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Political Social Work

Author : Shannon R. Lane
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319685880
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book Political Social Work written by Shannon R. Lane and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-12-16 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This social work book is the first of its kind, describing practical steps that social workers can take to shape and influence both policy and politics. It prepares social workers and social work students to impact political action and subsequent policy, with a detailed real-world framework for turning ideas into concrete goals and strategies for effecting change. Tracing the roots of social work in response to systemic social inequality, it clearly relates the tenets of social work to the challenges and opportunities of modern social change. The book identifies the core domains of political social work, including engaging individuals and communities in voting, influencing policy agendas, and seeking and holding elected office. Chapters elaborate on the necessary skills for political social work, featuring discussion, examples, and critical thinking exercises in such vital areas as: Power, empowerment, and conflict: engaging effectively with power in political settings. Getting on the agenda: assessing the political context and developing political strategy. Planning the political intervention: advocacy and electoral campaigns. Empowering voters Persuasive political communication. Budgeting and allocating resources. Evaluating political social work efforts. Making ethical decisions in political social work. Political Social Work is a potent reference for social work professionals, practitioners, and students seeking core political knowledge and skills to practically advance their work. For specialists and generalists alike, it solidifies political action as vital for the evolution of the field.

Social Work Matters

Author : Elizabeth F. Hoffler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780871014412
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (144 download)

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Download or read book Social Work Matters written by Elizabeth F. Hoffler and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Social Work and Power

Author : Roger Smith
Publisher : Red Globe Press
ISBN 13 : 1403991243
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Social Work and Power written by Roger Smith and published by Red Globe Press. This book was released on 2008-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Power is an unavoidable issue in social work. This important text explores these complex issues, both at a conceptual and applied level, in order to give students a clear understanding of the theoretical frameworks relevant to practice and to help them begin to think through the challenges they are likely to face and how they will deal with these.

The Black Power Movement and American Social Work

Author : Joyce M. Bell
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231538014
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book The Black Power Movement and American Social Work written by Joyce M. Bell and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Black Power movement has often been portrayed in history and popular culture as the quintessential "bad boy" of modern black movement-making in America. Yet this impression misses the full extent of Black Power's contributions to U.S. society, especially in regard to black professionals in social work. Relying on extensive archival research and oral history interviews, Joyce M. Bell follows two groups of black social workers in the 1960s and 1970s as they mobilized Black Power ideas, strategies, and tactics to change their national professional associations. Comparing black dissenters within the National Federation of Settlements (NFS), who fought for concessions from within their organization, and those within the National Conference on Social Welfare (NCSW), who ultimately adopted a separatist strategy, she shows how the Black Power influence was central to the creation and rise of black professional associations. She also provides a nuanced approach to studying race-based movements and offers a framework for understanding the role of social movements in shaping the non-state organizations of civil society.

Understanding Power

Author : Elaine Pinderhughes
Publisher : N A S W Press
ISBN 13 : 9780871015051
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Power written by Elaine Pinderhughes and published by N A S W Press. This book was released on 2016-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Social Control and the Use of Power in Social Work with Children and Families

Author : Toyin Okitikpi
Publisher : Russell House Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781905541713
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (417 download)

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Download or read book Social Control and the Use of Power in Social Work with Children and Families written by Toyin Okitikpi and published by Russell House Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The role of a social worker has always been about balancing the necessity for care and control, yet practitioners are generally more comfortable with the care element of their profession rather than the control element. In this book, ten contributors explore the complex nature of power and its important function, both in social work in general and the childcare field in particular. The book: examines the extent of social work powers in working with children and families * explores the changing role of social workers, and childcare social work in particular * discusses the crisis of confidence about the role, duties, and responsibilities of working within the children and families sector * examines the increasing policy shift towards social control * looks at the tensions and contradictions inherent in the helping process * considers the role of social workers in the school environment, where exercising power and control is readily accepted by parents, but how that is done is crucial * discusses whether social workers are not only aware of their powers, but also know how they utilize their powers when working with 'at risk' cases * asks how the 'rule of optimism' can be redefined and still safeguard vulnerable children and young people * examines the ethics of exercising power in practice.

The Social Work Pocket Guide To

Author : Rob Harrison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781903575758
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book The Social Work Pocket Guide To written by Rob Harrison and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Narrative in Social Work Practice

Author : Ann Burack-Weiss
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231544723
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Narrative in Social Work Practice written by Ann Burack-Weiss and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narrative in Social Work Practice features first-person accounts by social workers who have successfully integrated narrative theory and approaches into their practice. Contributors describe innovative and effective interventions with a wide range of individuals, families, and groups facing a variety of life challenges. One author describes a family in crisis when a promising teenage girl suddenly takes to her bed for several years; another brings narrative practice to a Bronx trauma center; and another finds that poetry writing can enrich the lives of people living with dementia. In some chapters, the authors turn narrative techniques inward and use them as vehicles of self-discovery. Settings range from hospitals and clinics to a graduate school and a case management agency. Throughout, Narrative in Social Work Practice showcases the flexibility and appeal of narrative methods and demonstrates how they can be empowering and fulfilling for clients and social workers alike. The differential use of narrative techniques fulfills the mission and core competencies of the social work profession in creative and surprising ways. Stories of clients and workers are, indeed, powerful.

Visual Communication for Social Work Practice

Author : Sonia M. Tascón
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351241958
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book Visual Communication for Social Work Practice written by Sonia M. Tascón and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How are we to understand how the dominance of visual images and representations in late modernity affects Social Work practice, research and education? Social workers are increasingly using still and moving images to illustrate their work, to create new knowledge, and to further specific groups’ interests. As a profession in which communication is central, visual practices are becoming ever more significant as they seek to carry out their work with, and for, the marginalised and disenfranchised. It is time for the profession to gain more critical, analytical, and practical knowledge of visual culture and communication, in order to use and create images in accordance with its central principle of social justice. That requires an understanding of them beyond representation. As important as this is, it is also where the profession’s scholarly work in this area has remained and halted, and thus understanding of the work of images in our practices is limited. In order to more fully understand images and their effects – both ideologically and experientially – social workers need to bring to bear other areas of study such as reception studies, visual phenomenology, and the gaze. These other analytical frames enable a consideration not only of images per se, but also of their effect on the viewer, the human spectators, and the subjects at the heart of Social Work. By bringing understandings and experiences in Film, Media, and Communications, Visual Communication for Social Work Practice provides the reader with a wide range of critically analytical frames for practitioners, activists, educators, and researchers as they use and create images. This invites a deeper knowledge and familiarity with the power dimensions of the image, thus aligning with the social justice dimension of Social Work. Examples are provided from cinema, popular media, but more importantly from Social Work practitioners themselves to demonstrate what has already been made possible as they create and use images to further the interpersonal, communal, and justice dimensions of their work. This book will be of interest to scholars, students, and social workers, particularly those with an interest in critical and creative methodologies.

Sustaining Social Work

Author : Robbie Duschinsky
Publisher : Red Globe Press
ISBN 13 : 113740390X
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Sustaining Social Work written by Robbie Duschinsky and published by Red Globe Press. This book was released on 2016-04-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social work is a profession under strain, and practitioners report finding the role increasingly challenging. What can sustain social work in these times? How can social workers sustain themselves in the role? How can they derive confidence and meaning from what they do? In addressing these questions, Sustaining Social Work is a source of understanding and support for professionals struggling with the tensions of practice. Accessible and engaging , it explores the fallout that results from social workers experiencing these tensions, including feelings of powerlessness, responsibility, optimism and cynicism. Drawing on ideas from social theory and the social sciences, it puts forward a model of sustainable social work that will help practitioners not just cope but flourish – even in the context of ongoing crises. An enlightening, uplifting read in a difficult and uncertain time for the profession, Sustaining Social Work addresses the challenge of finding sustenance and consolation within day-to-day practice, enriching it beyond the short-term.

Social Justice Theory and Practice for Social Work

Author : Lynelle Watts
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811336210
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (113 download)

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Download or read book Social Justice Theory and Practice for Social Work written by Lynelle Watts and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a much-needed critical overview of the concept of social justice and its application in professional social work practice. Social justice has a rich conceptual genealogy in critical theory and political philosophy. For students, teachers and social workers concerned with empowerment, social change and human rights, this book provides a guide to the key ideas and thinkers, crucial historical developments and contemporary debates about social justice. It synthesises interdisciplinary knowledge and offers a new framework for practice, including a clear and practical exposition of four domains of skills and knowledge important for social justice informed social work. The book also contributes to social work pedagogy by offering a comprehensive set of learning outcomes that can be used to design curriculum, teaching and learning, and further research into social justice praxis. This book provides a range of philosophical and critical perspectives to support and inform social work professional knowledge and skills. In its tight knitting together of theory and practice this book links philosophical and moral principles with an understanding of how to engage with social justice in a way that is relevant to social work.

The Strengths Perspective in Social Work Practice

Author : Dennis Saleebey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780205011544
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (115 download)

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Download or read book The Strengths Perspective in Social Work Practice written by Dennis Saleebey and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A conceptual and practical presentation of the strengths perspective in social work. Part of the Advancing Core Competencies Series, a unique series that helps students taking advanced social work courses apply CSWE's core competencies and practice behaviours examples to specialised fields of practice. The Strengths Perspective in Social Work Practice, 6th edition, presents both conceptual and practical elements of the strengths perspective - from learning about and practicing the strengths perspective to using the strengths perspective with older adults, the chronically ill, and substance abusers. Many of the chapters address recent events -from the tragic shooting in Tucson to the uprisings in the Middle East. Each chapter begins with a section from an expert in the field. A better teaching and learning experience This program will provide a better teaching and learning experience--for you and your students. Here's how: Improve Critical Thinking - Each chapter contains four critical thinking questions and two short essay questions that require the reader to apply key concepts. Engage Students - Extensive case examples keep students interested and help them see a connection between theory and practice. Explore Current Issues - Three new chapters have been added to reflect the most current knowledge in the field. Apply CSWE Core Competencies - The text integrates the 2008 CSWE EPAS, with critical thinking questions and practice tests to assess student understanding and development of competencies and practice behaviours.

Hope Matters

Author : Elizabeth J. Clark
Publisher : NASW Press
ISBN 13 : 9780871014542
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (145 download)

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Download or read book Hope Matters written by Elizabeth J. Clark and published by NASW Press. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Social Theory, Power and Practice

Author : J. Tew
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1403919909
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Social Theory, Power and Practice written by J. Tew and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-08-12 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social Theory, Power and Practice explores key strands of contemporary social theory in developing an innovative framework for understanding the operation of power. This draws on structural theories of inequality and oppression and poststructural deconstructions of discourse, identity and emotion. These are used to examine the dynamics of social and personal change, and to inform the development of empowering practice within the human services with those who may experience distress, abuse or exclusion.

Social Theory for Social Work

Author : Christopher Thorpe
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135985588
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Social Theory for Social Work written by Christopher Thorpe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-28 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trying to understand how the world looks through the eyes of individuals and groups and how it shapes the ways they think and act is something social workers do all the time. It is what social theorists do too. This book identifies and explains in a highly accessible manner the absolute value of social theory for social work. Drawing on the theoretical ideas and perspectives of a wide range of classical and modern social theorists, the book demonstrates the insights their work can bring to bear on a wide range of social work practice scenarios, issues and debates. Departing with the work of the classical theorists, the book covers a diverse range of theoretical traditions including phenomenology, symbolic interactionism, Norbert Elias, Michel Foucault, Pierre Bourdieu, feminism and globalization theory. Putting to work ideas from these different perspectives, a range of social work scenarios, issues and debates are opened up and explored. The final chapter brings together the various theoretical strands, and critically considers the contribution they can make towards realizing core social work values in a rapidly globalizing world. Demonstrating exactly how and in what ways social theory can make important and enduring contributions to social work, Social Theory for Social Work is essentialial reading for social work students, practitioners and professionals alike.

Relational Social Work

Author : Fabio Folgheraiter
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781843101918
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Relational Social Work written by Fabio Folgheraiter and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this innovative book Fabio Folgheraiter presents a systematic introduction to networking and reflexive practice in social work. The text explores how the interested parties in social care can acquire a shared power in care planning and decision making and that when this networking occurs, the efficacy of caring initiatives increases.

Developing Resilience for Social Work Practice

Author : Louise Grant
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 113730250X
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Developing Resilience for Social Work Practice written by Louise Grant and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-07-06 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term 'resilience' refers to a person's capacity to handle difficulties, demands and pressure without experiencing negative effects. Traditionally, social work has focused on the nature and impact of resilience in children and adults who have experienced traumatic events, but it is increasingly recognised that social workers need to develop personal resilience to manage the emotional demands of the job effectively and sustainably. Developing Resilience for Social Work Practice provides social workers with a tool-box of strategies to help them enhance their resilience and protect their wellbeing. Written by experienced practitioners in the field, the book draws on key research to present a series of evidence-based interventions. These strategies are designed to help social work students and practitioners develop important qualities that underpin resilience, such as self-awareness, time management, relaxation skills and empathy as well enable them to gain support from their personal and professional networks. Grounded in both theory and practice, each chapter explores how the various resilience techniques can be applied to help social workers manage the complexities and challenges they face in everyday practice. The use of relevant and engaging case studies throughout is particularly useful in bringing the book to life for the reader.