Product Description: The applicability of attachment theory and research to social work and social policy relating to infants and children is well-established. Yet, its usefulness for enhancing the understanding of adults and their needs, both individually and as a group, has been less featured in the attachment literature...read more

Product Description: A CSWE Core Competency / Practice Behavior Workbook for Advanced Courses   Nichols’ Advancing Core Competencies: Emphasizing Practice Behaviors and Outcomes helps students master the competencies and practice behaviors with licensing-type exam questions that apply to specialized fields...read more

Product Description: Social Work and Animals represents a pioneering contribution to the literature of social work ethics and moral philosophy. It advances cogent and detailed arguments for the inclusion of animals within social work's moral framework, arguments that have profound theoretical and practical implications for the discipline and its practitioners...read more

Product Description: The book Applied Social Sciences: Social Work is a collection of essays specific to the field of Social Work. The approach is both holistic - assessment of social work, burnout, counselling, history of social work, migration, models of excellence in social work, unemployment, workaholism - and atomistic - child attachment, children's rights, coping strategies and the work - family conflict, emotional neglect, monoparental families, physical abuse, positive child disciplining, psychological abuse, rehabilitation of delinquent minors, social inclusion of youth, etc...read more

Product Description: Behavioral Methods in Social Welfare offers positive proof that behaviorism has come of age in social work. Steven Paul Schinke and the contributors to this volume are social work practitioners who document their attempts to extend the basic tenets of behavioral psychology from the laboratory, clinic, and classroom to the full range of client groups and social problems that make up the practice of social work...read more

Product Description: The topic knowledge and practical hints you need in order to make the grade in BTEC Level 3 National Health and Social Care. Inside you will find lively, in-depth coverage of all the core units and an extensive range of optional units...read more

Product Description: This volume presents an extended reflection on human dependency and the need to 'care' and be 'cared for'. Philosophers, theologians, social theorists, economists, and professional caregivers to discuss the challenges of professional caregiving, analyzing how societies can promote relationships in which individuals can give and receive 'care'...read more

Product Description: Community Practice and Urban Youth is for graduate level students in fields that offer youth studies and community practice courses. Practitioners in these fields, too, will find the book particularly useful in furthering the integration of social justice as a conceptual and philosophical foundation...read more

Product Description: What is it to care for another human being? How do we show compassion for each other? Is ‘social care’ an activity only for paid professionals? This book sets out on a radical re-examination of the nature of social care, the way it is practised, and its purpose...read more

Product Description: The actions social workers take are aimed at helping people, communities, and societies attain a sense of mastery, become or remain competent, and achieve or retain a sense of well-being. Such a broad scope of practice necessitates a theoretical foundation that is anchored in the concept of human competence...read more

The workbook provides a detailed understanding and explanation of each EPAS standard as well as extensive assessment that is divided into categories:  (1) Understanding of Knowledge and (2) Mastery and Assessment of Skills.   The Understanding of Knowledge questions focus on comprehension of each Core Competency and are multiple choice. The questions that represent mastery and assessment of skills are multiple choice, essay, and case vignettes and require the application of learning and skills to each EPAS standard.