Social Work and Social Welfare: An Invitation (New by Marla Berg-Weger

By Marla Berg-Weger

Social paintings and Social Welfare: An Invitation is a best-selling textual content and web site for advent to social paintings classes. It presents scholars with the data, talents, and values which are crucial for operating with contributors, households, teams, agencies, groups, and public coverage in a number of perform settings.



The re-creation calls scholars to develop into engaged in a few of society’s so much not easy concerns via various case experiences and an emphasis on international matters. scholars will learn debts of real-world social paintings, reminiscent of in bankruptcy eight the place 13 social staff percentage their reviews in twelve assorted perform settings, together with healthiness and psychological overall healthiness, felony justice, institution, public overall healthiness, and rural settings. Social staff describe operating with little ones and households, immigrants and refugees, army veterans and households, older adults, folks with addictions, and people with disabilities. This variation additionally comprises new profiles of social employees and one older grownup that depict person trips, modern perform components, and challenges.?



The fourth variation of Social paintings and Social Welfare is in complete colour, with extra visuals and photographs all through. As with earlier versions, this ebook is an updated profile of the realm during which today’s social staff perform, with present demographic, statistical, legislative, coverage, and learn info; and delicate discussions of up to date moral matters. The textual content contains routines from six interactive situations, together with the hot case, Brickville. stopover at www.routledgesw.com for the precise instances and spouse fabrics that educate scholars approximately social paintings via practice.

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