The Routledge Handbook Of Social Work Practice Research

Author : Lynette Joubert,Martin Webber
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429581144

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The Routledge Handbook of Social Work Practice Research by Lynette Joubert,Martin Webber Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Social Work Practice Research is the first international handbook to focus on practice research for social work. Bringing together leading scholars in the field from Europe, the USA and the Asia Pacific region, it provides an up-to-the minute overview of the latest thinking in practice research whilst also providing practical advice on how to undertake practice research in the field. It is divided into five sections: State of the art Methodologies Pedagogies Applications Expanding the frontiers The range of topics discussed will enhance student development as well as increase the capacity of practitioners to conduct research; develop coordinating and leadership roles; and liaise with multiple stakeholders who will strengthen the context base for practice research. As such, this handbook will be essential reading for all social work students, practitioners and academics as well as those working in other health and social care settings.

Author : Stephen A. Webb
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 941 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351264389

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The Routledge Handbook of Critical Social Work by Stephen A. Webb Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Critical Social Work brings together the world’s leading scholars in the field to provide a cutting-edge overview of classic and current research and future trends in the subject. Comprised of 48 chapters divided into six parts: Historical, social, and political influences Mapping the theoretical and conceptual terrain Methods of engagement and modes of analysis Critical contexts for practice and policy Professional education and socialisation Future challenges, directions, and transformations it provides an authoritative guide to theory and method, and the primary debates of today in social work from a critical perspective. This handbook is a major reference work and the first book to comprehensively map the wide-ranging territory of critical social work. It does so by addressing its conceptual developments, its methodological advances, its value-based front-line practice and as an influence on the policy field. By offering a definitive survey of current academic knowledge as it relates to professional practice, it provides the first comprehensive, up-to-date, definitive work of reference while at the same time identifying emerging, innovative and cutting-edge areas.

Author : Malcolm Payne,Emma Reith-Hall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351811521

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The Routledge Handbook of Social Work Theory by Malcolm Payne,Emma Reith-Hall Pdf

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.

Author : Tanja Kleibl,Ronald Lutz,Ndangwa Noyoo,Benjamin Bunk,Annika Dittmann,Boitumelo Seepamore
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429888618

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The Routledge Handbook of Postcolonial Social Work by Tanja Kleibl,Ronald Lutz,Ndangwa Noyoo,Benjamin Bunk,Annika Dittmann,Boitumelo Seepamore Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Postcolonial Social Work reflects on and dissects the challenging issues confronting social work practice and education globally in the post-colonial era. By analysing how countries in the so-called developing and developed world have navigated some of the inherited systems from the colonial era, it shows how they have used them to provide relevant social work methods which are also responsive to the needs of a postcolonial setting. This is an analytical and reflexive handbook that brings together different scholars from various parts of the world – both North and South – so as to distill ideas from scholars relating to ways that can advance social work of the South and critique social work of the North in so far as it is used as a template for social work approaches in postcolonial settings. It determines whether and how approaches, knowledge-bases, and methods of social work have been indigenised and localised in the Global South in the postcolonial era. This handbook provides the reader with multiple new theoretical approaches and empirical experiences and creates a space of action for the most marginalised communities worldwide. It will be of interest to researchers and practitioners, as well as those in social work education.

Author : Kieran O'Donoghue,Lambert Engelbrecht
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000387292

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The Routledge International Handbook of Social Work Supervision by Kieran O'Donoghue,Lambert Engelbrecht Pdf

This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of social work supervision internationally and presents an analytical review of social work supervision theory, practice, and research. Presented in seven parts: International perspectives Supervision settings Roles, responsibilities, and relationships Models and approaches The interactional process Leading and managing supervision Emerging areas The book examines how supervision contributes to the well-being, development, and practice of social workers. It also sets the agenda for the future development of social work supervision internationally. Social work supervision is examined across countries, practice settings, and in terms of participants' roles, relationships, and responsibilities. Contributors show how and why social work supervision is integral to social work and the rich diversity of ways supervision can be practiced. Bringing together an international team of social work supervision scholars, researchers, supervisors, and practitioners, this handbook is essential reading for social workers, supervisors, managers, policy advisors, and professional leaders.

Author : Audrey L. Begun,Margaret M. Murray
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 851 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780429515132

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The Routledge Handbook of Social Work and Addictive Behaviors by Audrey L. Begun,Margaret M. Murray Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Social Work and Addictive Behaviors is a definitive resource about addictive behaviors, emphasizing substance misuse, gambling, and problematic technology use. Contents address their prevalence in various communities and populations globally, theories related to their origins and etiology, and what is currently known about effective intervention strategies, education, and research. Social work’s biopsychosocial, lifespan, and person-in-environment perspectives underpin the book contents which are applicable to a wide range of professional and social science disciplines. Contents are divided into five sections: The scope and nature of addictive behavior and related problems Addictive behavior across the lifespan and specific populations Interventions to prevent and address addictive behavior and related problems Issues frequently co-occurring with addictive behavior Moving forward This handbook provides students, practitioners, and scholars with a strong focus on cutting-edge high-quality research. With contributions from a global interdisciplinary team of leading scholars, this handbook is relevant to readers from social work, public health, psychology, education, sociology, criminal justice, medicine, nursing, human services, and health professions.

Author : Christine Callahan,Jodi Jacobson Frey,Rachel Imboden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351165662

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The Routledge Handbook on Financial Social Work by Christine Callahan,Jodi Jacobson Frey,Rachel Imboden Pdf

The Routledge Handbook on Financial Social Work explicates the financial needs, issues, and interventions within populations and theoretical approaches, and it assists clinician practitioners in intervening expertly and comprehensively. This book covers a range of issues in populations seeking services around complex financial needs and struggles, including those in the child welfare system; those with housing issues or facing homelessness; those coping with chronic and acute medical and psychiatric illnesses; those recovering from interpersonal violence; those facing recovery from incarceration; children and families involved in the child welfare system; and much more. In addition, policies will be woven in to inform the work. This book thoroughly explores research and evidence-based interventions around each population, and teaches clinicians to understand and treat financial distress holistically and empathically. This handbook will explain why understanding financial capability in these populations is so critical and how clinicians can step up their practices to meet those needs. Professionals from multiple disciplines ranging from financial therapists to social workers to financial coaches to financial planners will find this handbook eminently useful.

Author : Stephen M. Marson,Robert E. McKinney
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367728036

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The Routledge Handbook of Social Work Ethics and Values by Stephen M. Marson,Robert E. McKinney Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Social Work Ethics and Values is a comprehensive exploration and assessment of current and future issues facing social work practice and education. It is the first book to codify ethical practices for social workers from across the globe and in myriad workplace settings. Each section meaningfully captures this complex subject area: ethics writ large visions of diverse values abortion relationship and gender issues micro and mezzo practice settings social work education technological issues spirituality globalism economic issues special topics Leaving no stone unturned, this handbook comprehensively addresses the most controversial topics in an evenhanded manner. Among professional social workers, values and ethics traverse political boundaries, cultural identifications, and languages. This handbook will help to make sense of this unity within diversity. With contributions from the world's leading scholars, this book will be a valuable resource for all social work students, academics, researchers, and practitioners who seek a coherent and objective analysis in the abstract arena of ethics and values.

Author : Lena Dominelli
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351727464

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The Routledge Handbook of Green Social Work by Lena Dominelli Pdf

Green social work espouses a holistic approach to all peoples and other living things – plants and animals, and the physical ecosystem; emphasises the relational nature of all its constituent parts; and redefines the duty to care for and about others as one that includes the duty to care for and about planet earth. By acknowledging the interdependency of all living things it allows for the inclusion of all systems and institutions in its remit, including both (hu)man-made and natural disasters arising from the (hu)made ones of poverty to chemical pollution of the earth’s land, waters and soils and climate change, to the natural hazards like earthquakes and volcanoes which turn to disasters through human (in)action. Green social work’s value system is also one that favours equality, social inclusion, the equitable distribution of resources, and a rights-based approach to meeting people’s needs to live in an ethical and sustainable manner. Responding to these issues is one of the biggest challenges facing social workers in the twenty-first century which this Handbook is intended to address. Through providing the theories, practices, policies, knowledge and skills required to act responsibly in responding to the diverse disasters that threaten to endanger all living things and planet earth itself, this green social work handbook will be required reading for all social work students, academics and professionals, as well as those working in the fields of community development and disaster management.

Author : Rajendra Baikady,Sajid S. M.,Varoshini Nadesan,M. Rezaul Islam
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000540949

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The Routledge Handbook of Field Work Education in Social Work by Rajendra Baikady,Sajid S. M.,Varoshini Nadesan,M. Rezaul Islam Pdf

This Handbook provides an authoritative account of international fieldwork education in social work. It presents an overview of advances in research in social work field education through in-depth analyses and global case studies. Key features: * Discusses critical issues in teaching social work and curriculum development; health care social work; stimulated learning; field education policies; needs, challenges, and solutions in fieldwork education; reflexivity training; creativity and partnership; resilience enhancement; integrated and holistic education for social workers; student experience; practice education; and ethical responsibility of social work field instructors. * Covers social work field education across geographical regions (Asia and the Pacific; North and South America; Australia and Oceania; Europe) and major themes and trends from several countries (U.S.A.; Canada; Australia; China; Hong Kong; Sweden; Aotearoa New Zealand; England; Ukraine; Spain; Estonia; Italy; Ireland; Slovenia; Poland; Romania; Greece; Norway; Turkey; and the Czech Republic). * Brings together international comparative perspectives on fieldwork education in social work from leading experts and social work educators. This Handbook will be an essential resource for scholars and researchers of social work, development studies, social anthropology, sociology, and education. It will also be useful to educators and practitioners of social work in global institutions of higher studies as well as civil society organisations.

Author : Dominique Moyse Steinberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317549543

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The Social Work Student's Research Handbook by Dominique Moyse Steinberg Pdf

This second edition of The Social Work Student's Research Handbook provides an essential guide for social work students beginning to participate in research. Practical and easy to use, this comprehensive handbook provides instant access to the nuts and bolts of social work research. Each chapter in this second edition has been updated to reflect the dynamic and changing nature of social work research, and three new topical chapters have been included that offer new food for thought on research context and ethics and on the role of evidence in professional practice. The book is intended as a resource to complement the dense and heavy research books available. This text provides the tools students need to fully engage with their research and is an essential reference aid for use alongside professional literature for selecting a problem for social work study with consideration of context and ethics; identifying a design type; developing or selecting an instrument; developing a sampling strategy; collecting and analyzing data; and organizing, writing, disseminating, and utilizing results in a politically sensitive way. The Social Work Student’s Research Handbook is an invaluable resource for undergraduate and graduate social work students as well as practitioners new to the field as they apply what they’ve learned in research courses toward consuming research effectively, implementing original research projects, and ultimately, toward becoming an evidence-based practitioner.

Author : Sarah-Jane Dodd,Taylor & Francis (Londyn).
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1032024208

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The Routledge International Handbook of Social Work and Sexualities by Sarah-Jane Dodd,Taylor & Francis (Londyn). Pdf

Author : Hugh McLaughlin,Peter Beresford,Colin Cameron,Helen Casey,Joe Duffy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429781582

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The Routledge Handbook of Service User Involvement in Human Services Research and Education by Hugh McLaughlin,Peter Beresford,Colin Cameron,Helen Casey,Joe Duffy Pdf

Worldwide, there has been a growth in service user involvement in education and research in recent years. This handbook is the first book which identifies what is happening in different regions of the world to provide different countries and client groups with the opportunity to learn from each other. The book is divided into five sections: Section One examines service user involvement in context exploring theoretical issues which underpin service user involvement. In Section Two we focus on the state of service user involvement in human services education and research across the globe including examples of innovative practice, but also identifying examples of where it is not happening and why. Section Three offers more detailed examination of such involvement in a wide range of professional education learning settings. Section Four focuses on the involvement of service users in research involving a wide range of service user groups and situations. Lastly, Section Five explores future challenges for education and research to ensure involvement remains meaningful. The book includes forty-eight chapters, including seventeen case-studies, from all regions of the world, this is the first book to both highlight the subject’s methodological and theoretical issues and give practical examples in education and research for those wishing to engage in this field. It will be of interest to all service users, scholars and students of social work, nursing, occupational therapy, and other human service subjects.

Author : Karen Christensen,Doria Pilling
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317043928

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The Routledge Handbook of Social Care Work Around the World by Karen Christensen,Doria Pilling Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Social Care Work Around the World provides both a comprehensive and authoritative state-of-the-art review of the current research in this subject. It is the first handbook to cover social care work research from around the world, including both low- and middle-income countries as well as high income countries. Each of the 22 chapters are written by experts on long-term care services, particularly for older people and cover key issues and debates, based on research evidence, on social care work in a specific country. They look at perspectives of social care work from the macro level: the structural conditions for long-term care, including demographic challenges and the long-term care policy, the meso level: the level of provider organizations and intermediaries, and the micro level: views of care workers, care users, and unpaid informal carers. Furthermore, they discuss a number of topics central to discussions of care work including marketization, personalization policies, policy implementation under austerity, the provision of social care work whether through public services, or private arrangements, or mixed types, funding, the feminization of social care and the new role that technology, and robots can play in care work. By drawing together leading scholars from around the world, this book provides an up to the minute snapshot of current scholarship as well as signposting several fruitful avenues for future research. This book is both an invaluable resource for scholars and an indispensable teaching tool for use in the classroom and will be of interest to students, academics, social workers, social policy-makers and human service professionals.

Author : Tom Lawson,Anna Faul,A.N. Verbist
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 635 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317277170

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Research and Statistics for Social Workers by Tom Lawson,Anna Faul,A.N. Verbist Pdf

Using real social work examples written specifically to ally student fears Research and Statistics for Social Workers brings research and statistics together bridging the gap to practice. This book covers - conceptualization, ethics, cultural competence, design, qualitative research, individual and program evaluation as well as nonparametric and parametric statistical tests. The tests are explained narratively, mathematically as well as with a comprehensive step-by-step, fully illustrated SPSS computer analysis of social work data.