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They Still Pick Me Up When I Fall (00 Edition)
by Diana Mendley Rauner  Publisher Comments Rauner demonstrates a direct connection between caring in face-to-face interactions and caring organizations and a caring society, arguing that such a connection is central to our teaching of and expectations for youth. She also posits caring as a way to...
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Community Treatment for Youth: Evidence-Based Interventions for Severe Emotional and Behavioral Disorders (Innovations in Practice and Service Delivery with Vulnerable)
by Barbara J. Burns Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-376) and index....
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Parenting by Men Who Batter: New Directions for Assessment and Intervention
by Jeffrey L. (edt) Edleson Publisher Comments What is the best way to work with fathers who have a history of abusive behavior? This question is among the thorniest that social service and criminal justice professionals must deal with in their careers, and in this essential new work Jeffrey L...
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Working with Families of the Poor (Guilford Family Therapy)
by Patricia Minuchin Publisher Comments Now in a substantially revised second edition, this widely adopted text and practical guidebook presents the fundamentals of family-based intervention with clients struggling with chronic poverty-related crises and life stressors. Grounded in Salvador...
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Social Work and the Law (UK Edition)
by Stuart Vernon Publisher Comments The new edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to incorporate the significant amount of new legislation governing this field, including the Disability Discrimination Act 1995, Carers (Recognition and Services) Act 1995, Mental Health (Patients...
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Successful Prevention and Youth Development Programs: Across Borders
by Laura Ferrer-wreder Publisher Comments There is a widely recognized need to provide clear examples of useful prevention and youth development programs that are evidence-based and grounded in the current knowledge of life span development and cultural processes. The authors of Successful...
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Field Instruction 3RD Edition
by David Royse Synopsis A helpful book that addresses the most common questions, concerns, and problems social work students encounter in their field work. Field Instruction uses a practical question and answer format to present need-to-know information such as: preparing for...
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Evaluation in Social Work : Art and Science of Practice (07 Edition)
by Yvonne A. Unrau Publisher Comments Social work practice is built upon the linkage between the objectives and goals of clients, programs, and agencies, and the evaluation process is critical for making sure those links are strong. Building on its earlier editions with seven new chapters...
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Social Work in a Risk Society: Social and Cultural Perspectives
by Stephen A. Webb Publisher Comments This path-breaking text constructs a new way of thinking about social work based on contemporary social theory and taking into account recent changes in social work. Working in a counter-tradition that is suspicious of a number of governing ideas and...
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Understanding Generalist Practice... (06 Edition)
by Jannah Hurn Hull Publisher Comments Hull and Mather's book introduces students to the professional abilities needed when working with families. Using a generalist perspective, the book builds on the knowledge and skills students have acquired in other courses, and provides keen insight on...
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Examining Global Social Welfare Issues Using Microcase, Version II (with CD-ROM and Infotrac)
by Andrew L Cherry Publisher Comments This workbook and the accompanying MicroCase databases function as an interactive tool that provides students with a platform for exploring current social welfare issues. The text, the first MicroCase book written for social workers by a social work...
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Challenges of Living : Multidimensional Working Model for Social Workers (07 Edition)
by Elizabeth Hutchison Publisher Comments This timely text draws on interdisciplinary theory and research to examine the multidimensional risk and protective factors for eight challenges of living frequently encountered by social workers. The authors provide a working model for social workers to...
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Foundations of Evidence-based Social Work Practice (06 Edition)
by Albert R. Roberts Publisher Comments This concise introduction to evidence-based social work is a student-friendly overview of the issues and methods most frequently encountered while preparing for evidence-based social work practice.<BR>Part I defines terms and critical issues...
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The Grace Abbott Reader
by Grace Abbott Publisher Comments This reader features the most influential and insightful writings of Grace Abbott (1878–1939), a tireless and brilliant social reformer in the early twentieth century. These writings contributed to the development of social programs that...
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Relatives Raising Children: An Overview of Kinship Care
by Joseph Crumbley Publisher Comments The rapid growth of kinship care has caught many child welfare agencies off guard. Relatives Raising Children gives professionals, agencies, institutions, communities, and organizations the information they need to develop and provide service to kinship...
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Practice of Research in Social Work-with CD (05 Edition)
by Rafael J. Engel Publisher Comments The Practice of Research in Social Work introduces research methods as an integrated set of techniques for investigating the problems encountered in social work. This innovative text encourages students to connect technique and substance, to understand...
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Affecting Change : Social Workers in the Political Arena (6TH 06 Edition)
by Karen Haynes Publisher Comments An action-oriented text, the Sixth Edition of "Affecting Change" continues to provide new ideas and strategies to help students become better advocates for their future clients. <P> Updated to reflect changes in social welfare policy, this book...
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Stepfamily Relationships: Development, Dynamics, and Interventions
by Lawrence H Ganong Publisher Comments Stepfamily Relationships: Development, Dynamics, and Interventions offers what has so far been missing in the field - a comprehensive, multidisciplinary text that provides a state-of-the-art look at this important facet of family study. This volume...
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Developing Helping Skills: A Step-By-Step Approach (with DVD)
by Valerie Nash Et Al Cheng Publisher Comments Build your fundamental helping skills, and more important, the ability to transfer those skills to actual real-world situations with the unique approach found in Chang/Scott/Decker's DEVELOPING HELPING SKILLS: A STEP BY STEP APPROACH. These experienced...
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Sage Human Services Guides #69: Oral History in Social Work: Research, Assessment, and Intervention
by Ruth R Martin Synopsis 1. Valuing the Subjective Experience: Oral History as Qualitative Research / 2. Using Theoretical Perspectives for Oral History Research in Social Work and Social Work Education / 3. Making a Bridge: Moving from Social Work Practice Knowledge and Skill...
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