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This is an innovative book that offers a comprehensive introduction to service-user discourse. Told from the point of view of people who have had direct contact with social workers & practitioners, the book asserts the importance of learning good practice from positive experiences, opening up possibilities for more effective practice.
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"Featuring contributions from practitioners, researchers, and academics, this volume synthesizes and analyzes current trends in rural social work practice and considers the most effective ways to serve rural communities. Contributors consider the history and development of rural social work from its beginnings to the present day, addressing the value of the Internet and other new information technologies in helping clients. They also examine the effects...
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"What makes the profession of social work distinctive and exciting? How do social workers differ from sociologists, psychologists, and other counselors, advocates, and helping professionals? Which degrees, licenses, and credentials can social workers obtain? And in what kinds of work, or fields of practice, can social workers specialize? All these questions are worth considering when one feels led to become a professional social worker"--
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"This text provides social work educators and undergraduate and graduate students with a complete overview of recent developments and practices in the field. Current and practical, this book covers key issues affecting social work in health care today and provides insight into the future of social work. Complete with an instructor's manual to help facilitate lectures, class discussions, and tests, Social Work in the Health Field provides students...
16) Miller Talks
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This program highlights students doing volunteers work and engaged in service learning outside the United States - helping disabled children in southern France, teaching rural indigenous children high in the Andes Mountains of Ecuador, working in a hospital for women and children in rural Kenya, giving assistance in a Masai clinic while interning with a Masai healer, working with abandoned children in Guayaquil, Ecuador, and many other volunteers...
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