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Product Description: Skills lie at the heart of all actions of a social worker, and inform all aspects of practice – from drawing on vital theoretical and ethical frameworks to applying the law and research findings to particular situations. This user-friendly and logically organised book brings together the key skills needed for practice in one place...read more
By Ray Jones (editor)

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9781137390264 | Palgrave Macmillan, November 17, 2015, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Skills lie at the heart of all actions of a social worker, and inform all aspects of practice – from drawing on vital theoretical and ethical frameworks to applying the law and research findings to particular situations.

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By Anita Gibbs (editor)

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9781137392961 | Palgrave Macmillan, August 11, 2015, cover price $100.00

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Product Description: Jane Addams was the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize as a result of her involvement with the world peace movement in the early twentieth century. Highlighting Addams's lifelong determination to use her life productively and to help those less fortunate than herself, this book shows how Addams put her education and experiences to work in establishing Chicago's Hull House, one of the first settlement houses in the United States, where she ran programs to assist the urban poor on a daily basis...read more

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9780766064607 | Enslow Pub Inc, January 1, 2015, cover price $27.94 | About this edition: Jane Addams was the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize as a result of her involvement with the world peace movement in the early twentieth century.

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9780766064614 | Enslow Pub Inc, January 1, 2015, cover price $12.88 | About this edition: Jane Addams was the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize as a result of her involvement with the world peace movement in the early twentieth century.

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Product Description: The role of the social worker is to be found lying interestingly between society and the individuals they work with. As a result, social workers often feel pulled between the demands and challenges that each presents. The Compleat Social Worker explores the many debates the profession enjoys, including those between nature and nurture, care and control, thought and feeling, art and science, facts and values...read more

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9781137469465 | Palgrave Macmillan, December 4, 2014, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: The role of the social worker is to be found lying interestingly between society and the individuals they work with.

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Product Description: Autoethnography is an innovative approach to inquiry located in the interstices between science and literature. Blending researcher and subject roles, autoethnographers use analytical strategies to explore the social and cultural contexts of meaningful life experiences and their implications for the present...read more
By Stanley L. Witkin (editor)

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9780231158800 | Columbia Univ Pr, June 3, 2014, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: Autoethnography is an innovative approach to inquiry located in the interstices between science and literature.

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9780231158817 | Columbia Univ Pr, June 3, 2014, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Autoethnography is an innovative approach to inquiry located in the interstices between science and literature.

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Product Description: Social Work often receives a bad press, but it is an intellectually, emotionally, and practically challenging profession which, in order to help people effectively, needs to attract the best candidates. This book takes a personal and human approach and presents a Newly Qualified Social Worker's experience, reflections, and gentle advice on the training process and early years of a Social Work career...read more

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9781909682092 | Intl Specialized Book Services, November 15, 2013, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Social Work often receives a bad press, but it is an intellectually, emotionally, and practically challenging profession which, in order to help people effectively, needs to attract the best candidates.

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Product Description: Human service professionals deal with a wide range of problems, from child abuse, parenting issues, and elderly care, to addictions, mental illness, sexual assault, unemployment, and criminality. These must be constructed as problems for professionals to appropriately respond to them...read more
By Jaber F. Gubrium (editor) and Margaretha Jarvinen (editor)

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9780415522526 | Routledge, September 23, 2013, cover price $160.00 | About this edition: Human service professionals deal with a wide range of problems, from child abuse, parenting issues, and elderly care, to addictions, mental illness, sexual assault, unemployment, and criminality.

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Product Description: This book is a quick and accessible reference guide to the key concepts that social work students and professionals need to understand to be effective. The authors place practice at the center of the text, and include a host of case examples to bring the concepts to life...read more

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9781446207291 | Sage Pubns Ltd, November 29, 2012, cover price $132.00 | About this edition: This book is a quick and accessible reference guide to the key concepts that social work students and professionals need to understand to be effective.

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9781446207307 | Sage Pubns Ltd, November 29, 2012, cover price $51.00 | About this edition: This book is a quick and accessible reference guide to the key concepts that social work students and professionals need to understand to be effective.

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Product Description: Social Work: The Basics is an insightful introduction to the often misrepresented world of social work. This accessible book presents a broad view of contemporary social work, exploring its roots and its possible future. It dispels myths surrounding social work, addresses media debates, and offers a balanced account of what social workers do...read more

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9780415603980 | Routledge, August 2, 2012, cover price $115.00 | About this edition: Social Work: The Basics is an insightful introduction to the often misrepresented world of social work.

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9780415603997 | 1 edition (Routledge, August 2, 2012), cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Social Work: The Basics is an insightful introduction to the often misrepresented world of social work.

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Product Description: A supplemental competency-based practice text for BSW and MSW programs.   Competency-Based Social Work Practice: An Integrated Approach to Decision Making captures how social workers actually practice with clients in their daily work, make case decisions using integrative competencies and EPAS, and reflects how social workers approach decision making...read more

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9780205776856 | Prentice Hall, December 23, 2013, cover price $103.40 | About this edition: A supplemental competency-based practice text for BSW and MSW programs.

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Product Description: Skills for Human Service Practice: Working with Individuals, Groups and Communities, 2e covers all the skills and theoretical frameworks that beginning practitioners and students in Human Services need. It encourages a critical reflective perspective to help students to mindfully reflect on their practice, in order to help them deal with the frustrations and difficulties that they will encounter in their practice...read more

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9780195562859, titled "Skills for Human Service Practice: Working With Individuals, Groups and Communities" | 2 edition (Oxford Univ Pr, January 12, 2012), cover price $59.95 | About this edition: Skills for Human Service Practice: Working with Individuals, Groups and Communities, 2e covers all the skills and theoretical frameworks that beginning practitioners and students in Human Services need.

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9780205223534 | 9 pck pap/ edition (Prentice Hall, January 31, 2012), cover price $90.47
9780205150571 | 9 edition (Prentice Hall, January 18, 2012), cover price $81.80

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Product Description: "Social work practice skills text/workbook plus web-based case studies"" "This book is part of the Connecting Core Competencies Series. This series helps students understand and master CSWE's core competencies with a variety of pedagogy highlighted competency content and critical thinking questions for the competencies throughout...read more

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9780205063512, titled "Social Work Skills for Beginning Direct Practice: Text, Workbook, and Interactive Web-Based Case Studies" | 3 pck unbn edition (Prentice Hall, February 8, 2012), cover price $99.67 | About this edition: "Social work practice skills text/workbook plus web-based case studies"" "This book is part of the Connecting Core Competencies Series.
9780205085354, titled "Social Work Skills for Beginning Direct Practice: Text, Workbook, and Interactive Web-Based Case Studies" | 3 pck pap/ edition (Prentice Hall, November 27, 2011), cover price $148.93
9780205055227, titled "Social Work Skills for Beginning Direct Practice: Text, Workbook, and Interactive Web-Based Case Studies" | 3 edition (Prentice Hall, November 7, 2011), cover price $141.60

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Product Description: Social Worker as Researcher

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9780205022724 | Lslf edition (Prentice Hall, October 21, 2011), cover price $70.40 | About this edition: Social Worker as Researcher

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9781412987936 | 2 edition (Sage Pubns, October 5, 2011), cover price $64.00
9780761985686 | Sage Pubns, February 19, 2002, cover price $48.00

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Provides a unique human rights and social justice framework to social work research.   This book is part of the Connecting Core Competencies Series. This series helps students understand and master CSWE’s core competencies with a variety of pedagogy highlighted competency content and critical thinking questions for the competencies throughout. Using an innovative approach, Social Worker as Researcher: Integrating Research with Advocacy, applies a human rights and social justice framework to social work research and evaluation as an essential tool for social work advocacy. It provides detailed coverage of the research and evaluation process from framing the problem, designing and implementing the study, and taking action with the results. It documents the history and contemporary methods of ‘who, what, where, and why we do’ as a means to understanding and eradicating individual and social problems and evaluating solutions.    The text is filled with material on critical thinking and evidence-based practice decision-making skills, vivid case examples, and experiential exercises to capture the thinking, feeling, and doing of research. It makes linkages to social work research and evaluation as a problem solving process and carefully documents the systematic step-by-step process of designing and implementing research for action.   Teaching & Learning Experience Improve Critical Thinking — The text encourages readers to take a reflective action-oriented approach to understanding problems and using research and evaluation. Engage Students — Real world social work research and evaluation examples, vivid case examples and experiental exercises help students relate theory to practice. Explore Current Issues — Up-to-date information on human rights and social justice issues is included. Apply CSWE Core Competencies — Integrates the 2008 CSWE EPAS throughout — highlights competencies and practice behaviors and includes expensive pedagogy. Support Instructors — An Instructor’s Manual and Test Bank, Computerized Test Bank (MyTest), BlackBoard Test Item File.  

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9780205042531 | Pck pap/ps edition (Prentice Hall, January 9, 2012), cover price $114.07
9780205021673 | Pck unbnd/ edition (Prentice Hall, October 21, 2011), cover price $77.07
9780205594948 | Prentice Hall, October 3, 2011, cover price $107.40 | About this edition: Provides a unique human rights and social justice framework to social work research.

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Product Description: Wondering about what career you might have in the future? Not sure where to get information on different jobs? This book can help you out. CHOOSING A COMMUNITY SERVICE CAREER: A HOW-TO GUIDE examines a variety of jobs in the field of public service...read more

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9781598453126 | Enslow Pub Inc, September 1, 2011, cover price $12.88 | About this edition: Wondering about what career you might have in the future?

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9781598451474 | Enslow Pub Inc, September 1, 2011, cover price $33.27 | About this edition: Wondering about what career you might have in the future?

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Product Description: The daughter of a prosperous Illinois businessman, Jane Addams longed to do something meaningful with her life, yet found herself shut out of most professions because of her gender. In 1889, she decided to use her inheritance from her late father to help found the pioneering settlement house, Hull House, where she and a dedicated staff of volunteers, most of them college-educated women like herself, lived and worked among some of Chicago's most destitute residents...read more

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9781604139075 | Chelsea House Pub, August 1, 2011, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: The daughter of a prosperous Illinois businessman, Jane Addams longed to do something meaningful with her life, yet found herself shut out of most professions because of her gender.

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9781849207782 | 4th edition (Sage Pubns Ltd, March 4, 2011), cover price $112.00
9781412923613 | 3 edition (Sage Pubns Ltd, August 7, 2006), cover price $104.00
9780826455765 | 2 edition (Continuum Intl Pub Group, March 1, 2004), cover price $105.00

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9781849207799 | 4th edition (Sage Pubns Ltd, March 4, 2011), cover price $50.00
9781412923620 | Sage Pubns Ltd, August 7, 2006, cover price $35.95
9781412900881 | 2 reprint edition (Sage Pubns, October 1, 2003), cover price $34.95
9780826455567 | 2 edition (Sage Pubns, July 1, 2002), cover price $21.00

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Product Description: Using student-friendly features such as case studies and a glossary, this textbook provides an introduction to the concept of agency and how it can usefully inform social welfare practice. It considers how agency and power inter-relate and how it can inform new ways of thinking about the individual and society...read more

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9781847423313 | Policy Pr, February 1, 2011, cover price $89.95

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9781847423306 | Policy Pr, February 23, 2011, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Using student-friendly features such as case studies and a glossary, this textbook provides an introduction to the concept of agency and how it can usefully inform social welfare practice.

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