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Self-Directed Groupwork : Users Take Action for Empowerment
Audrey Mullender
Paperback - $65.95
No Text This standard text has stood the test of time, and is still in demand, 15 years after its first publication. It shows what works to help people identify what is wrong in their lives and how they can bring about change. Social and community wo ...
Justice at the City Gate : Social Policy, Social Services, and the Law
Susan G. Neisuler
Paperback - $43.95
A third of America's children grow up in poverty. Social service workers intervene in family crises to help repair emotional damage, but often exacerbate that damage. Why does poverty continue to be a plague in twenty-first-century America? Why do so ...
Building Community : Social Science in Action
Philip Nyden
Paperback - $138.95
This is a genuine innovation, because it is the ONLY text available which demonstrates how social science theory/research can be APPLIED to successful collaborative work with community groups. "Sustainable Communities on an Aging Planet is a course I ...
Early Intervention Practices Around the World
Samuel L. Odom
Hardcover - $73.95
This book describes early intervention practices that have emerged in countries around the world. It focuses on identifying effective practices that are working particularly well in a given country. By sharing perspectives on early intervention pract ...
Understanding Race, Ethnicity and Power : The Key to Efficacy in Clinical Practice
Elaine Pinderhughes
Hardcover - $62.95
While practitioners in the social services and mental health professions work with people from a variety of ethnic, racial, social, and economic backgrounds, they often do not understand or feel comfortable with those whose cultural backgrounds are d ...
An Introduction to Human Services : Values, Methods, and Populations Served
Cynthia Cannon Poindexter
Paperback - $170.95
Become an effective helper with AN INTRODUCTION TO HUMAN SERVICES: VALUES, METHODS, AND POPULATIONS SERVED! A ?must read? for human services workers, students, and volunteers, this concise guide introduces you to the necessary basic skills needed to ...
Fixing the Families : Parents, Power, and the Child Welfare System
Jennifer A. Reich
Paperback - $77.95
The ways children's rights are handled by the state remain a highly controversial and frequently criticized topic of national interest, yet little is known about the actual operations of the Child Welfare System. In "Fixing Families," Jennifer Reich ...
Hearts and Hands : Creating Community in Violent Times
Luis Rodriguez
Paperback - $32.95
A longtime peacemaker with gangs in Los Angeles and Chicago, Luis J. Rodriguez prescribes healing through community building. He warns against further marginalization of people already on the edge of society, and points the way to nonviolent opportun ...
Creating Small Scale Social Programs
Barbara Schram
Paperback - $121.95
Built around a single case study, Creating New Agency Programs clearly illustrates how to effectively plan, implement, and evaluate a small scale social program. Each step in the planning process is introduced and described in a way that allows the r ...
In Plain Sight : The Story of Task
Lee Seglem
Paperback - $30.95
'Trenton is where I learned about hunger, where it became personal for me, where it shed a thick hide of abstraction and touched my life, if only from the outside looking in. It is also where I learned something else: that the kindness of strangers c ...