Product Description: The first textbook to emphasize the importance of critical thinking skills to practice, this third edition of the classic Social Work Practice retains its unique focus on thinking critically about decisions that social workers make daily...read more

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Product Description: Part of the popular Controversial Issues series, this paperback text presents a series of debates on the most current issues and topics in the area of social work ethics, values, and obligations. This book will help students and instructors at every level to think through issues of ethics, values, and obligations that arise in everyday practice...read more

Presented in the form of a debate, this volume addresses 19 controversial social, legal and policy issues concerning children and adolescents. Issues explored include parental notification of abortion, grandparent rights, children divorcing their parents, mainstreaming AIDS children and parental leave.

Product Description: Members of every profession agree on many things - and disagree on many others. Social work education often downplays controversy, making teaching in, and learning about, the field much less stimulating than it otherwise could be...read more

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Product Description: Supervision requires continuous decision-taking: how to balance case-loads; assign priorities; implement intake policies; motivate staff etc. For novice supervisors and students in the social services, this book will prove invaluable, with its focus on day-to-day decisions and inclusion of practice exercises...read more