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Faith-Based Initiatives and Aging Services
Gain an understanding of the increased role religious congregations now play in providing social support to the elderlyReligious congregations and faith-based organizations (FBO) from the Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions have worked on behalf of older adults for centuries. But the initiatio... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2005 -
Enhancing Primary Care of Elderly People (Garland Reference Library Of Social Science Ser. #Vol. 1142)
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1999 -
Analyzing Social Policy
From formulation to implementation, an approach to the analysis of social policy through the lens of research Analyzing Social Policy prepares professionals and students to make better informed decisions related to identifying and understanding the intricacies and potential impact of social policyma... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2011 -
Comparative Approaches to Program Planning
"As a practitioner in the field for over thirty years, I have been exposed to endless 'planning' sessions that are prescriptive to the point of being oppressive. Thistext 'gives permission' to the practitioner to allow for emergence, uncertainty, and ambiguity in the planning process. Comparative Ap... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2008 -
Social Work Macro Practice
This undergraduate textbook challenges social workers accustomed to working with individuals and families to expand their efforts at generating change at the community and organizational level. The third edition adds a final chapter on strategies for implementing a planned change intervention. Anno... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2008 -
Understanding Religious and Spiritual Aspects of Human Service Practice
Contending that despite current efforts to make social workers sensitive to differences of race, ethnicity, and gender, the diversity and impact of religious beliefs has often been overlooked, three professors of social work/human services offer a guide to direct practice concerns. Spiritual assessm... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1999 -
The Role of Gender in Practice Knowledge: Claiming Half the Human Experience (Social Psychology Reference Series #Vol. 1086)
First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1998 -
Social Work Macro Practice (Connecting Core Competencies)
This book approaches the field of social work recognising that all social workers must be able to engage, assess, and intervene with individuals, families, groups, organisations, and communities. It focuses on enabling social work practitioners to undertake whatever types of macro-level intervention... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Organization Practice
Human service organizations are under increasing pressure to demonstrate that their programs work. Organization Practice, Second Edition helps students and professionals in human services and nonprofit management understand complex behaviors in organizations. This new edition provides a new, pract... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2009