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Asian Social Work Professional Work in National Contexts

Asian Social Work Professional Work in National Contexts

The countries of East and Southeast Asia taken as a whole display a laboratory of social and political conditions with individual countries presenting a variety of political cultural and social characteristics. Some with one-party state systems others with stable liberal democracies and yet others with more fragile democratic systems. As such the region presents a unique opportunity to examine the relationship between diverse national environments and social work education regimes. In this book social work educators and theorists from around East and Southeast Asia provide accounts of the social work programs within the higher education systems of their respective countries and compare them to those of their neighbours. This is the first book to offer a structured account of how social work and social work education have emerged and finds their present place in the historical economic political urban/rural and higher education contexts of Southeast Asia and East Asia. Experts from the region assess the extent to which these countries’ systems possess a collective coherence while examining the diversity among them. | Asian Social Work Professional Work in National Contexts

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Police Social Work Social Work Practice in Law Enforcement Agencies

Police Social Work Social Work Practice in Law Enforcement Agencies

Grounded in contemporary social work practice approaches such as trauma-informed practice cultural competency and systems theory this book provides a model for developing implementing and evaluating police social work and social service collaboration within the context of contemporary policing strategies. The practice of professional social work in law enforcement agencies is increasingly becoming an important area of practice. Police social work as it is known benefits community residents and assists law enforcement agencies with accomplishing community policing and other problem-solving initiatives. Throughout 13 chapters this book covers: The practice of professional social work within law enforcement agencies The types of social problems addressed and characteristics of police social work collaborations Ethical and other practice issues that arise when collaborating with law enforcement agencies and required practice skills to address these issues An examination of collaborations formed between law enforcement agencies and social services agencies in which the service providers are not professional social workers A model for developing police social work collaborations and investigating collaboration effectiveness Expanded roles for police social work practice such as consultation officer selection training recruits and police officers and assisting their families Police Social Work provides a wealth of case studies and other reference material to prepare students for police social work practice as well as serving as a resource for police officers recruits and students majoring in policing. | Police Social Work Social Work Practice in Law Enforcement Agencies

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Perspectives in Social Work

Perspectives in Social Work

Perspectives in Social Work was originally published in 1977 and provides a text for social workers in training to use. The book argues for a more philosophical approach to both understanding and doing social work and seeks to establish simple and basic elements in social work asking questions such as: what should a social worker be able to do? What should a social worker know and believe? Does social work actually work? In answering these questions the book offers a wide ranging and critical review of literature of the time and looks at social work as a method of altruism. This book is still topical today and acts as a useful document on the subject of social work both through the discussions within and through the lens of modern change. It will be of particular interest to those studying the history and changes in social work.

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Education for Social Work Readings in Social Work Volume 4

Education for Social Work Readings in Social Work Volume 4

Some outstanding contributions to a better understanding of the issues of education for social work have been brought together in this volume originally published in 1968. Because of the wide relevance of the subject these articles should be valuable not only to social work educators and field supervisors in many different parts of the world but to others concerned with professional education. Today it can be enjoyed in its historical context. | Education for Social Work Readings in Social Work Volume 4

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Group Work Learning and Practice

Group Work Learning and Practice

Group work is central to social work whether it be work with individuals and families residential care community work management or social work education. Despite however the upsurge of interest in this aspect of social work method at the time Group Work: Learning and Practice originally published in 1978 represented the first attempt at providing an up-to-date and carefully integrated source book for students – in the form of a series of mainly original and British papers on social group work: its knowledge base; the possible varieties of practice settings and objectives; and its implications for social work education and training models. For new directions in social work education suggested that the small group was to become the core system around which much future social work teaching would be based. The main concern of this new National Institute for Social Work reader – the development and demonstration of intervention skills in practice – would be particularly relevant. The book draws attention to the opportunities for work with groups in the community in residential institutions and with families where the emphasis was rapidly shifting towards the need for greater understanding and use of the small group dimension. Group Work: Learning and Practice would have been widely welcomed both by specialists in group work at the time and all those more generally interested in social work methods – as teachers students practitioners supervisors and as local authority training officers. It would also be of interest to a wider readership of teachers youth workers and those concerned with the group dynamics and counselling fields. | Group Work Learning and Practice

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Social Work with Families Readings in Social Work Volume 1

Social Work with Families Readings in Social Work Volume 1

Originally published in 1965 this book gathers together some outstanding contributions to various aspects of social work with families. The subject was now more than ever of concern to social workers as fresh knowledge added to their understanding of the dynamics of family life and interaction. The papers which compose the book were written by well-known authors from both sides of the Atlantic. They are arranged in three sections dealing with: normal and less normal families as a group; with particular crisis situations for children; and with some more theoretical concepts contributing to an understanding of family types. This volume was the first in a series of Readings in Social Work designed to collect together significant articles on different aspects of social work. | Social Work with Families Readings in Social Work Volume 1

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International Reflections on Approaches to Mental Health Social Work

International Reflections on Approaches to Mental Health Social Work

Growing out of an interest in exploring the contemporary contexts and practices related to mental health social work across the world this book provides a range of insights into the social factors which contribute sometimes quite significantly to the emergence of mental health problems for individuals and even whole communities. The range and scope of mental health social work is highlighted through the different accounts of therapeutic work advocacy support and rehabilitation. But this collection goes further and also provides the reader with critical analyses of social work practice and social policies in certain contexts thus inviting the reader to a more reflective consideration of the value of mental health perspectives in social work in general. Taken as a whole the collection suggests that social work engages with the field of mental health in diverse creative and very reflective ways yet is always focused on the needs and rights of those for whom problems with mental health can be personally challenging and often disempowering. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Social Work Practice. | International Reflections on Approaches to Mental Health Social Work

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Social Change and Social Work The Changing Societal Conditions of Social Work in Time and Place

Social Change and Social Work The Changing Societal Conditions of Social Work in Time and Place

Social Change and Social Work discusses and examines how social work is challenged by social political and economic tendencies going on in current societies. The authors ask how social work as a discipline and practice is encountering global and local transformations. Divided into three parts topics covered include the changing social work mandate throughout history; social work paradigms and theoretical considerations; phenomenological social work; practice research; and gender and generational research. Taken together the chapters in this anthology provide an authoritative and up-to-date overview of current discussions within the European social work research community. | Social Change and Social Work The Changing Societal Conditions of Social Work in Time and Place

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Social Work and Social Values Readings in Social Work Volume 3

Social Work and Social Values Readings in Social Work Volume 3

Originally published in 1967 this volume of the Readings in Social Work series would appeal especially to social workers administrators social work teachers and those who were becoming increasingly concerned about the whole question of value assumptions in social work at the time. So far little had been written on a subject of lively discussion amongst practitioners and students alike; in this volume are gathered together some of the most influential and often quoted articles which had appeared in Britain and the United States in recent years. They deal not only with the general ethics of professional practice and specific situations but also with conflicting value judgments in administrative settings and the relation between administration and values. | Social Work and Social Values Readings in Social Work Volume 3

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Integrating Social Work Methods

Integrating Social Work Methods

Throughout its history social work has been seeking a means to state its purposes and methodology as a unity that transcends the purposes and methodology applicable in particular fields of practice or sanctioned by particular legislation or practised by a particular kind of worker. Recent changes in society developments in social work practice new additions to the knowledge base of social work and current reorganisation of the social services had led to an intensified interest in this ‘integrated’ approach. Originally published in 1977 Integrating Social Work Methods introduces the reader to the main developments in the conceptualisation of a unitary method. It clarifies what it is that is being unified identifies issues involved in the attempt to unify and discusses their implications for social work practice and training. As such it represented the first substantial British text in the field and was widely welcomed by social work practitioners administrators and educators at the time.

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Social Work A Reader

Social Work A Reader

Building on the successful 1st edition this reader brings together some of the most significant ideas that have informed social work practice over the last fifty years. At the same time as presenting these foundational extracts the book includes commentaries that allow the reader to understand the selected extracts on their own terms as well as to be aware of their relations to each other and to the wider social work context. There is no settled view or easy consensus about what social work is and should be and the ideas reflected in this volume are themselves diverse and complex. The world of social work has changed greatly over the last ten years and this new edition reflects that change with new material on the decolonisation of social work knowledges the greater emphasis on inter-disciplinarity and co-production and the new concern for identities. With an accessible introduction to contextualise the selections the book is divided into three main sections each presenting key texts drawn from a wide range of perspectives: psychological sociological philosophical educational and political as well as perspectives that are grounded in the experiences of practitioners and those who use services which have contributed to the development of: the profession of social work knowledge and values for social work and practice in social work. By providing students and practitioners with an easy way into reading first-hand some of the most interesting foundational texts of the subject it will be required reading for all undergraduate and postgraduate programmes and professionals undertaking post-qualifying training. | Social Work A Reader

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Made To Work Mobilising Contemporary Worklives

Made To Work Mobilising Contemporary Worklives

Made to Work analyses the conditions of mobile knowledge work (MKW) in contemporary worklives contrasting and drawing parallels among three highly significant sectors of the Knowledge Economy: academia information communication technology (ICT) management and digital creative work. It introduces the concept of ‘corollary work’ to characterise the elusive work underpinning the configuration of workers informational technological relational and infrastructural resources in (re)producing liveable worklives. It ultimately illuminates the myriad strands of corollary work that enable MKW to take place and contributes to emergent debates on how exploitation at least in the domain of MKW can be named resisted and creatively subverted. In so doing it opens up a conversation about the complex ways in which contemporary worklives are ‘made to work’ and about potential interventions to bring about more just worklife conditions in the future. | Made To Work Mobilising Contemporary Worklives

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Mental Health Social Work Observed

Mental Health Social Work Observed

Despite extensive changes in the organisation of social and psychiatric services there had been no study of mental health social work in the UK since the early 1960s. There was however no shortage of ‘received wisdom’ about the perceived failure of social work to provide a service to the mentally disordered. Originally published in 1984 it was to provide some basic information about the practice of social work in this field that the study was conducted on which Mental Health Social Work Observed is based. The authors looked at both long-term work and emergency work in which the use of compulsory powers was requested. In addition to the views of social workers the opinions of psychiatrists family practitioners and of the clients themselves were sought in order to gain a full picture of social work in practice. Through their thorough immersion in the field of study and through their experience of social work and of mental health issues the authors were able to provide a sympathetic and lucid account of the difficulties of mental health social work and of the thorny issue of interprofessional relationships which will ring true to the practitioner. They produced recommendations relevant to social work practice at the time and this book would be found useful to social workers and their managers to psychiatrists family practitioners psychiatric nurses and clinical psychologists. Of particular relevance to the then current changes in the role of the social worker under the new mental health legislation is the authors’ study of mental health emergency work culminating in a recommended code of practice.

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Community Work Learning and Supervision

Community Work Learning and Supervision

The growth of interest in community work during the seventies was very marked. But while much had been written on the actual practice of community work there was for too long a lack of British material on the vital subjects of useful theory training and the development of skills. In this title originally published in 1977 the authors brought together for the National Institute for Social Work experienced teachers and practitioners of community work in an integrated and carefully structured textbook which would further understanding of the means through which community workers develop their knowledge and skills; it would be widely welcomed by all those involved in aspects of community work – as teachers students practitioners supervisors and as local authority training officers. The first part of the book has four chapters on the principle means through which community workers develop their skills within their employing agencies. Part two deals with theories and the contribution made to community work by the social sciences group work research methods and management and planning studies. The last part of the book contains three papers which examine the major problems and issues in the placement learning experiences and assessment of students on field work. | Community Work Learning and Supervision

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The Routledge Handbook of Social Work Theory

The Routledge Handbook of Social Work Theory

The Routledge Handbook of Social Work Theory provides an interdisciplinary and international introduction to social work theory. It presents an analytical review of the wide array of theoretical ideas that influence social work on a global scale. It sets the agenda for future trends within social work theory. Separated into four parts this handbook examines important themes within the discourses on social work theory as well as offering a critical evaluation of how theoretical ideas influence social work as a profession and in practice. It includes a diverse range of interdisciplinary topics covering the aims and nature of social work social work values and ethics social work practice theories and the use of theory in different fields of practice. The contributors show how and why theory is so important to social work and analyze the impact these concepts have made on social intervention. Bringing together an international team of leading academics within the social work field and newer contributors close to practice this handbook is essential reading for all those studying social work as well as practitioners policymakers and those involved in the associated fields of health and social care.

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Navigating the Return-to-Work Experience for New Parents Maintaining Work-Family Well-Being

Navigating the Return-to-Work Experience for New Parents Maintaining Work-Family Well-Being

Parenthood can be one of the most fulfilling altering and challenging life events. This book is set within the background of the reality of many parents’ return-to-work experience the task of re-engaging with work and maintaining a job or a career and the difficulties that parenthood poses for balancing the demands of a new family with the demands of work. It helps us understand this reality give voice to new parents and offer relief in the knowledge that we know a lot about these challenges and most importantly how we can start to address them. The book brings together a number of internationally recognized experts from research practice and policy to explore the issues and offer evidence-based solutions around return-to-work after having children. It takes a balanced approach to theory and practice to cover topics such as equality stereotypes work-family conflict training and development and workplace culture among others whilst integrating research and policy and illustrating learnings with case studies from parents and examples from countries that lead the way. It will appeal to parents researchers and employers in any sector or economy across the world. Ultimately it will help develop ways for new parents to re-engage with work successfully while maintaining their work-family well-being. | Navigating the Return-to-Work Experience for New Parents Maintaining Work-Family Well-Being

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Global Women's Work Perspectives on Gender and Work in the Global Economy

Global Women's Work Perspectives on Gender and Work in the Global Economy

This volume considers how women are shaping the global economic landscape through their labor activism and multiple discourses about work. Bringing together an interdisciplinary group of international scholars the book offers a gendered examination of work in the global economy and analyses the effects of the 2008 downturn on women’s labor force participation and workplace activism. The book addresses three key themes: exploitation versus opportunity; women’s agency within the context of changing economic options; and women’s negotiations and renegotiations of unpaid social reproductive labor. This uniquely interdisciplinary and comparative analysis will be crucial reading for anyone with an interest in gender and the post-crisis world. | Global Women's Work Perspectives on Gender and Work in the Global Economy

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Sex Work Mobility & Health

Sex Work Mobility & Health

First published in 2004. Major changes have taken place in the sex industry in Europe. Over the past decade we have seen increasing migration and diversification along with major shifts in policy towards the industry. There is very little published on sex work in Europe but the demand is growing for information and analyses of the situation today from people working on health policy gender and employment. The authors of this book examine sex work in terms of economic and social restructuring concerns about infection and recent policy developments on prostitution. | Sex Work Mobility & Health

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Therapeutic Work for Children with Complex Trauma A Three-Track Psychodynamic Approach

Therapeutic Work for Children with Complex Trauma A Three-Track Psychodynamic Approach

Therapeutic Work for Children with Complex Trauma offers a contemporary three-track psychodynamic treatment model to mental health professionals working with traumatised children and their caregivers. The book provides a contemporary and comprehensive approach to working with traumatised children by integrating knowledge and skills from traditional psychodynamic child psychotherapy and more contemporary trauma-informed and mentalization-based frameworks. It advocates three tracks of work involving direct work with the child work with the child’s primary caregivers and work with the network. The book is divided into two parts: Part I of the book covers the theoretical background and Part II discusses the core components and phases of the trauma-informed and mentalization-based treatment approach. The authors bring out the specific dynamics of the psychotherapeutic work through four composite cases woven through the book. Written in accessible language this treatment guide is primarily aimed at psychodynamically trained psychotherapists mental health professionals and professional caregivers working with traumatised children. | Therapeutic Work for Children with Complex Trauma A Three-Track Psychodynamic Approach

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Social Work and Ethnicity

Social Work and Ethnicity

Originally published in 1982 Social Work and Ethnicity was the first purpose-written text for social work students administrators and practitioners designed to prepare them conceptually and practically for work in Britain’s established ethnic minority communities. Much more than the vicissitudes of immigration now had to be considered: this book discusses social work’s response to chronic racial discrimination and disadvantage and the hazards and advantages of taking ethnicity into account in service delivery. Emphasised throughout is the role of the social services in promoting good race relations and a better deal for black people. Social Work and Ethnicity is based on research carried out by Mrs Cheetham and sponsored by the DHSS to identify the major concerns of social workers with ethnic minority clients and to study the development of relevant services in Britain and the USA. The contributing authors are mainly practitioners and come from a wide variety of ethnic backgrounds; in fact this is the first book on social work to be published in Britain to which a substantial contribution has been made by black writers. The specially commissioned contributions discuss the fundamental questions of principle in giving special consideration to ethnicity and underline the implications for practice. In particular the lessons which Britain can learn from American experience are reviewed. The book opens with a discussion of political and ethical questions; the problems of assessing need and monitoring services are then examined. This is followed by several chapters on the special needs of various ethnic minority client groups particularly children and young people who now deserve priority attention. The tricky issue of ethnic matching is discussed so too are the different methods of developing services which are appropriate to ethnic minority needs and aspirations. Recruitment training and education for work in a multi-racial society are subjects for several chapters and the book concludes with the experiences of two ethnic minority social workers. This book is a re-issue originally published in 1982. The language used and assumptions made are a reflection of its era and no offence is meant by the Publishers to any reader by this re-publication.

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Work: Marxist and Systems-Theoretical Approaches

Work: Marxist and Systems-Theoretical Approaches

Using Marxist and systems theory as guides this book offers an entry point to the current debate on the role of economy in modern society the change in work organizations and the effect of the economy on the individual. It explores the concepts of ‘work society’ ‘industrial society’ and ‘capitalist society’ to explain the conditions of society as a whole and not just the conditions of businesses making particular use of the category of ‘work’. The first systematic theoretical comparison of Marxism and systems theory it provides a brief overview of the central debates concerning work society and the controversies surrounding organizations in capitalism. As such it will appeal to social scientists and social theorists with interests in the sociology of work industry and organizations. | Work: Marxist and Systems-Theoretical Approaches

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Intersectionality in Social Work Activism and Practice in Context

Intersectionality in Social Work Activism and Practice in Context

This ground breaking book is an innovative passionate and provocative exploration of intersectionality. The sustained emphasis on activism and practice reasserts the potency of intersectionality borne out of Black feminism. The rare and pioneering international reach of this book crosses four continents. In this book context matters: there is no intersectionality without context! Resting on the premise that we cannot work for the liberation of individuals communities and societies without intersectionality this book asks: How does intersectionality challenge the structures and discourses of social work education management and organisation? What is the revolutionary potential of intersectionality? Intersectional in its method and content the blend of practice activism research and theory troubles geopolitical and disciplinary boundaries. The range of topics include: Islamophobia immigration feminist movements social work education violence against women and girls gender sexuality race disability age religion nationality citizenship policy and legal frameworks. This book will appeal to activists for social justice social work practitioners researchers lecturers students and those working in the field of Black feminist thinking. The focus on the activism of intersectionality provides a clear pathway into Black feminist thinking and its application to social work internationally and to emancipatory collective political activism worldwide. | Intersectionality in Social Work Activism and Practice in Context

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Rethinking Work Essays on Building a Better Workplace

Rethinking Work Essays on Building a Better Workplace

This collection of brief essays by thought-leaders scholars activists psychologists and social scientists imagines new workplace structures and policies that promote decent and fair work for all members of society especially those who are most vulnerable. The world of work has been deteriorating for decades and the very institution of work needs to be systematically understood critiqued reimagined and rebuilt. This book offers thoughtful suggestions for new work arrangements individual strategies for enhancing one’s work life and recommendations for innovative systemic and institutional reforms. The collection offers critical analyses in conjunction with constructive solutions on rebuilding work providing direction and context for ongoing debates and policy discussions about work. The book will be of interest to activists policy makers management and leaders scholars professionals students and general readers interested work-based reform efforts and social change. | Rethinking Work Essays on Building a Better Workplace

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Work and Retirement

Work and Retirement

In the early 1980s world recession and widespread unemployment had accentuated an existing trend – more people retiring from work early and living longer after doing so. Some were adequately prepared for a life of well-earned ‘leisure’ in retirement but too many were not. The policies of employers unions and governments on retirement needed to be challenged in societies where work opportunities were collapsing but where leisure activities and values were not yet strong enough to take their place. Originally published in 1982 Dr Parker a sociologist provides a careful and critical examination of what we knew about retirement and discusses possible alternative answers to the various problems involved at the time. The history of retirement is first considered followed by a conceptual analysis of types of retirement. There are chapters on preparation for retirement the capacity of older people to work and on the varying experiences of retirement. Separate consideration is given to the question of work after retirement age and whether retirement is actually experienced as leisure. The concluding chapter examines various policy alternatives for dealing with the problems raised earlier in the book. Work and Retirement was intended for students of industrial sociology and industrial psychology for personnel and human resource professionals for trade unionists and for all those who had an interest in understanding the developments in the field of retirement and the older working population. Now it can be read in its historical context.

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