Education for Social Work in Eastern Europe: Changing Horizons

Politics & Social Sciences

Robert Constable

Vera Mehta

Social Sciences

Lyceum Books

School Social Work: Practice, Policy, and Research, Sixth Edition is a comprehensive guide to social work practice in schools. This edition includes new chapters on confidentiality, mental health issues, attendance, personal safety, and child welfare. Case examples and policy and practice applications support the strong emphasis on issues of diverse populations in the book. Updated chapters cover IDEA 2004, the No Child Left Behind Act, the accountability movement in education, diversity issues, and the changing economic, social, and political climate for schools in the 21st century. Specific practice applications for new or experienced social workers are covered throughout the book, but are emphasized in a special section (thirteen chapters) that covers group work, work with families, attendance, case management, working with the child welfare system, social skills training, violence reduction, crisis intervention, and peer mediation.

School Social Work: Practice, Policy, And Research

Carol Rippey Massat

Shirley McDonald

John P. Flynn

School Social Work: Practice, Policy, and Research has been a foundational guide to the profession for over 40 years. The first comprehensive introduction to the field, the book has featured the writings of the pioneers in the field while also accommodating the remarkable changes and growing complexities of the profession with each subsequent revision. The profession continues to grow in both the US and internationally, despite the ever-present concerns surrounding limited resources, budgets, and social worker to student ratios. Contemporary school social work takes place throughout the whole school and community, it takes place through policy change, and it takes place with at-risk students and their families as well as through individual and group work with students who struggle both emotionally and academically. This book reflects the many ways that school social work practice impacts academic, behavioral, and social outcomes for both youths and the broader school community. This revision features the contributions of 21 new scholars who bring their expertise in the field to this classic text. There are ten all-new chapters that reflect the current and emerging issues central to the profession, and eight extensive revisions of chapters from the previous edition. The eighth edition strengthens the book's focus on evidence informed practice, and places all content within the context of the prevailing multi-tiered model of school interventions. Features: All new chapters addressing the demands put upon entry level school social workers, Common Core standards for social emotional learning, suicide prevention, and supervision in the school setting; New focus integrated throughout on the role of policy practice in achieving change for individual students, schools, and communities; Issues of diversity and cultural competencies are threaded through each chapter; This title can be successfully used for a single freestanding course in school social work or across a multiple-course concentration on the subject.

School Social Work: Practice, Policy, and Research

Michael S. Kelly

There is no good substitute for what family can provide for the growth and development of its members. In a diverse and constantly changing world, practitioners aim to help families improve relationships between members and with their environment. This book successfully illustrates how social work practice can identify, utilize, build upon, and reinforce the unique strengths of families to help family systems become more effective and just in the face of certain challenges. The authors integrate the most recent developments in theory, technique, and research into the century-old tradition of social work practice with families and couples. Constable and Lee have developed a clear, flexible, strengths-based approach that accommodates family and individual intervention and multiple methodologies, as well as the social institutional contexts in which social workers practice. This new edition focuses on the current trends in family therapy and explores the possibilities of broadening the scope of services that social workers can provide to families and couples in all settings. Strengths of this edition: New! reflects recent clinical trial research on couple and family interventions; New! incorporates family life education, broadening the focus into newly developing areas with great potential for sustainable practice; New! includes chapter-by-chapter questions for discussion; Updated! integrates a wide range of new research and theory with practice transcultural perspective provides a bridge for working with couples and families in diverse cultures; case studies involve the reader and open the content to different interpretations of the complexity of family life; theory and practice for work with families in school social work, health care, mental health care, the judicial system, child welfare, and more.

Social Work With Families: Content and Process

Daniel B. Lee

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