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Social Work and Disasters
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 361

Social Work and Disasters

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-01-11
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Disasters are increasing in frequency and intensity across the world, causing significant destruction to individuals and communities. Yet many social workers are ill-prepared for the demands of this field of practice. This book discusses the role of social workers in disaster work, including in disaster-preparedness, during the disaster and in post-disaster practice. It addresses the complexities of social work disaster practice, noting the need for social workers to understand the language of trauma and to respond effectively. The authors discuss disaster theory and practice, drawing out elements of practice at macro-, meso- and micro-levels and at various stages of the disaster. They exami...

Rebuilding Lives Post-disaster
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 281

Rebuilding Lives Post-disaster

Social workers are increasingly engaged in supporting individuals and communities in long-term disaster recovery. Rebuilding Lives Post-Disaster brings together an international team of social work researchers who have investigated the experiences, perspectives, challenges, and complexities in disaster recovery. It features country case studies drawing from field research undertaken in disaster-affected communities in Canada, the United States, Australia, India, Pakistan, Taiwan, Sri Lanka, and China. In so doing, the volume provides a comprehensive perspective on the realities of disaster recovery and explores key concepts such as resilience, community-based disaster risk reduction, and social and gendered construction of vulnerability and capabilities. Undergraduate and graduate students and professionals in the fields of social work, community development, international social work, emergency management, and related fields will find the text to be a helpful resource.

Disaster Recovery
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 454

Disaster Recovery

Now in its third edition, Disaster Recovery continues to serve as the most comprehensive book of its kind and will span the core areas that recovery managers and voluntary organizations must tackle after a disaster. It remains the go-to textbook for how to address and work through housing, donations, volunteer management, environmental recovery, historic and cultural resources, psychological needs, infrastructure and lifelines, economic recovery, public sector recovery, and much more. Special features include instructor’s manual, PowerPoints, a free consultation with the authors upon adoption of the text; updated discussion questions; references and recommended readings; and updated resour...

Ecological Social Work
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 238

Ecological Social Work

The world is on the brink of ecological crisis. In the last decade we have seen a number of catastrophic events that illustrate this, including the 2004 tsunami across the Pacific, which killed over 150,000 people, and Hurricane Katrina in the United States, which left thousands dead and millions displaced. As the frequency and scale of environmental disasters has increased, social workers have found themselves on the front line of crisis interventions, working to ensure that the basic needs of communities are met. This evocative, highly thought-provoking book encourages social workers to incorporate an awareness of the physical environment into their work with individuals, groups and commun...

Resettlement with People First
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 244

Resettlement with People First

Should people in the way lose out as new reservoirs, mines, plantations, or superhighways displace them from their homes and livelihoods? What if the process of resettlement were made accountable to those impacted, empowering them to achieve just outcomes and to share in the benefits of development projects? This book seeks to answer these questions, putting forward powerful counterfactual case studies to assess what problems real-world development projects would likely have avoided if the project had included the affected people in decision making about whether and how they should resettle. Drawing on contributions from leading and emerging scholars from around the world, this book consider...

The Routledge International Handbook of Social Work and Disaster Practice
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 790

The Routledge International Handbook of Social Work and Disaster Practice

This handbook addresses the diversity and complexity of social work practice in the context of disasters. Drawing on international perspectives, with the inclusion of case studies, this handbook provides a resource for students, practitioners, educators, and researchers seeking to prepare the social work profession for contemporary challenges associated with disasters. Divided into five parts, it explores the following subject areas: 1. Conceptual aspects concerning social work’s relationship with disasters 2. Social work’s role in preventing and preparing for disasters, and response and recovery 3. Social work practice with specific populations 4. Social work education and training in d...

Serviço social nos países de língua portuguesa
  • Language: pt-BR
  • Pages: 284

Serviço social nos países de língua portuguesa

Esta obra reuniu vinte e sete autores, são professores/as e pesquisadores/as de Serviço Social e de Políticas Públicas e Sociais que descrevem suas investigações, experiências e narrativas sobre os desafios e as perspectivas do Serviço Social nos seus países. São oito países da comunidade dos países de língua portuguesa. Os artigos são dos mais diversificados temas e áreas do conhecimento, prioritariamente do serviço social e representam a riqueza e a interculturalidade dos povos que falam português no mundo.

Community Disaster Vulnerability
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 177

Community Disaster Vulnerability

Disaster vulnerability is rapidly increasing on a global scale, particularly for those populations which are the historical clients of the social work profession. These populations include the very young and very old, the poor, ethnic and racial minorities, and those with physical or mental disabilities. Social workers are increasingly providing services in disasters during response and recovery periods, and are using community interventions to reduce disaster vulnerability. There is a need for a cogent theory of vulnerability and research that addresses improved community disaster practice and community resilience. Community Disaster Vulnerability and Resilience provides a unifying theoretical framework backed by research which can be translated into knowledge for effective practice in disasters. ​

Social Work
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 342

Social Work

A comprehensive yet concise text that provides a broad overview of the main fields of practice in social work.

Ökologisch-kritische Soziale Arbeit
  • Language: de
  • Pages: 190

Ökologisch-kritische Soziale Arbeit

Social and ecological – a twofold mission for sustainable social work. But how are social justice and environmental justice related? To answer this question means to link social and ecological problems and to critically reflect on the interdependencies between social work action and the natural environment. The author not only delineates historical roots regarding ecology and the environment in social work, he also illustrates current positions and developments of the international debate on an emerging ecosocial work.