Conveys the breadth and depth of the social work profession's collective expertise, formulated and written by social workers from many backgrounds and competencies.
Encyclopedia of Social Work
With 110 articles and entries, this book provides a comprehensive overview of social work with groups from its initial development to its astounding range of diverse practice today with many populations in different places.
These developments, however, may lead to a crisis of incommensurability among organizational theories. Professional social workers practise in organizational settings. Social workers who want to study ... The Organization-society Nexus.
The intent of the encyclopedia is to provide readers with information about how these three nations have dealt with social welfare issues, some similar across borders, others unique, as well as to describe important events, developments, ...
Now a consistently-updated resource from the NASW Press and Oxford University Press, Encyclopedia of Social Work provides students, scholars, and practitioners with a digital guide for a lifetime of social service.
Simonne Monet-Chartrand Approaches to minority-sensitive practice have significant implications for social work agencies, particularly those that serve ethnically or culturally diverse clients. Ongoing evaluation of organizational ...
A strong emphasis is placed on interdisciplinary and inter-professional perspectives. The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Social Work offers an essential starting-point for anyone wanting to understand the place of social work in society today.
The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Work provides a concise guide to 400 topics relevant to the practice of social work in the 21st Century. It brings together 250 top authors and covers all service user groups.
This is the leading introduction 200to professional values and ethics in social work.
1983-84 Supplement to the Encyclopedia of Social Work, 17th Edition