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  • Social Work, Social Welfare, and Social Development in Nigeria

    A Postcolonial Perspective

    by Mel Gray, Solomon Amadasun ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Social Work
    This groundbreaking book provides a comprehensive account of social work, social welfare, and social development in Nigeria from a postcolonial perspective. It examines the historical development of social work and social welfare and the colonial legacies affecting contemporary social welfare provision, development planning, social work practice, and social work education.Against this historical ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Ethics and Value Perspectives in Social Work

    by Mel Gray, Stephen A. Webb ...
    This agenda setting text explores a broad range of value perspectives and their impact on and contribution to social work thinking on ethics. Including new perspectives, such as Islam, and drawing on international contributors, this is essential reading for all social work students studying ethics and values. ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Working Ethically in Child Protection

    by Bob Lonne, Maria Harries, Brid Featherstone, Mel Gray ...
    In their day-to-day practice, social work and human services practitioners frequently find themselves in confusing ethical quandaries, trying to balance the numerous competing interests of protecting children from harm and promoting family and community capacity. This book explores the ethical issues surrounding child protection interventions and offers a process-oriented approach to ethical ... Read more

    $78.99 USD

  • Critical Supervision for the Human Services

    A Social Model to Promote Learning and Value-Based Practice

    by Lou Johnston, Carolyn Noble, Mel Gray ...
    Practitioners in the helping professions today operate in challenging settings where budgets have been cut dramatically, and progression and success are too often defined primarily by key performance indicators and strategic outcomes. Tensions arise when such pressures conflict with helping professionals' core responsibilities to provide excellent care, advocate for patients or service users and ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • Indigenous Social Work around the World

    Towards Culturally Relevant Education and Practice

    by John Coates ...
    Series series Contemporary Social Work Studies
    How can mainstream Western social work learn from and in turn help advance indigenous practice? This volume brings together prominent international scholars involved in both Western and indigenous social work across the globe - including James Midgley, Linda Briskman, Alean Al-Krenawi and John R. Graham - to discuss some of the most significant global trends and issues relating to indigenous and ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The SAGE Handbook of Social Work

    Edited by Mel Gray, James O. Midgley, Stephen A Webb ...
    This Handbook is the world′s first generic major reference work to provide an authoritative guide to the theory, method, and values of social work in one volume.Drawn from an international field of excellence, the contributors each offer a critical analysis of their individual area of expertise. The result is this invaluable resource collection that not only reflects upon the condition of social ... Read more

    $118.79 USD

  • The Handbook of Social Work and Social Development in Africa

    Edited by Mel Gray ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    All recent books on international social work mention Africa only briefly and few engage with the broader field of development studies. This book focuses solely on the unique African context engaging with issues relating to social work and development more broadly thus enabling a deeper examination and more complex and nuanced picture to emerge. Unlike most academic works, this book highlights ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Decolonizing Social Work

    Edited by Mel Gray, John Coates, Michael Yellow Bird, Tiani Hetherington ...
    Series series Contemporary Social Work Studies
    Riding on the success of Indigenous Social Work Around the World, this book provides case studies to further scholarship on decolonization, a major analytical and activist paradigm among many of the world’s Indigenous Peoples, including educators, tribal leaders, activists, scholars, politicians, and citizens at the grassroots level. Decolonization seeks to weaken the effects of colonialism and ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Social Work Theories and Methods

    Edited by Mel Gray, Stephen Webb ...
    The second edition of this celebrated book by two of the world′s leading researchers in social work introduces readers to the main theories, theorists and perspectives that contribute to the debate on social work theory and social work methods. It brings together some outstanding international researchers in social work to challenge the reader to critically question how they think about social ... Read more

    $78.29 USD

  • Evidence-based Social Work

    A Critical Stance

    by Mel Gray, Debbie Plath, Stephen Webb ...
    Evidence-based practice is now a core element of many governments’ approaches to policy-making and social intervention. It has become a powerful movement that promises to change the content and structure of social work and its allied professions. Its emergence has generated much debate and raised challenging questions, however, particularly at the interface of research, policy, and practice.This ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Environmental Social Work

    Edited by Mel Gray, John Coates, Tiani Hetherington ...
    Social work has been late to engage with the environmental movement. Often working with an exclusively social understanding of environment, much of the social work profession has overlooked the importance of environmental issues. However, recently, the impact of and worldwide attention to climate change, a string of natural disasters, and increased understanding of issues around environmental ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

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  • Conflict Resolution in the Twenty-first Century

    Principles, Methods, and Approaches

    by Jacob Bercovitch, Prof. Richard Dean Wells Jackson ...
    In the past, arbitration, direct bargaining, the use of intermediaries, and deference to international institutions were relatively successful tools for managing interstate conflict. In the face of terrorism, intrastate wars, and the multitude of other threats in the post–Cold War era, however, the conflict resolution tool kit must include preventive diplomacy, humanitarian intervention, regional ... Read more

    $24.49 USD