Summary
Contents
Subject index
“I am enthusiastic about this publication…it is an excellent manuscript–well-conceived, well-written, and the contributors all appear to be very well-qualified.”
–Philip Popple, Western Michigan University
This book will be helpful to you in teaching policy, practice, or introductory social work courses at the BSW or MSW level if you want to:
Generate stimulating discussion and debate among your students on how social work's roles are changing now, and may change further in the future; Expose your students to the thoughts and opinions of many of today's leaders in social work education, in essays specially written for this volume.
B. Practice Issues
B. Practice Issues
Each of the ten essays in this section addresses a particular area of concern for social workers. All have policy implications, just as the essays in Section A of Part II have practice implications. We have placed the essay on prevention at the very beginning to highlight its important but often neglected role. As Steven Schinke points out, prevention is a concept with which few social workers disagree. In the long term, prevention can be less costly not only in terms of avoiding distress to individuals but in monetary terms as well. However, it is often difficult to convince legislators and other funding sources of these potential long-term benefits. Steven Schinke describes some of the preventive research endeavors within social ...
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