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For decades, teachers and practitioners have turned to Frederic G. Reamer's Social Work Values and Ethics as the leading introduction to ethical decision making, dilemmas, and professional conduct in practice. A case-driven, concise, and comprehensive textbook for undergraduate and graduate social work programs, this book surveys the most critical issues for social work practitioners. The fifth edition incorporates significant updates to the National...
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Should a therapist disclose personal information to a client, accept a client's gift, or provide a former client with a job? Is it appropriate to exchange email or text messages with clients or correspond with them on social networking websites? Some acts, such as initiating a sexual relationship with a client, are clearly prohibited, yet what about more subtle interactions, such as hugging or accepting invitations to a social event or joining a client's...
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What if people, even longtime enemies, could transform conflicts into creative dilemmas they feel motivated to solve together in an atmosphere that builds connection and trust? What if employees could leave a meeting empowered and with a joint sense of purpose? What if the positive changes community activists are working so hard to see in the world could have a lasting impact?
The traditional ways we make decisions are flawed. Majority rule, top-down...
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A pantheon of heroes and heroines can be found in the history of the American human services moment. These individuals dedicated their lives to help and care for their fellow human beings. However, rarely in this group is there an equal partnership of a husband and wife - a couple working lovingly together, sharing ideas, responsibilities, and efforts for the benefit of mankind. But there is at least one such partnership. It existed in the union of...
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Clifford Beers would not be a man of business and commerce that, as a turn of the century Yale graduate, he once imagined himself. Instead he would become a crusader for the muted patients shut away in public and private institutions with names like Hospital for the Insane, Asylum for Feeble-Minded, Village for Epileptics, The School for Idiots and Feeble-Minded Youth, the State Lunatic Asylum, The Insane Pavilion; names that make us cringe today....
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The public service in South Africa faces an enormous challenge in improving service delivery not only to meet the citizens expectations but to ensure quality life for the nation. The urgent need exists to establish what went wrong and how can the situation be turned around. The book established the root causes and the link between two key challenges identified by the government; management weaknesses and the absence of a strong performance culture....
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The winner of the 2011 Grace Irwin Award for Best Christian Book of the Year. In the follow-up to his best-seller Bent Hope: A Street Journal, Tim Huff invites readers to join him on a soulful journey into a variety of worlds that most people would describe as painful, awkward, peculiar and sometimes even ugly; the very places where celebration happens least, but matters most. Dancing with Dynamite explores the unlikely triumph of the human condition...
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This book explores the history of child abuse in America. It also gives the reader insight into what occurs in a child protection agency. It also offers a brief history of abuse and neglect among children and gives insight into the agency that is responsible for protecting children. This book was written to inspire someone to contact CPS when they suspect a child is being abused or neglected, incite rage in someone so that the person contacts the...
9) Toward Greater Impact: A Path to Reduce Social Problems, Improve Lives, and Strengthen Communities
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Many major social problems, poverty, low education levels, crime, and a host of health issues, including alcohol and substance use disorders, are frequently interrelated and often reinforce and compound each other. Yet, in the U.S. we tend to treat those problems individually in isolation from the others. The public sector often does this through large bureaucratic silos, while the not-for-profit sector, a large part of which focuses on alleviating...
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Uniquely wide-ranging in its coverage of key concepts, themes and issues relating to human growth and development in adults, this textbook explores the crucial challenges and transitions that adults negotiate in their lives. It examines key topics and issues within professional practice with adults and their families, covering a wide range of practice areas and fusing essential theory and research with practical application. Drawing on insights...
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The MultiDentity Mindset introduces you to a complete set of specific skills and personal qualities needed to operate successfully in this new environment. Successful businesses and thriving communities will be looking for this mindset. The MultiDentity Mindset describes the kind of person it will take to successfully deal with the interplay of numerous values, ideologies, and identity groups that hold differing agendas, social goals, and degrees...
12) Human Growth and Development in Children and Young People: Theoretical and Practice Perspectives
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Unparalleled in its coverage of concepts and themes, this textbook uses insights from across sociology, psychology, criminology and other areas of expertise to show how children and young people negotiate crucial challenges and transitions in their lives. It considers a wide range of theories, issues and practice dimensions and clearly shows how they connect, with fresh insights on topics including mental health, bereavement and disability in children....
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Inclusive design is the practice of making a product, service, or environment optimized for inclusion. Almost any system that has people as its end-user can benefit from inclusive design.
Our Exclusive Society: Pathways Toward Inclusion by Design takes a look at many exclusive areas of modern society and the leaders that are inclusifying them. In this book, you'll read amazing stories from people like:
• Dr. Lauren Bricker, a leading woman in...
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La Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali propicia la formación de docentes con la propuesta pedagógica del Aprendizaje Servicio, AS, a través de talleres y seminarios, lográndose su implementación en algunas asignaturas. Lo que se busca con el documento Aprendizaje Servicio: guía práctica para su implementación, es ofrecer a los docentes interesados en la temática, una guía que facilite la comprensión de sus fundamentos básicos y algunas...
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Ute Craemer movingly describes her social work amongst the poorest of the poor in the favelas of Brazil, using "Waldorf" educational methods and the anthroposophical world view. Written as a diary, it details the hardships and the emotional ups and downs with her journey.
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In I Can't Swim But I Haven't Drowned Yet, Melissa Marshall chronicles the history of the disability rights movement though her lifetime of disability rights activism. Follow her through high school where she is denied an education at the same time that equal education for disabled people became federal law; onto college, where she was among the first, if not the first person to major in disability studies; then to law school where she, again, struggled...
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Field education is social work's signature pedagogy, the essential preparation for professional practice. Its success depends on field educators-field instructors, task supervisors or preceptors, and faculty field liaisons-to guide and assess student learning and maintain the pedagogical integrity of the field experience. Despite its importance and complexity, few resources exist for orienting and preparing field educators.
This anthology presents...
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Service providers are increasingly called upon to serve clients at home, a setting even a seasoned professional can find difficult to negotiate. From monitoring the health of older populations to managing paroled offenders, preventing child abuse, and reunifying families, home-based services require models that ensure positive outcomes and address the ethical dilemmas that might arise in such sensitive contexts. The contributors to this volume are...
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The United States does not have enough doctors. Every year since the 1950s, internationally trained and osteopathic medical graduates have been needed to fill residency positions because there are too few American-trained MDs. However, these international and osteopathic graduates have to significantly outperform their American MD counterparts to have the same likelihood of getting a residency position. And when they do, they often end up in lower-prestige...
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This look into the transformation of the Swedish welfare state in the 20th century through changes in the structure and content of Swedish educational broadcasting provides new insights into how media education fostered political and social change and reflected the changes of government policies as well as the fundamental cultural transformation of the Swedish society. The political authorities formulated general ambitions for broadcast media's role...
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