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This second edition includes material on mind, body and spirit social work, mindfulness, and enhanced content on Indigenous social work.
This work is a concise exploration of the close links between social service practices and cultural values which offers a culturally sensitive model of child protection. It proposes effective strategies to assist social workers in responding to diverse needs and circumstances.
Social work knowledge, theory and practice -- Frameworks, models and practice -- Ecosystems theories -- Onion-peeling theories -- Faulty-engine theories -- Story-telling theories -- Mountain-moving theories -- Reflective practice and theory.
This is a book about social workers and social work. It tells the story of the journey into and through social work of people from around the world living and working in social work today. We hear what has brought them into social work and what has kept them in it since. Their lively accounts demonstrate that commitment and passion remain at the heart of social work today. This new edition of Becoming a Social Worker is made up of entirely new stories. It describes what it is like to be a social worker in a range of different practice settings in different countries. While many of the narratives are from practitioners and educators who either grew up in, or came as adults to, the UK, half of...
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This exciting new book is the first of its kind to offer an analysis of Service Navigation and provide a framework for understanding the role and its application across a range of fields of practice. With an emphasis on the participation of individuals in their own care, it directly addresses the recent changes in policy and service development in health and human services, including the introduction of the National Disability Insurance Scheme. Developed by a team of experts at one of Australia's leading universities, this unique text helps social workers, nurses, and allied health workers navigate the various systems that the service user has to use to become responsible for managing their own care arrangements and to help them to achieve their desired goals.
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This volume puts the spotlight on worker well-being. It looks at key questions such as: How important is incentive pay in increasing worker productivity? Does monitoring productivity affect a worker's earnings trajectory? How is the decision to retire different in two-earner families compared to one-earner families?
Character is who you are when no one is looking. Image is what others see. Dr. Gene Miller, Psychologist, projects himself as a man of integrity. He's a hero to his wife and daughter and a stalwart man of faith to friends and acquaintances. But when a woman he claims not to know seriously injures him then kills herself, she leaves proof that he has secrets that could shatter the lives and faith of those he has tried to help. Lt. Arthur Bradley, a big city police officer, intends to expose Miller's lies to protect those manipulated by his charms and sucked in by his wiles. If the good doctor's cleverly crafted façade crumbles in the light of truth, all the better. For it is truth Bradley seeks and it is truth he finds. Let it be known, the truth will set you free. Juanette West has traveled and lived in many areas of the country before settling in Wilmington Delaware where she works for the State's Court System. Under His Wings is the first novel of the Collingsdale Chronicles series. Bethany for Callie Ann is coming soon. Be on the lookout for it