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"Emmy Award-winning ABC News chief national correspondent and Nightline coanchor Byron Pitts shares the heartbreaking and inspiring stories of six young people who overcame impossible circumstances with extraordinary perseverance. Abuse. Bullying. War. Drug Addiction. Mental Illness. Violence. None of these should be realities for anyone, much less a young person. But for some it is the only reality they have ever known. In these dark circumstances,...
3) Ethics
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The past few years have seen a renewed interest in the subject of social work ethics. In this short form book, part of the Critical and Radical Debates in Social Work series, Sarah Banks argues that this can be seen as reflecting two very different agendas. On the one hand, it is part of a progressive movement which offers a critique of New Public Management (NPM), or managerialist, approaches through emphasising the role of social workers as active...
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Objets de répression ou de compassion, les jeunes de la rue sont méconnus et leur présence soulève habituellement beaucoup d'interrogations et d'inconfort. Certains voient dans ce phénomène l'expression bricolée d'un rite de passage moderne ou d'une émancipation sociale, d'autres en condamnent les conditions aliénantes ou tentent de le nier.
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Social work students need to be able to link theory to their practice on placement. The need to support students in this area often causes anxiety for practice educators and placement supervisors. The first edition of this book was used widely by practice educators in supporting student learning in relation to theory and practice. It was so popular that many students started to use the book themselves - in response we published another book written...
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Comment l'autorité se manifeste-t-elle dans les pratiques de gestion de l'intervention sociale faisant l'objet de transformations autant au Québec qu'en Europe? Cet ouvrage invite d'abord le lecteur à considérer les définitions de l'autorité, son histoire et ses figures de façon à en comprendre les enjeux et les processus structurant les relations de pouvoir en milieu professionnel. Les effets psychosociologiques des rapports d'autorité sur...
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After suffering the early loss of her father and subsequent family upheaval, she gravitated toward a life of helping others. From small Maine towns to the plains of Colorado, from San Diego to Northern California, for forty-two years she worked with a variety of people. Linda Converse has worked with adoptive parents, military families, dialysis patients, parents of children with various disabilities and clients with mental health problems.
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Commentators have long debated 'the moral' in ideas about moral panic, moral regulation and moral discourse. This byte teases out some of the fundamental moral questions that continue to perplex us, about life and death, good and evil, and sex and the body. With an appraisal of the work of one of the chief architects of moral panic ideas, Jock Young, it asks whether these ideas may help or hinder our understanding of these complex issues.
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Neoliberalism and austerity have led to a growing inequality gap and increasing levels of poverty and social harm. In this short form book, part of the Critical and Radical Debates in Social Work series, Chris Jones and Tony Novak look at consequences of poverty and inequality and the challenge they pose to the engaged social work academic and practitioner. There are many studies of poverty that look at competing definitions (and some of the consequences)...
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Les homicides familiaux inquiètent, pour ne pas dire horrifient la population. Pour les intervenants, tant des milieux de la justice que de la santé mentale, il s'agit d'un défi de taille. Des cliniciens et chercheurs du Québec et de la France démystifient les différents types d'homicides commis au sein de la famille.
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Ce livre met au jour les logiques d'actions qui guident les professionnels de la protection de l'enfance dans leur prise de décisions. À partir de l'analyse des discours d'employés d'un centre jeunesse, l'auteure en dégage trois types (logiques collaborative, délibérative et légaliste) et montre les dimensions qui les appuient, soit le rapport au mandat de protection, le rapport à la situation et le rapport au risque. L'ouvrage vise avant...
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Le présent ouvrage permettra de mieux comprendre les fonctions de l'intervenant de groupe, les connaissances nécessaires à ce mode d'intervention et les qualités que celui-ci requiert. L'auteure y propose une synthèse de 34 grilles d'habiletés qui permettront, en fonction de la formation, de l'expérience, du contexte organisationnel, des facteurs d'ordre personnel et de la nature de l'intervention, de reconnaître ce qui favorise la mise en...
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L'auteure propose huit clés pour agir auprès des jeunes suicidaires: la gestion des émotions, la perception de soi, la relation au corps, la vision et la résolution des problèmes, les relations interpersonnelles, le rapport à la société et la perception de celle-ci, la relation aux objets, la dimension spirituelle.
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Análisis del sector agrícola en México a partir de tres ejes: el económico, que ahonda en aspectos como la competitividad regional, el PIB, la balanza comercial, la inversión, el crédito, la concentración de la propiedad y la heterogénea estructura de la producción, el del trabajo, que pone al descubierto la drástica reducción de la población ocupada y el fortalecimiento de las relaciones capitalistas en el sector, además del deterioro...
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Kirwin Maclean Associates is delighted to be launching a new series of books. Social Work Pocket Guides are an entirely new concept in social work. They are designed to help busy practitioners to get to the bottom of the What? Why? and How? of the chosen subject. The first Pocket Guide is available to buy now. The Social Work Pocket Guide to Reflective Practice summarises theory and research in an accessible way and offers practical suggestions for...
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Jane Addams is one of those amazing individuals who see a need and meet it. She brought strength, comfort, and a meaningful life to thousands of people. She acted to develop a structure of civic justice. She became the first American woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. The press called her Saint Jane, and to the people she served, that title must have seemed appropriate. Born in 1860, her life began in a time of upheaval. Between the Civil War...
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Instead of writing a book that would bore you after the first or second chapter, I decided to make it brief. This book will discuss why I chose Social work as my profession and it will describe the benefits of being a Social Worker. As a Social worker, having morals and ethics plays a huge role. Although professionalism is always encouraged, there is an emphasis on Self-care in which we, as Social workers should Master, especially if we plan on working...
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Reflective practice is a fundamental aspect of social work. It is now more than 40 years since the publication of the groundbreaking text 'The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action' by Donald A. Schön, and yet much of the teaching around reflective practice and the way that we see it has not moved on. Accelerated by the Covid 19 pandemic, social work has experienced rapid change, and we urgently need to consider reflective social...
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Jamarr's Promise is the shocking personal memoir of social worker Kristin I. Morris' fight to protect a nine-year-old child, Jamarr Cruz, that ended in his tragic murder and New Jersey's Division of Youth and Family Services (DYFS)'s denial of its responsibility in the case. As a caseworker for DYFS, Kristin helped many children and families; it was her life's passion. Nine-year-old Jamarr was living with his grandparents after his mother's boyfriend,...
20) Mental Health
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Mental health social work is at an impasse. On the one hand, the emphasis in recent policy documents on the social roots of much mental distress ,and in the recovery approaches popular with service users seems to indicate an important role for a holistic social work practice. On the other hand, social workers have often been excluded from these initiatives and the dominant approach within mental health continues to be a medical one, albeit supplemented...
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