Policy Practice for Social Workers

• Author : Linda K. Cummins,Katharine V. Byers,Laura E. Pedrick
• Publisher : Prentice Hall
• Release : 25 March 2023

Introduction to Policy Practice teaches students how to actively influence policy-making through lobying, coalition building and running campaigns and how to master social problem analysis and policy analysis. The text uses theoretical and empirical knowledge and the application of policy practice techniques.

• Author : Karen Morgaine,Moshoula Capous-Desyllas
• Publisher : SAGE Publications
• Release : 01 July 2014

Anti-Oppressive Social Work Practice is the first text to fully integrate concepts of anti-oppressive practice with generalist practice course content. This comprehensive approach introduces concepts of social justice and offers detailed insight into how those principles intersect with the practice of social work at the micro, mezzo, and macro levels. The book covers ethics, values, and social work theory, and discusses the fundamentals of working with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities. The book also highlights policy and social movement

• Author : Christina L. Erickson
• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• Release : 30 May 2018

Environmental Justice as Social Work Practice places the natural environment as central to practice. Utilizing the Phases of Practice and micro to macro levels of practice, the book integrates neatly into a college semester course. Chapters cover important components of social work such as theory, ethics, conceptual foundations as well as distinct chapters on micro, mezzo, and macro practice. Each chapter expands the discipline's commitment to and applied efforts in the environmental movement while recognizing the unique contributions social work

• Author : Steve Burghardt
• Publisher : SAGE Publications
• Release : 18 October 2013

Macro Practice in Social Work for the 21st Century, Second Edition offers a modern approach to building effective career skills in macro practice. Author Steve Burghardt inspires students by tracing the careers of macro-practitioners from grass roots organizers to agency executives. By focusing on how practitioners can make meaningful, strategic choices regardless of their formal roles and responsibilities, this Second Edition takes a refreshing new approach on the key issues of how to respond to diversity and oppression, the use

• Author : James G. Daley
• Publisher : Psychology Press
• Release : 25 March 1999

Provides military social workers, military scholars, and civilian social workers with an overview of diverse practice settings as well as the history and future of military social work practice to give readers an understanding of the military persona as an ethnic identity. Offers in-depth coverage of issues such as family violence, substance abuse, combat settings, and managed care's impact on the military. Daley teaches social work at Southwest Missouri State University. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

• Author : Carolyn J. Tice,Dennis D. Long,Lisa E. Cox
• Publisher : SAGE Publications
• Release : 07 August 2019

Empower your students to become advocates for change. Macro Social Work Practice: Advocacy in Action shows students studying in macro social work practice how to enact change at the organizational, community, societal, and global levels. An emphasis is placed on engaging in macro practice using the tenets of the award-winning author team’s Advocacy Policy and Practice Model (APPM) that highlight the inclusion of economic and social justice, supportive environment, human needs and rights, and political access. Beginning with a

• Author : Cynthia D. Moniz,Stephen H. Gorin
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 10 January 2014

In Health Care Policy and Practice: A Biopsychosocial Perspective, Moniz and Gorin have updated their text to incorporate health care reform. The authors have also restructured the book to guide students through the development of the American health care system: what it is, what the policies are, and how students can influence them. The first section focuses on recent history and reforms during the Obama Administration to describe the health care system; section two examines the system’s structure and

• Author : Rosemary Chapin
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 05 March 2014

For use as a text in foundations generalist social policy courses, either at the baccalaureate or master’s level, this book examines the process of defining need, analyzing social policy, and developing new policy. A clear philosophical base and a common theoretical framework underlie the discussion of each component of the policy process. Four themes are interwoven throughout the book: the importance of thinking critically about social policy, the benefits of using the strengths perspective in policy analysis and development,

• Author : Rosemary Kennedy Chapin,Melinda Lewis
• Publisher : Taylor & Francis
• Release : 31 March 2023

Social Policy for Effective Practice: A Strengths Approach sharpens students' awareness of social welfare policy and offers a considerable array of resources and knowledge foundations to both understand and thrive within a continually evolving policy landscape. Throughout the text, the authors tell the stories of social workers who impact policy, incorporate frameworks for policy analysis, center social work values and strengths principles, and integrate the series' interactive and downloadable cases to demonstrate policy's relevance and application to practice settings and

• Author : James Midgley,Michelle Livermore
• Publisher : SAGE
• Release : 08 July 2008

The Handbook of Social Policy is an attempt to document the now substantial body of knowledge about government social policies that has been accumulated since the study of social policy first emerged as an organized field of academic endeavor about 50 years ago. The Second Edition offers a more streamlined format to make the book more consistent with the way most instructors teach their courses. This text is a comprehensive yet accessible introduction to a vast field of endeavor that has,

• Author : Richard Hoefer
• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• Release : 25 March 2023

Current economic and social forces are creating a society with less equality, justice and opportunity for all but the privileged few. Social workers are called upon by their code of ethics to counteract these trends and actively work to achieve social justice. Hoefer's empirically-based, step-by-step approach demonstrates how to integrate advocacy for social justice into everyday social work practice. The book shows through anecdotes, case studies, examples, and the author's own personal experiences, exactly how advocacy can be conducted with

• Author : Charles H. Zastrow,Sarah L. Hessenauer
• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• Release : 30 December 2020

Charles Zastrow - a leader in the field for over forty years - combines the key components of traditional and contemporary approaches to teaching social work practice into one comprehensive volume in the twelfth edition of this classic text. Generalist Social Work Practice presents the knowledge, values, and skills needed for entry-level social work practice with individuals, groups, families, organizations, and communities. The text describes a variety of approaches to social work practice including assessment, intervention, and evaluation. A large

• Author : Jerome H. Schiele
• Publisher : SAGE Publications
• Release : 25 March 2023

This book examines the conceptual, historical and practical implications that various social policies in the United States have had on ethnic minorities.

• Author : Janna C. Heyman,Elaine P. Congress, DSW
• Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
• Release : 28 February 2018

This new text illuminates the essential information about health and social work critical to understanding today’s complex health care systems and policies. Chapters highlight current practice, policy, and research in different settings and with special populations. Readers learn how to advocate for the individuals, families, and communities they serve to help improve health and well-being for all. All those interested in micro, mezzo, and macro practices in a healthcare setting will appreciate this rich resource. Highlights include: Each chapter

• Author : Suresh Murugan
• Publisher : Social work department, PSGCAS
• Release : 01 December 2013

ABOUT PROJECT MSW : CONVERSION OF SOCIAL WORK STUDY MATERIALS (IN PAPER) INTO SOFT COPIES, ELIMINATING THE DIFFUCILTIES IN GETTING STUDY MATERIALS.