Indigenous Social Work Around the World

John Coates

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Social Work Studies
• How can mainstream Western social work learn from and in turn help advance indigenous practice? This volume brings together prominent international sc... Lees meer

Social Work in a Corporate Era

Linda Davies

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Social Work Studies
• The result of collaboration between authors from Canada, Britain and Australia, Social Work in a Corporate Era provides a re-evaluation of the assumpt... Lees meer

Decolonizing Social Work

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Social Work Studies
• In this volume, Indigenous and non-Indigenous social work scholars examine local cultures, beliefs, values, and practices as central to decolonization... Lees meer

Reconfiguring Citizenship

Mehmoona Moosa-Mitha

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Social Work Studies
• Citizenship as a status assumes that all those encompassed by the term 'citizen' are included, albeit within the boundaries of the nation-state. Yet c... Lees meer

Towards Glocal Social Work in the Era of Compressed Modernity

Timo Harrikari, Pirkko-Liisa Rauhala

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Social Work Studies
• This book addresses the change of social work in the frame of modernisation. Through Mary Richmond's classical idea of social work, the book seeks to ... Lees meer

Practice and Research

Ian F Shaw

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Social Work Studies
• Introduced with a new essay that reflects on the 'serendipity, misfires and occasional patterns' in his work, Practice and Research is an overview of ... Lees meer

Spirituality and Social Work

Beth R Crisp

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Social Work Studies
• For much of the twentieth century, professional social work sought to distance itself from its religious origins with the consequence being that the r... Lees meer

Social Work and Migration

Kathleen Valtonen

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Social Work Studies
• Social work increasingly finds itself at the frontline of issues pertaining to immigrant and refugee settlement and integration. In this timely book, ... Lees meer

Reconfiguring Citizenship

Mehmoona Moosa-Mitha

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Social Work Studies
• Citizenship as a status assumes that all those encompassed by the term 'citizen' are included, albeit within the boundaries of the nation-state. Yet c... Lees meer

Indigenous Social Work around the World

John Coates

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Social Work Studies
• How can mainstream Western social work learn from and in turn help advance indigenous practice? This volume brings together prominent international sc... Lees meer

Decolonizing Social Work

John Coates

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Social Work Studies
• Riding on the success of Indigenous Social Work Around the World, this book provides case studies to further scholarship on decolonization, a major an... Lees meer

Reflecting on Social Work - Discipline and Profession

Karen Lyons

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Social Work Studies
• Social work has always been a contested activity and its status as an academic discipline remains uncertain. There is currently renewed interest in th... Lees meer

Professional Discretion in Welfare Services

Tony Evans

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Social Work Studies
• Discretion has re-emerged as an issue of central importance for welfare professionals over the last two decades in the face of an intensification of m... Lees meer

Practice and Research

Ian F Shaw

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Social Work Studies
• Practice and Research is an overview of Professor Ian Shaw's analysis of the complexity and challenges of the practice/research relationship in social... Lees meer

Sexual Identities and Sexuality in Social Work

Priscilla Dunk-West

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Social Work Studies
• Sexuality and sexual identity have been relatively marginalized areas in both social work education and practice. However, changes in policy and legis... Lees meer

Social Work in a Corporate Era

Linda Davies

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Social Work Studies
• A striking new feature of the welfare systems in many Western countries is the extent to which market relations have permeated social services. Concep... Lees meer

Globalization and International Social Work

Malcolm Payne, Gurid Aga Askeland

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Social Work Studies
• Globalization challenges social work with constant social change, making a social worker's job and the task of social work education more complex and ... Lees meer

Globalization and International Social Work

Malcolm Payne, Gurid Aga Askeland

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Social Work Studies
• Globalization challenges social work with constant social change, making a social worker's job and the task of social work education more complex and ... Lees meer

Intercountry Adoption

Karen Smith Rotabi

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Social Work Studies
• Proponents have touted intercountry adoption as a natural intervention for promoting child welfare. However, in cases of fraud and economic incentives... Lees meer

Reflecting on Social Work - Discipline and Profession

Karen Lyons

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Social Work Studies
• Social work has always been a contested activity and its status as an academic discipline remains uncertain. There is currently renewed interest in th... Lees meer

Broadening Horizons

Wanda Thomas Bernard

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Social Work Studies
• While the remit of social work professionals is, in general, locality-based, social work has a long tradition of concern about international issues. B... Lees meer

Professional Discretion in Welfare Services

Tony Evans

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Social Work Studies
• Discretion has re-emerged as an issue of central importance for welfare professionals over the last two decades in the face of an intensification of m... Lees meer

Beyond Racial Divides

Lena Dominelli, Walter Lorenz, Haluk Soydan

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Social Work Studies
• Written by leading authorities in the field, this challenging book addresses complex issues of ethnicity and racial discrimination in ways that encour... Lees meer

Intercountry Adoption

Karen Smith Rotabi

• Hardcover | Contemporary Social Work Studies
• Containing chapters covering the following five areas: policy and regulations; sending country perspectives; outcomes for intercountry adoptees; debat... Lees meer