Intervention provides a comprehensive introduction to the theory, models and principles of practice for direct social casework.It introduces the history and context of professional practice, provides a step-by-step g...More info...
Originally published in 1972 Recording in Social Work looks at how recording has always been claimed as one of the necessary activities of social workers, whatever form of social work they undertake. The book deals systematically with recor...More info...
(Pub. Date: 02-Feb-2021, Hardback, Publisher: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231187480)
Originally published in 1980, The Life Model of Social Work Practice was the first textbook to introduce the ecological perspective into social work practice. This fourth edition brings the text up to date by expanding and deepening this persp...More info...
Participatory Case Study Work shows academic co-researchers how to adapt and implement their methods so that data collection and analysis is authentically participatory. At the heart of this text is advocating a participatory approach to...More info...
