Routledge Social Work - Articles

Featured Title: Innovative Interventions in Child and Adolescent Mental Health

2011-09-16T15:11:25Q

In Innovative Interventions in Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Christine Lynn Norton (Texas State University, San Marcos) uses the latest research to emphasize that children and adolescents need more than just talk therapy. These innovative interventions can be applied in a variety of practice settings including schools, juvenile justice, community-based counseling centers, and residential treatment.

Featured Series - Student Social Work Series

2011-04-28T08:07:26Q

This series of textbooks provide Social Work students with useful, user-friendly textbooks packed with additional features including case studies and further reading.

Featured Title - Sociology for Social Workers and Probation Officers

2010-06-09T14:57:21Q

How does a social work student make the connection between sociological knowledge and day-to-day social work? Sociology for Social Workers and Probation Officers provides an introduction to sociological ideas and research and places them firmly into the context of actual social work practice. To find out more, click here

Featured Title - Ethical Issues in Youth Work

2010-06-09T14:43:43Q

This fully updated new edition of Ethical Issues in Youth Work presents a comprehensive overview and discussion of the core ethical dilemmas facing youth workers in their everyday practice. To find out more, please click here.

Social Work Book of the Month, April 2010 - International Encyclopedia of Social Policy

2010-04-08T11:43:06Q

The International Encyclopedia of Social Policy provides the most substantial mapping of the international study and practice of social policy to date and will stand as a vital storehouse of knowledge for many years to come.

Health and Social Work Book of the Month, March 2010 - Managing in Health and Social Care

2010-03-15T08:53:18Q

Managing in Health and Social Care is about developing skills to manage and improve health and social care services. The focus throughout is on the role that a manager can play in ensuring effective delivery of high-quality services. Examples from social care and health settings are used to illustrate techniques for managing people, resources, information, projects and change.

Featured Social Work book - Key Issues in Childhood and Youth Studies

2010-02-25T15:12:58Q

Key Issues in Childhood and Youth Studies presents an informed and critical commentary on a range of key issues related to children and childhood, from birth to eighteen years. Challenging current orthodoxies within the adult world on the nature of childhood, it is an essential text for students of childhood and youth studies as well as those studying relevant professional qualifications in social work, teaching and health.

Featured Series: New Directions in Social Work

2010-02-08T19:40:44Q

An authentic breakthrough in social work learning!

New Directions in Social Work is an innovative, integrated series of Texts, Web site, and Interactive Case Studies for generalist courses in the Social Work curriculum at both undergraduate and graduate levels. The texts and web contents work together to provide instructors with everything they need to build a comprehensive course that allows students to meet course outcomes. Explore the website today at www.routledgesw.com.

The New Directions in Social Work series is edited by Alice A. Lieberman, professor at the School of Social Welfare at the University of Kansas.

Features Include:

• All texts, interactive cases, and test materials are linked to the 2008 CSWE Policy and Accreditation Standards (EPAS).
• One Web portal with easy access for instructors and students from any computer - no codes, no CDs, no restrictions. Go to www.routledgesw.com and discover.
• The Series is flexible and can be easily adapted for use in online distance-learning courses as well as hybrid and conventional classroom courses.
• Each Text and the Web site can be used individually or as an entire Series to meet the needs of any social work program.
• A wealth of instructor-only resources available at www.routledgesw.com that include sample syllabi, Internet resources, objective and essay-type test items all linked to current EPAS standards

The first three books in the series have already been released! Look for the last two books in January 2011.

Featured Series: Student Social Work

2010-02-08T12:14:28Q

This new series of textbooks provide Social Work students with useful, user-friendly textbooks packed with additional features including case studies and further reading.