Author: Amy Batchelor Paperback: 191 pages Publisher: Columbia University Press, New York Language: English ISBN: 9780231193276 Review author: Ian Harris Batchelor presents a concise and approachable introduction to statistics relevant […]
Book Review
Handbook of Social Work with Refugee Children and Families
Information Type: Book ReviewTopic: Children, MigrationOriginal Title: Handbuch Soziale Arbeit mit geflüchteten Kindern und Familien Luise Hartwig, Gerald Mennen and Christian Schrapper (eds) Published by: BELTZ Juventa, 2018, 782 pages ISBN: 978-3-7799-3133-1 Review author: David […]
The School Services Sourcebook
Information Type: Book ReviewTopic: Social WorkThe School Services Sourcebook is a comprehensive resource that covers the most important ant timely information needed for school based practices. It is a unique resource of this kind available […]
Environmental Social Work
Information Type: Book ReviewTopic: Social WorkSocial work has been ‘defined’ as a profession of many faces; an art and a science, whose knowledge base is eclectic. The increasing incidence of human and natural disasters, have […]
Social and Caring Professions in European Welfare States
Information Type: Book ReviewTopic: Social WorkThis is a book edited by 3 colleagues from the Department of Social Work at Umeå University, a city in the North of Sweden and although some of the contributors […]
Social Change And Social Work: The changing societal conditions of social work in time and place
Information Type: Book ReviewTopic: Social WorkThis work, described as a ‘jubilee anthology’, is written by a group of contributors united through their commitment to scholarship and their research network connection with Mirja Satka, Professor of […]
Familia- Escuela –Comunidad
Information Type: Book ReviewTopic: Social WorkThere is a current consensus that considers education a process in which personal, familial, and socio-cultural variables converge. For that reason, contextual factors have been considered relevant constituent elements of […]
Breaking The Poverty Cycle
Information Type: Book ReviewTopic: Social WorkBreaking The Poverty Cycle uses an agent-oriented approach toward development in addressing barriers toward positive individual and community development. The authors use examples from the Mexican NGO Mexican Institute of […]
Social Welfare in East Asia and the Pacific
Information Type: Book ReviewTopic: Social WorkSocial Welfare in East Asia and the Pacific is an excellent general work on social welfare and social work in selected countries in East Asia and the Pacific. It fills […]
Eradicating Female Genital Mutilation: A UK Perspective
Information Type: Book ReviewTopic: Social WorkFemale Genital Mutilation (FGM) is an internationally known form of abuse of female children and young people. In addition to the pain when carried out, it comes with considerable health […]
Social Work with Sex Offenders: Making a difference
Information Type: Book ReviewTopic: Social WorkIntroduction This is definitely a worthwhile book for qualified social workers and students interested in any practice related to sexual offending, whether it is engaging with families where sexual abuse/violence […]
U.S. Public Policy in an International Context
Information Type: Book ReviewTopic: LawRefreshing, straightforward, and easy to understand, Volker Krause and Zachary Smith capture the essence of policy comparison in their book, U.S. Public Policy in an International Context. Dr. Krause and […]
Professional Social Work in East Africa: Towards Social Development, Poverty Reduction and Gender Equality
Information Type: Book ReviewTopic: Social WorkThe profession of social work in Africa has had a unique and diverse history, which continues today. From clan and kinship networks of pre-colonial Africa, to the introduction of colonial […]
Green Social Work – From Environmental Crises to Environmental Justice.
Information Type: Book ReviewTopic: Social WorkThis book is a timely and inspiring publication. It shows that the social and the ecological question are no separable discourses and it tries to re-define the role of social […]