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Resiliency, 2nd Edition
After a decade of informing students and practitioners in the field, Roberta R. Greene’s seminal text on resilience theory has been updated for a new decade with Resiliency: An Integrated … Read more
Social Work Matters
Social justice is the fuel that drives social workers and what sets social work apart from other professions. Social workers form the front line of defense for their clients and … Read more
Successful Community Leadership and Organization, 2nd Edition
Successful Community Leadership and Organization: A Skills Guide for Volunteers and Professionals, 2nd Edition updates John E. Tropman’s 1997 edition and adds more detail, including introductory chapters on the idea … Read more
Children and Families Affected By Armed Conflicts in Africa
Children and Families Affected by Armed Conflicts in Africa: Implications and Strategies for Helping Professionals in the United States aims to enhance the awareness and knowledge of helping professionals who … Read more
The Ultimate Betrayal
In the United States, a woman is physically abused by her intimate partner every nine seconds. One-third of women in the global community have experienced sexual, physical, or emotional abuse … Read more
The Parent Effect
Adolescence is a difficult developmental period for parents and teenagers alike, a phase that sends many parents searching for information or psychological help. The Parent Effect: How Parenting Style Affects … Read more
NASW Law Note: Legal Rights of Students
The Legal Rights of Students is part of a series of General Counsel Law Notes written with the support of the NASW Legal Defense Fund. This law note reviews major … Read more
How to Screen Adoptive and Foster Parents
Screening potential adoptive and foster parents is an extremely difficult task, yet many social workers who screen applicants and supervise placements have no written guide to aid in their decision … Read more
Skinny Revisited
Skinny Revisited: Rethinking Anorexia Nervosa and Its Treatment offers a thorough overview and etiological explanation of anorexia as an eating disorder. Writing from a feminist sociobehavioral perspective, Maria Baratta forges … Read more
Outcomes Measurement in the Human Services, 2nd Edition
Outcomes Measurement in the Human Services: Cross-Cutting Issues and Methods in the Era of Health Reform, 2nd Edition, updates the original volume released in 1997. The second edition’s 25 chapters … Read more
NASW Law Note: Client Confidentiality and Privileged Communications
Client Confidentiality and Privileged Communications is part of a series of General Counsel Law Notes written with the support of the NASW Legal Defense Fund. Applying the concepts of confidentiality … Read more
Money and Psychotherapy
Because of a cultural taboo against talking about money, psychotherapists and their clients avoid discussing the single most powerful cultural force shaping how people think, feel, and behave. Money and … Read more
Beyond Oversight
What does it take to successfully develop a strong and effective grassroots nonprofit board David P. Moxley’s Beyond Oversight: Developing Grassroots Nonprofit Boards for Community and Institutional Change provides nonprofit … Read more
NASW Law Note: Social Workers and Subpoenas
Social Workers and Subpoenas is part of a series of General Counsel Law Notes written with the support of the NASW Legal Defense Fund. Social workers are becoming involved in … Read more