Social Work: An Empowering Profession [with MyHelpingLab]

by Brenda DuBois, Karla Krogsrud Miley

Through its discipline-oriented approach to social work, this introductory textbook integrates foundational content areas from the Council on Social Work Education with the contemporary themes of empowerment, strengths, and social justice. The fifth edition of the first textbook to fully incorporate the strengths or empowerment perspective takes a strong generalist eco-systems approach while examining values and ethics, cultural diversity, social justice, social work practice, human behavior, populations at risk, and policy and services. The text details the roles of the social worker as consultant, resource manager, and educater, and presents an easy-to-understand paradigm that shows students how the partnership between practitioners and consumers takes place at all systems levels.

Genres: Textbooks, Social Work, Nonfiction

544 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1992

Reviews

[Tyler · Rating 5 out of 5]

Easy read.

[Marissa · Rating 3 out of 5]

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.