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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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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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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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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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Team Roles at Work

Team Roles at Work

Considered one of the first and most important ‘management gurus’ the name Belbin is synonymous with Team Role theory a familiar concept for managers and management trainers across the world. This fully updated third edition of Team Roles at Work provides the practical application of the theory in everyday work situations. This new edition has up-to-date practical examples and summaries to reflect contemporary scenarios and a brand-new chapter on remote team working an issue that has gained even greater significance in recent times. The book also includes a Foreword to capture the impact of Meredith’s work in the field of management and team working. Further information accompanies the book on the Belbin website www. belbin. com including a summary of the nine Team Roles with their icons descriptions strengths and allowable weaknesses. Team Roles at Work is the best-selling second book written by Meredith Belbin designed for any manager who wants to understand the practical application of Team Role theory.

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Children and Work Study of Socialization

Children and Work Study of Socialization

What do children know about work careers and related topics? What is the pattern of growth in values attitudes beliefs and knowledge? Using quantitative and anecdotal evidence gathered from interviewing over 900 grade-school students in five New Jersey communities the authors analyze childhood socialization to the concept of work. Existing literature on this topic focuses on the critical years of oc-cupational choice. But Goldstein and Oldham strongly suggest that much of the child's work-related development has already occurred prior to entry into secondary school and that career educa-tion must receive increased em-phasis during the elementary years. Their evidence corroborates the pattern of rapid progress to-ward childhood awareness of im-portant social phenomena such as war politics race gender roles and economics. By the seventh grade children have an awareness in these areas that approximates that of adults. Traditional stereo-types concerning appropriate work roles for women continue to exist at the elementary school level. This work is a comprehensive empirical treatment of childhood socialization to work fitting neat-ly into the growing body of litera-ture on the socialization of the child into various political eco-nomic and social roles. Children and Work is in the sociological tradition but the findings are pre-sented in the context of a growing body of social science research on early socialization. | Children and Work Study of Socialization

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Social Work Practice in the Criminal Justice System

Social Work Practice in the Criminal Justice System

Social Work Practice in the Criminal Justice System presents an overview of the criminal justice system for social workers exploring the networks and institutions which comprise it. Integrating social work ethics and a commitment to social justice this textbook explores social work practice roles to address social problems within the criminal justice system and promotes the development of knowledge skills and critical reflection in this increasingly important area of practice. In addition to covering the four key areas for social work practice – law enforcement courts corrections and legislation it covers police social work and forensic social work. This second edition has been updated to include: The opioid crisis and opioid courts Separate chapters describing special populations and contemporary issues in the criminal justice system Expanded criminal justice perspectives and theoretical frameworks. Examining the challenges and opportunities of social work practice in the criminal justice system this is the ideal text for social work instructors students and practitioners working with or within the criminal justice system. Each chapter includes a summary of social work practice implications key terms and suggestions for further reading.

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Social Work in Health Emergencies Global Perspectives

Social Work in Health Emergencies Global Perspectives

This is the first comprehensive book that provides accessible international knowledge for practitioners students and academics about social work in health emergencies and spans fields of practice across world regions with particular reference to the COVID-19 pandemic. Divided into three sections: • Regional Historical and Social Work Perspectives takes a journey through world regions during the first six months of the pandemic as it unfolded explores the lessons found in the history of pandemics and situates public health social work practice in the values of the profession. Situating the diversity of challenges and opportunities in context in turn influences current and future social work practice. • Social Work Practice Issues and Responses explores social work practice innovations and responses across eleven key practice fields. International authors feature social work responses during the COVID-19 health emergency from different regions of the world. • Preparing for the Future analyses broader concepts innovations and the implications for future practices as social work enters a new era of service delivery. The 20 chapters explore the convergence of pandemic politics and planet which is critiqued within a framework of the profession’s ethics and values of human dignity human rights and social justice. Social work’s place in public health is firmly situated and built on the premise that the value social work brings to the table deserves recognition and should be documented to inform the development of the profession and future practice and how social work must carry lessons forward to prepare for the next pandemic. The book is relevant to a wide range of audiences including practitioners educators and students in social work human services international development and public health as well as policy makers and researchers. | Social Work in Health Emergencies Global Perspectives

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