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Green Social Work
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 268

Green Social Work

Social work is the profession that claims to intervene to enhance people's well-being. However, social workers have played a low-key role in environmental issues that increasingly impact on people's well-being, both locally and globally. This compelling new contribution confronts this topic head-on, examining environmental issues from a social work perspective. Lena Dominelli draws attention to the important voice of practitioners working on the ground in the aftermath of environmental disasters, whether these are caused by climate change, industrial accidents or human conflict. The author explores the concept of ‘green social work' and its role in using environmental crises to address pov...

Introducing Social Work
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 195

Introducing Social Work

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009-03-16
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  • Publisher: Polity

In this lively introduction suitable for students at any level, Lena Dominelli explores the extraordinary scope and importance of social work. Using engaging examples from contemporary social work practice, she clearly answers questions about what social work is, how social workers work in a variety of settings and the clients they are likely to deal with. She tackles head on the dilemmas social workers face in their day-to-day work and the challenges of working with limited resources and marginalized social groups such as the elderly, the homeless and abused children. This work will affirm the valuable contribution social workers can make to human wellbeing and demonstrate how the promise and potential of social work can be, and is, realized.

Social Work in a Globalizing World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 222

Social Work in a Globalizing World

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-12-28
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  • Publisher: Polity

Written by a leading social work academic whose work is internationally renowned, this book confronts contemporary challenges facing social workers in relation to globalization and the rise of international global problems.

Sociology for Social Work
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 294

Sociology for Social Work

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1997
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  • Publisher: Palgrave

Sociology for Social Work addresses the relevance of sociological concepts to social work practice, arguing that a lack of understanding of the ways in which social work fits into society can lead to impoverished social work practice

Introducing Social Work
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 195

Introducing Social Work

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009-03-16
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  • Publisher: Polity

In this lively introduction suitable for students at any level, Lena Dominelli explores the extraordinary scope and importance of social work. Using engaging examples from contemporary social work practice, she clearly answers questions about what social work is, how social workers work in a variety of settings and the clients they are likely to deal with. She tackles head on the dilemmas social workers face in their day-to-day work and the challenges of working with limited resources and marginalized social groups such as the elderly, the homeless and abused children. This work will affirm the valuable contribution social workers can make to human wellbeing and demonstrate how the promise and potential of social work can be, and is, realized.

Anti Oppressive Social Work Theory and Practice
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 221

Anti Oppressive Social Work Theory and Practice

This book, by one of the leading theorists of social work, tackles a subject of crucial importance to students and practitioners alike: how social workers can enable their clients to challenge and transcend the manifold oppressions that disempower them (whether through poverty, disability, mental illness, etc.). It moves from a discussion of social work's purpose and ambitions to an exposition of theory and, from there, to the practice arenas of working with individuals, in groups, within organisations, and within a wider social and political context.

Feminist Social Work Theory and Practice
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 203

Feminist Social Work Theory and Practice

Feminist theories of social work have been criticised in recent years for treating women as a uniform category and displaying insufficient sensitivity to the complex ways in which other social divisions (those of race, age, disability, etc.) impact on gender relations. This major text by a leading writer in the field seeks to develop a new framework for feminist social work that takes on board postmodernist arguments to do with difference and power yet retains a commitment to collective solidarity and social change. As such, it will be essential reading for students, educators and practitioners alike in social work.

Women and Community Action
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 272

Women and Community Action

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006-05-17
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  • Publisher: Policy Press

Including case studies to illustrate the topics discussed, this title highlights women's role in a community's growth and development, taking into account the considerable changes in society since the first edition.

The Routledge Handbook of Green Social Work
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 693

The Routledge Handbook of Green Social Work

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-03-28
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  • Publisher: Routledge

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 disaste...

Beyond Racial Divides
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 326

Beyond Racial Divides

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2001
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Written by leading authorities in international social work, this book addresses complex issues of ethnicity and racial discrimination. The contributors focus on innovative theories and practice designed to promote an emancipatory social work which sets itself the goal of eradicating social injustice.