Series: New Directions in Social Work

This addition to Anissa Rogers' bestselling Human Behavior in the Social Environment expands the original text with new chapters on spirituality, families and groups, organizations, and communities. Written in the compact, concise manner of the original text, the new chapters cover mezzo and macro contexts and offer additional material valuable to two- and three-semester HBSE courses. These new supplemental chapters...

In this book and companion website you will find: ■ A practice-oriented description of qualitative and quantitative research methods that engages rather than intimidates students. ■ Illustrations of real-life research and evaluation from different levels of social work practice, encompassing many populations. ■ Attention to the ethics and politics of research at each phase of the process, from the identification...

Social Policy for Effective Practice: A Strengths Approach sharpens students' awareness of social welfare policy and offers a considerable array of resources and knowledge foundations to both understand and thrive within a continually evolving policy landscape. Throughout the text, the authors tell the stories of social workers who impact policy, incorporate frameworks for policy analysis, centre social work values and...

Social Policy for Effective Practice: A Strengths Approach sharpens students' awareness of social welfare policy and offers a considerable array of resources and knowledge foundations to both understand and thrive within a continually evolving policy landscape. Throughout the text, the authors tell the stories of social workers who impact policy, incorporate frameworks for policy analysis, centre social work values and...

The fourth edition of Human Behavior in the Social Environment takes a life course perspective to give a concise, compact treatment of human behaviour. This edition includes the DSM-5, the 2015 EPAS competencies, and a new chapter that explores the future of social work and some of the emerging issues facing the profession. The text also comes with a rich...