Social Work
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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Someone To Talk ToCare and Control of the Homeless |
Someone To Talk To is an empassioned account of life on the mean streets of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Homeless and near-homeless persons recount in agonizing detail their experiences … | Tom C. Allen | 135 | 2000 | View |
Special Topics in Being a HumanA Queer and Tender Guide to Things I've Learned the Hard Way about Caring For People, Including Myself |
S. Bear Bergman’s illustrated guide to practical advice for the modern age, filtered through a queer lens. As an author, educator, and public speaker, S. Bear Bergman has documented his … | S. Bear Bergman; Saul (Illus.) Freedman-Lawson | 272 | 2021 | View |
State Theories Third EditionClassical Global and Feminist Perspectives |
The Third Edition of State Theories: Classical, Global and Feminist Perspectives formally introduces a new co-author, Wendee Kubik. Since the first edition of State Theories was published … | Murray Knuttila; Wendee Kubik | 221 | 2000 | View |
Telling TalesLiving the Effects of Public Policy |
This book documents how the political, economic and social policy changes of the last decade of the twentieth century helped and harmed different segments of Canadian society. The chapters are … | Kate Bezanson; Sheila Neysmith | 232 | 2005 | View |
The Mean Girl MotiveNegotiating Power and Femininity |
Prior to the 1980s, girls were completely excluded from research on childhood aggression, presumably because their ‘sugar and spice and everything nice’ made them averse to … | Nicole E.R. Landry | 96 | 2008 | View |
NEW! The University and Social JusticeStruggles Across the Globe |
Higher education has long been contested terrain. From student movements to staff unions, the fight for accessible, critical, and quality public education has turned university campuses globally … | Aziz Choudry; Vally Salim | 272 | 2020 | View |
This is My Real NameA Stripper's Memoir |
The frank and bracing memoir of a woman who spent ten years as a stripper. This Is My Real Name is the memoir of Cid V Brunet, who spent ten years working as a dancer at strip clubs, using the … | Cid V Brunet | 289 | 2021 | View |
Transforming the FieldCritical Antiracist and Anti-Oppressive Perspectives For the Human Services Practicum |
This text focuses on field education in social work. It provides a framework and directions for responding to issues relating to racism and oppression. It also examines how power is embedded in … | Narda Razack | 143 | 2002 | View |
WícihitowinAboriginal Social Work in Canada |
Wícihitowin is the first Canadian social work book written by First Nations, Inuit and Métis authors who are educators at schools of social work across Canada. The book begins by … | Gord (Amawaajibilang) Bruyere; Michael Anthony (Kaskitémahikan) Hart; Raven (Ótiskewápíwskew) Sinclair | 263 | 2009 | View |
NEW! White BenevolenceRacism and Colonial Violence in the Helping Professions |
When working with Indigenous people, the helping professions —education, social work, health care and justice — reinforce the colonial lie that Indigenous people need saving. In White … | Amanda Gebhard; Sheelah McLean; Verna St. Denis | 289 | 2022 | View |
From A Foundation for the Social Work ProfessionFrom: Africentric Social Work |
The editors of the volume discuss their experiences in academia, the Eurocentric model of social work, and anti-black racism. | David Este; Delores V. Mullings; Jennifer Clarke; Sulaimon Giwa; Wanda Thomas Bernard | 25 | 2021 | $2.50 Add |
From Acknowledgements |
- | Jeanette A. Auger | 1 | 2019 | $0.10 Add |
From AcknowledgmentsFrom: Engage, Connect, Protect |
Thanks and acknowledgments from the primary author. | Angelou Ezeilo | 2 | 2019 | $0.20 Add |
From An Introduction to Nature for TherapyFrom: Nature-Based Therapy |
Promoting a dose of nature clarifies the minimum time exposure people should be outdoors and seeks to highlight the socioecological benefits this natural, accessible, and free health remedy can … | David Segal; Kathryn Rose; Nevin Harper | 21 | 2019 | $2.10 Add |
From Anti-Oppressive Practice: Roots, Theory, Tensions |
This chapter describes the origins and core themes of anti-oppressive practice (aop), as well as any ongoing tensions in the relatively new theory of social work practice. | Donna Baines; Natalie Clark | 38 | 2022 | $3.80 Add |
From Black ConsciousnessFrom: Black Cop |
A brief overview of Calvin’s early life growing up in Yarmouth, N.S. Details his early experiences with racism and the 1960s black community in Nova Scotia. | Calvin Lawrence; Miles Howe | 28 | 2019 | $2.80 Add |