Routledge Advances in Social Work
Social Welfare Programs and Social Work Education at a Crossroads: New Approaches for a Post-Pandemic Society
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By Antonio López Peláez, Annaline Keet, Chung Moon Sung
July 17, 2024
This book explores a key phenomenon that has been accelerated by the COVID-19 crisis, namely, the crossroads at which social welfare professionals find themselves. This is a crossroads where, on the one hand, there is an accelerated digitalization process and a reorganization of social programs, ...
Boys’ Stories of Their Time in a Residential School: ‘The Best Years of Our Lives’
1st Edition
By Mark Smith
May 27, 2024
This book provides rich insights into the pre and post care experiences of boys who were pupils in a residential school where the author worked over the course of the 1980s. It describes the boys’ trajectories through life, as well as detailing the rhythms, rituals, routines, and relationships that...
Revolutionary Social Work: Promoting Systemic Changes
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By Masoud Kamali
May 27, 2024
This book shows how social work can be an active agent for promoting revolutionary changes in order to counter the global neoliberal market fundamentalism which is destroying our planet and reinforcing socioeconomic inequalities, political instability, antidemocratic political ideologies and ...
Social Work and Climate Justice: International Perspectives
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By Devendraraj Madhanagopal, Bala Raju Nikku
May 27, 2024
This book argues that climate justice is an urgent and defining global challenge with long-term implications for poverty reduction, livelihoods, community well-being, and sustainable development. It provides a thorough overview of both fundamental and new directions of knowledge and policy ...
Social Work, Social Welfare, Unemployment and Vulnerability Among Youth
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By Vibeke Bak Nielsen, Petra Malin, Ilse Julkunen, Lars Uggerhøj
January 29, 2024
Social Work, Social Welfare, Unemployment and Vulnerability Among Youth critically analyses contemporary welfare state interventions on unemployment and poverty among youth in a context of societal transformation. It also considers how we can develop future knowledge and methods in evolving welfare...
The Complexities of Home in Social Work
1st Edition
By Carole Zufferey, Christopher Horsell
January 29, 2024
Home is a complex and multifaceted concept. This book revisions how ‘home’ is used in social work literature by showing how it is positioned as being discursively represented, materially experienced and embodied, and multiply imagined as symbolic and existential. Drawing on multidisciplinary ...
A New History of Social Work: Values and Practice in the Struggle for Social Justice
1st Edition
By John H. Pierson
May 31, 2023
This book provides an overview of the main developments in social work over its 200-year history. From its beginnings in the early 19th century through to the present day, it recounts the efforts to create a fairer, socially just society through its work with individuals and families. Throughout, ...
Understanding System Change in Child Protection and Welfare
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By John Canavan, Carmel Devaney, Caroline McGregor, Aileen Shaw
May 31, 2023
This book provides an account of the experience of a multifaceted system-change programme to strengthen the capacity of Ireland’s statutory child protection and welfare agency in the areas of prevention, early intervention and family support. Many jurisdictions globally are involved in system ...
The Body Politics of Glocal Social Work: Essays on the Post-Anthropocentric Condition
1st Edition
By Mona Livholts
December 30, 2022
This book shapes a situated body politics to re-think, re-write, and de-colonise social work as a post-anthropocentric discipline headed towards glocalisation, where human and non-human embodiments and agencies are entangled in glocal environmental worlds. It critically and creatively examines how ...
Using Art for Social Transformation: International Perspective for Social Workers, Community Workers and Art Therapists
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By Eltje Bos, Ephrat Huss
December 16, 2022
Social arts are manifold and are initiated by multiple actors, spaces, and direction from many directions and intentions, but generally they aim to generate personal, familial, group, community or general social transformation which can maintain and enhance personal and community resilience, ...
Social Work and Human Services Responsibilities in a Time of Climate Change: Country, Community and Complexity
1st Edition
By Amanda Howard, Margot Rawsthorne, Pam Joseph, Mareese Terare, Dara Sampson, Meaghan Katrak Harris
November 15, 2022
This book provides an accessible, research-informed text for students, social workers and other social service workers and community development workers focused on practically linking climate change to social justice. The book is designed for: Those who want to embed an understanding of climate ...
Assessing Culturally Informed Parenting in Social Work
1st Edition
By Davis Kiima
September 26, 2022
This book explores how social workers incorporate issues of culture when evaluating the parenting competence of Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic (BAME) parents and highlights the gap in how social workers assess safe parenting in BAME families. Drawing on a study that combined a phenomenological ...