Social Work: An Empowering Profession

by Brenda DuBois, Michael W. O'Melia, Karla Krogsrud Miley

/* 4067L-6, DuBois, Brenda, Social Work: An Empowering Profession, 4/e */ This book provides a complete introduction to the profession and discipline of social work. This book discusses the field and fully incorporates the strengths or empowerment perspective. The book takes a strong generalist eco-systems approach, while integrating material from the CSWE education core: values and ethics, cultural diversity, social justice, social work practice, human behavior, populations at risk, and policy and services. The authors detail the roles of the social worker in the functions of consultation, resource management, and education, and present an easy-to-understand paradigm that shows readers how the partnership between practitioners and consumers takes place at all systems levels. For social workers and social work students.

Genres: Textbooks, Social Work, Nonfiction

525 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1992

Reviews

[Tyler]

Easy read.

[Marissa]

This textbook provided some great overview of the profession of social work. It had a lot of useful information and presented it in a concise manner. I really enjoyed the "Social Work Insights" sections, which provided application to the career. The critical thinking questions didn't really appeal to me nor help me a lot, but that could have just been the nature of the course I'm taking.