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  • Social Work and Poverty

    A Critical Approach

    by Lester Parrott ...
    Social work and poverty: A critical approach provides a timely review of the key issues facing social workers and service users in working together to combat poverty.First, it situates social work and poverty within a historical context, then analyses definitions and theories of poverty along with their importance in enabling anti-oppressive practice with service users. It goes on to evaluate the ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Social Work and Social Care

    by Lester Parrott ...
    Social Work and Social Care has been revised and updated to take into account the profound changes that have occurred in social work over the past two years, in particular the extensive legislative changes to childrens and community care services. A new chapter examines the relevance of social exclusion for social work and continues to affirm the importance of equal opportunities and anti ... Read more

    $60.99 CAD

  • Values and Ethics in Social Work Practice

    by Lester Parrott ...
    Series series Transforming Social Work Practice Series
    Applying values and ethics to social work practice is taught widely across the qualifying degree programme, on both Masters and BA courses. This book is a clear introduction to this subject and will help students develop their understanding by showing social work students how ethics can have positive impacts on the lives of vulnerable people. There are chapters on how social workers can make good ... Read more

    $65.99 CAD

  • Social Work in Context

    Theory and Concepts

    by Noreen Maguinness, Lester Parrott ...
    This book examines key sociological theories that have contributed to the understanding of the nature of social work, its organisation and delivery. It provides key sociological concepts and theories to help student social workers better understand the nature of their work and the social and political context within which they will be working. Taking a practical approach to social work, and ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

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    by Spicker, Paul ...
    Social Policy: Themes and approaches is a fully revised, updated and extended edition of a bestselling social policy textbook, extensively reworked and adapted to meet the needs of its international readership. The book lays out the architecture of social policy as a field of study, providing a sense of the scope, range and purpose of the subject while developing critical awareness of problems, ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Social Policy for Social Work

    Placing Social Work in its Wider Context

    by Karen Clarke, Lorraine Green ...
    Contemporary social work cannot be understood without an appreciation of the broader context of social policy in which it takes place. Such an understanding is increasingly important as social workers are expected to work across institutional, professional and even national boundaries in new ways profoundly affected by the changing global context.This insightful book examines how shifts in the ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Social Policy

    Theory and Practice

    by Paul Spicker ...
    Social Policy: Theory and practice is a fully revised, updated and extended edition of a bestselling social policy textbook, extensively reworked and adapted to meet the needs of its international readership. The book lays out the architecture of social policy as a field of study, binding the discussion of theory to the understanding of social policy in practice. It aims to provide students and ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Mental Health in a Multi-Ethnic Society

    A Multidisciplinary Handbook

    Edited by Dr Suman Fernando, Frank Keating ...
    This new edition of Mental Health in a Multi-Ethnic Society is an authoritative, comprehensive guide on issues around race, culture and mental health service provision. It has been updated to reflect the changes in the UK over the last ten years and features entirely new chapters by over twenty authors, expanding the range of topics by including issues of particular concern for women, family ... Read more

    $77.99 CAD

  • Tackling Poverty and Social Exclusion

    Promoting Social Justice in Social Work

    by John H. Pierson ...
    In our highly unequal Britain poverty and social exclusion continue to dominate the lives of users of social work and social care services. At the same time, spending cuts and welfare reform have changed the context within which services are delivered. The third edition of this unique textbook seeks to capture the complexity and diversity of practice relating to social exclusion as social workers ... Read more

    $74.99 CAD

  • Reclaiming Social Work

    Challenging Neo-liberalism and Promoting Social Justice

    by Iain Ferguson ...
    Reclaiming Social Work is a thought-provoking and innovative book which examines how social work′s commitment to social justice has been deepened and enriched by its contact with wider social movements. It explores the tensions between social work values and a market-driven agenda, and locates new resources of hope for the social work profession in the developing resistance to managerialism.The ... Read more

    $86.99 CAD

  • Social Work, Poverty And Social Exclusion

    by Dave Backwith ...
    This book is a key text that helps students link the theory of working with socially excluded people to practice. ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • Aspirations, Access and Attainment

    International perspectives on widening participation and an agenda for change

    Edited by Neil Murray, Christopher Klinger ...
    It is perhaps ironic that as the global financial crisis has, in some cases, led governments and institutions to pull back from and/or set more modest goals and associated funding around widening participation, there is an ever-growing sense that the ideals buttressing the widening participation movement are becoming more universally acknowledged by educators across the globe. That acknowledgement ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD