The special features included throughout this book provide an opportunity for your students to reflect on the many fascinating and complex issues that have a bearing on everyday life—from income inequality to climate change, mental health to child welfare, and more.
New to this edition, 34 stories narrating real-world experiences, are accompanied by background information contextualizing social work interventions that promote the welfare and self-realization of individuals, families, communities, and society.
At the end of each chapter is a profile of a social worker involved in front-line, direct service work with clients in a wide variety of settings, revealing what they love about the work they do. Each profile includes chapter review questions, further suggestions for exploring social work, and helpful websites.
New ideas and new techniques continually emerge in the search for effective interventions and lasting solutions. Each chapter includes one or more two-page overviews describing the principles underlying effective social work practice. These overviews can serve as study aids as well as guides to best practice.
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Steven Hick is a retired professor of social work at Carleton University in Ottawa, and is also the author of the companion text Social Welfare in Canada: Understanding Income Security. He has practiced at home and abroad as a human rights worker, social service worker, mindfulness teacher and social policy analyst. He is also a co-founder of War Child Canada.
His recent work focuses on mindfulness meditation and its application as a client intervention, a mode of self care and a method to positively affect the therapeutic relationship. His teaching of introductory social work on Instructional Television and on the Internet has won him teaching awards and numerous accolades.
Jackie has an MSW from the University of Northern British Columbia and an EdD from Simon Fraser University. She practised social work in northern British Columbia for more than 20 years, primarily in the areas of substance use and children’s mental health. She has also held leadership roles in the areas of substance use, child protection, and education. Jackie has taught in the human service and social work faculties at the College of New Caledonia, the University of Northern British Columbia, and most recently at Thompson Rivers University.
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