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Social Work and African-centred Worldviews
One of the consistent features of social work education has been the dearth of social work texts, which consider and address diverse worldviews and social philosophies as a theoretical base for models of social work practice. This book explores the socio-cultural perspectives that emerge from black communities as interpretative frameworks to explain and resolve social problems. The book is at the cutting edge of exploring new paradigms for social work and human services and is essential reading for human service professionals, educators and students in social work, social policy, black studies, youth and community work and sociology.
Social Work and HIV/AIDS
HIV has provided a challenge not only to patients and their close contacts but to those caring for them. This book is based on the long experience of two social workers, both family therapists, who have worked together at the Royal Free Hospital and share the belief that practice has to have a sound theoretical basis. It gives an overview of the HIV epidemic and social work contribution to date, provides information about treatments and examines some of the dilemmas these new developments pose for patients, doctors and social workers.
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Social Work as a Profession: A Comparative Cross-national Perspective
This volume is a pioneering study, offering a systematic global comparison of the professional features of social work. Intended for students, researchers, teachers and social work practitioners with an interest in the professional characteristics of social work and the sociology of the professions, it provides a broadly-based examination of trends in social work in diverse social and political contexts. The book takes a cross-national comparative perspective and includes in-depth analyses of the social work profession by national experts in ten countries with very different histories and practice settings: Chile, Germany, Hungary, India, Mexico, South Africa, Spain, the United Kingdom and...
Social Work In Europe: Educating for Change
Social work is a diverse and contested activity in which national traditions and cultural factors affect its form and its adaptation to changing political and socio-economic conditions. However, the education and research which underpin this professional field are increasingly open to influences from outside local and national boundaries. Social Work in Europe takes a thematic approach to an analysis of such external influences – and the learning derived from comparative study – specifically as experienced in the European region.