Routledge Advances in Social Work
Understanding System Change in Child Protection and Welfare
1st Edition
Edited
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 B. 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
1st Edition
Edited
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 ...
Social Work, Young Migrants and the Act of Listening: Becoming an Unaccompanied Child
1st Edition
By Marcus Herz, Philip Lalander
August 29, 2022
This book is about 20 young unaccompanied refugees who have sought refuge in Europe and how they experience and try to navigate their new situations, including their contacts with social workers, friends and family members left behind. The book contains stories of powerlessness and frustration from...
Post-Anthropocentric Social Work: Critical Posthuman and New Materialist Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Vivienne Bozalek, Bob Pease
August 01, 2022
This book seeks to trouble taken-for-granted assumptions of anthropocentrism and humanism in social work - those which perpetuate human privilege and human exceptionalism. The edited collection provides a different imaginary for social work by introducing ways of thinking otherwise that ...
Rights-Based Community Practice and Academic Activism in a Turbulent World: Putting Theory into Practice in Israel, Palestine and Jordan
1st Edition
By Jim Torczyner
August 01, 2022
Drawing on a theoretical model of coexistence premised on universality, reciprocity and inclusion, this book focusses on the development of academic social work programs and cross-border partnerships to promote social justice and peace in Israel, Palestine, and Jordan. Using the model of ...
Critical Hospital Social Work Practice
1st Edition
By Daniel Burrows
June 13, 2022
Critical Hospital Social Work Practice sheds light on the fast-paced, high pressure role of the hospital social worker. At a time of public concern over the state of the NHS and the needs of a growing older population, the hospital social worker’s job is more important than ever. Yet, it is poorly ...
Challenges, Opportunities and Innovations in Social Work Field Education
1st Edition
Edited
By Ronnie Egan, Nicole Hill, Wendy Rollins
May 30, 2022
This book collates and analyses the current research, debates, opportunities and practices in social work field education into one volume and contextualises this material within the broader context of social work. Current concerns about risk and uncertainty in field education are explored from ...
The Challenge of Right-wing Nationalist Populism for Social Work: A Human Rights Approach
1st Edition
Edited
By Carolyn Noble, Goetz Ottmann
May 06, 2022
Right-wing nationalist populism poses direct attacks on social tolerance, human rights discourse, political debates, the survival of the welfare state and its universal services, impacting on the roles of social work. This book demonstrates how right-wing nationalist populism can and must be ...
Reforming Child Welfare in the Post-Soviet Space: Institutional Change in Russia
1st Edition
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By Meri Kulmala, Maija Jäppinen, Anna Tarasenko, Anna Pivovarova
April 29, 2022
This book provides new and empirically grounded research-based knowledge and insights into the current transformation of the Russian child welfare system. It focuses on the major shift in Russia’s child welfare policy: deinstitutionalisation of the system of children’s homes inherited from the ...