Social Work Practice Books

New and Published Books

1. From Trauma to Healing

   A Social Worker's Guide to Working with Survivors

   By Ann Goelitz, Abigail Stewart-Kahn

   From Trauma to Healing: A Social Worker’s Guide for Working With Survivors is the next significant publication on trauma in the field of social work. Since September 11 and Hurricane Katrina, social workers have come together increasingly to consider how traumatic events impact practice. From...

   Published February 21st 2013 by Routledge
2. Strengthening Systems to Prevent Intimate Partner Violence and Sexual Violence

   Edited by Pat Conway, Pamela Cox, Patricia Cook-Craig, Sandra Ortega, Theresa Armstead

   Over the past 25 years, developing coordinated responses to intimate partner violence and sexual violence has improved both perpetrator accountability, and victim safety and self-determination. However, preventing intimate partner violence and sexual violence from occurring is beyond the ability of...

   Published December 5th 2012 by Routledge
3. Community Mental Health

   Challenges for the 21st Century, Second Edition

   Edited by Jessica Rosenberg, Samuel Rosenberg

   The first edition of Community Mental Health quickly established itself as one of the most comprehensive and timely books about mental health practice in community settings. Readers will find that this new edition is also on the leading edge of the field, providing the most up-to-date research and...

   Published August 24th 2012 by Routledge
4. Human Growth and Development

   An Introduction for Social Workers

   By John Sudbery

   Series: Student Social Work

   Social workers work with people at all stages of life, tackling a multitude of personal, social, health, welfare, legal and educational issues. As a result, all social work students need to understand human growth and development throughout the lifespan. This introductory text provides a knowledge...

   Published October 27th 2009 by Routledge
5. Working More Creatively with Groups

   3rd Edition

   By Jarlath Benson

   A new edition of the classic group work textbook! In Working More Creatively with Groups, Jarlath Benson presents the essential knowledge required to set up and work with a group. He looks at how to plan and lead a group successfully and how to intervene skilfully. As well as covering the different...

   Published September 27th 2009 by Routledge
6. Violence and Abuse Issues

   Cross-Cultural Perspectives for Health and Social Services

   By Lee Ann Hoff

   After centuries of being considered a private matter in most societies, violence and its profound effect on the physical health, mental health, and social well-being of victims and their families, as well as on the assailants themselves, has started to take centre stage as a public issue of...

   Published June 28th 2009 by Routledge
7. Violence Against Women

   Vulnerable Populations

   By Douglas A. Brownridge

   Series: Contemporary Sociological Perspectives

   Violence Against Women: Vulnerable Populations investigates under-researched and underserved groups of women who are particularly vulnerable to violent victimization from an intimate male partner. In the past, there has been an understandable reluctance to address this issue to avoid stereotyping...

   Published January 14th 2009 by Routledge
8. Understanding Child Abuse

   The Partners of Child Sex Offenders Tell Their Stories

   By Terry Philpot

   Understanding Child Abuse is the first book to look at women whose partners are child sex offenders. Much of the book is devoted to the voices of the women themselves, telling their stories and how they feel about the situations in which they found themselves, how they coped, and how they remade...

   Published November 18th 2008 by Routledge
9. Encyclopedia of Social Work with Groups

   Edited by Alex Gitterman, Robert Salmon

   What do you have to know, today, to be an effective group worker and what are the different group work approaches? With 110 articles and entries, this book provides a comprehensive overview of social work with groups from its initial development to its astounding range of diverse practice today...

   Published October 29th 2008 by Routledge
10. Strength and Diversity in Social Work with Groups

    Think Group

    Edited by Carol S. Cohen, Michael H Phillips, Meredith Hanson

    How can groups effectively meet the needs of humans in areas as diverse as aid, responsibility, action, healing, learning and acceptance? This edited volume aims to address these issues and provide ways to extend the current reach and quality of social work with groups. Based on a selection of...

    Published August 4th 2008 by Routledge