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An Introduction to Social Work Practice (2012)
This practical workbook is written for social work students and includes both theory and a range of exercises, providing a good foundation for the knowledge and skills you will need for successful practice learning.
The Social Work Student's Research Handbook (2013)
The Social Work Student's Research Handbook keeps the information you need on essential classroom concepts and principles right at your fingertips. Practical and easy to use, this comprehensive handbook provides instant access to the nuts and bolts of social work research. The handbook is a perfect resource to help students integrate research into projects, theses, and dissertations, and to help practitioners refresh, review, and organize their professional processes.
Social Work with Multi-Family Groups (2014)
Here is a remarkable new volume for understanding the interrelatedness of the primary family group and the formed therapeutic group. Multiple family therapy is a special type of group practice that involves the members of several families meeting together with a professional to work on common family concerns. Rosemary Cassano, acclaimed for her qualitative research on multiple family group therapy, has produced an exciting volume that reflects the diversity of client populations and patterns and processes in these groups. Social Work With Multi-Family Groups reveals to the professional what actually goes on in the process of group interactions and practitioner interventions. In this state-of-the-art volume, social workers set forth a specific and careful definition of multiple family practice and examine the successful use of multi-family groups with families with child-labeled problems, institutionalized elderly suffering from physical and cognitive impairments and their family members, patients with life-threatening illness and their families, and several other support groups. Each of the practical examples illustrates how professionals can design helping systems for their clients that combine both professional and peer help and activate the help that is embedded in each client's own family.
Websites
AASW Code of Ethics
The Australian Association of Social Workers is the professional representative body of social workers in Australia, with more than 7,500 members.
Ageing in Australia
Australian Association of Social Workers. This position paper outlines the Australian Association of Social Workers’ views of the challenges
facing older Australians and government in their role in supporting older people.
Analysis & Policy Observatory
APO is an open access evidence platform – making public policy research and resources accessible and useable. As a unique public good with a trusted reputation, we champion open access and evidence-informed decision-making.
Amnesty International Australia
Amnesty International is a worldwide movement of people campaigning to protect human rights. We have a vision of a world in which every person enjoys all of the rights stated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights standards.
Australian Association of Social Workers
The Australian Association of Social Workers is the professional representative body of social workers in Australia, with more than 15,000 members. It was formed as a national association in 1946 and has since supported its members through the profession's many developments and changes.
Australian Counselling Association
ACA is Australia's largest single registration body for Counsellors and Psychotherapists with over 9,000 members. ACA serves a crucial role in advocating and advancing the profession of counselling and psychotherapy.
Brotherhood of St Laurence Research and Policy Centre
Australia’s largest social policy research centre in a non-government welfare organisation. In partnership with the University of Melbourne, its multidisciplinary team includes international research and policy experts.
Case Management Society of Australia and New Zealand
The CMSA was founded in 1996 by health service industry stakeholders and subsequently evolved into the National Peak Body representative for individuals and agencies involved in the specialist profession of Case Management as academics, consultants, educators, executives, managers, program and policy planners, practitioners and researchers throughout Australia.
Streaming Videos
Introducing Sociology : core concepts
This engaging video resource explores the core sociological concepts such of sociological problems, the sociological imagination, social construction, culture, socialisation and identity. Not only will it help students get into sociology, but it will also teach them transferable skills that once understood can be brought into many other aspects of the syllabus
Journals
Alternative Law Journal
Alternative Law Journal is an Australian, refereed law journal focusing on social justice, human rights and law reform, critique of the legal system, developments in alternative practice and community legal education.
Books in the Library
Case Management (2016)
Case Management: Inclusive Community Practice is a consumer-directed social work text that provides health and human services workers with the theory, knowledge and skills to help the vulnerable. This edition offers a strong in-depth overview of case management using case studies and reflective questions to teach readers to relate theory to practical situations.
Communication and Interpersonal Skills in Social Work (2010)
Good communication skills are at the heart of effective social work practice. This Third Edition enables students to develop a flexible and responsive approach to communicating with the most vulnerable people in society. Building on the success of the previous book, Juliet Koprowska looks in detail at all approaches to communication, paying particular attention to young people, adults and families.
Community services intervention (2014)
'Community Services Intervention' provides a comprehensive introduction to the theory, models and principles of practice for direct social casework. .It introduces the history and context of professional practice, provides a step-by-step guide to the key skills, demonstrates how theory supports intervention processes and outlines how to work with other professionals to assist clients to achieve best possible outcomes.
Engaging with Social Work (2014)
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the diverse and contested world of social work. It explores the key concepts and theoretical frameworks underpinning contemporary social work practice, as well as relevant professional skills and strategies from a critical perspective. In a rapidly changing world, it locates critical social work as a part of broader and ongoing struggles for social justice and human rights.
Interpersonal Social Work Skills for Community Practice (2013)
Focuses relationship-building, interviewing, recruitment, community assessment, facilitating group decision-making and task planning, creating successful interventions, working with organizations, and program evaluation, along with examples of specific applications.
The Practice of Case Management (2012)
Case management is used across a diverse range of organisational settings, from child protection to aged care; disability services; acute and community health; courts and correctional services; employment services; veteran services; education; and immigration programs. However, case management is not always successfully implemented, and practitioners often feel they are not given sufficient support.
Social Work : an Introduction (2014)
Social Work: An Introduction is designed to help your students make the best start in their academic and professional careers. Mapped throughout to the most up-to-date professional standards, the book covers the full range of knowledge and skills students need to gain in the early stages of their social work course and as they prepare to go out on placement.
Social Work Practice in Mental Health (2021)
This new edition of Social Work Practice in Mental Health builds on the underpinning principles of the previous editions, whilst reflecting how the context for practice has steadily evolved. Organised into two parts and eleven chapters, the book focuses on recovery theory, the importance of relationship and examining the social context and the consequences of illness.
THINK Sociology (2012)
Think Sociology is the Australian Sociology text students will want to read. This text thinks their thoughts, speaks their language, grapples with the current-day problems they face, and grounds sociology in real world experiences.
An Introduction to Social Work Practice (2012)
This practical workbook is written for social work students and includes both theory and a range of exercises, providing a good foundation for the knowledge and skills you will need for successful practice learning.
The Social Work Student's Research Handbook (2013)
The Social Work Student's Research Handbook keeps the information you need on essential classroom concepts and principles right at your fingertips. Practical and easy to use, this comprehensive handbook provides instant access to the nuts and bolts of social work research. The handbook is a perfect resource to help students integrate research into projects, theses, and dissertations, and to help practitioners refresh, review, and organize their professional processes.
Social Work with Multi-Family Groups (2014)
Here is a remarkable new volume for understanding the interrelatedness of the primary family group and the formed therapeutic group. Multiple family therapy is a special type of group practice that involves the members of several families meeting together with a professional to work on common family concerns. Rosemary Cassano, acclaimed for her qualitative research on multiple family group therapy, has produced an exciting volume that reflects the diversity of client populations and patterns and processes in these groups. Social Work With Multi-Family Groups reveals to the professional what actually goes on in the process of group interactions and practitioner interventions. In this state-of-the-art volume, social workers set forth a specific and careful definition of multiple family practice and examine the successful use of multi-family groups with families with child-labeled problems, institutionalized elderly suffering from physical and cognitive impairments and their family members, patients with life-threatening illness and their families, and several other support groups. Each of the practical examples illustrates how professionals can design helping systems for their clients that combine both professional and peer help and activate the help that is embedded in each client's own family.
Case Management (2016)
Case Management: Inclusive Community Practice is a consumer-directed social work text that provides health and human services workers with the theory, knowledge and skills to help the vulnerable. This edition offers a strong in-depth overview of case management using case studies and reflective questions to teach readers to relate theory to practical situations.
Communication and Interpersonal Skills in Social Work (2010)
Good communication skills are at the heart of effective social work practice. This Third Edition enables students to develop a flexible and responsive approach to communicating with the most vulnerable people in society. Building on the success of the previous book, Juliet Koprowska looks in detail at all approaches to communication, paying particular attention to young people, adults and families.
Community services intervention (2014)
'Community Services Intervention' provides a comprehensive introduction to the theory, models and principles of practice for direct social casework. .It introduces the history and context of professional practice, provides a step-by-step guide to the key skills, demonstrates how theory supports intervention processes and outlines how to work with other professionals to assist clients to achieve best possible outcomes.
Cross-cultural Social Work : Local and Global (2013)
Chapter 10. Cultural safety in new and emerging communities : older refugees experiences of health and welfare services
Engaging with Social Work (2014)
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the diverse and contested world of social work. It explores the key concepts and theoretical frameworks underpinning contemporary social work practice, as well as relevant professional skills and strategies from a critical perspective. In a rapidly changing world, it locates critical social work as a part of broader and ongoing struggles for social justice and human rights.
The Practice of Case Management (2012)
Case management is used across a diverse range of organisational settings, from child protection to aged care; disability services; acute and community health; courts and correctional services; employment services; veteran services; education; and immigration programs. However, case management is not always successfully implemented, and practitioners often feel they are not given sufficient support.
Social Work : an Introduction (2014)
Social Work: An Introduction is designed to help your students make the best start in their academic and professional careers. Mapped throughout to the most up-to-date professional standards, the book covers the full range of knowledge and skills students need to gain in the early stages of their social work course and as they prepare to go out on placement.
Social Work Practice in Mental Health (2021)
This new edition of Social Work Practice in Mental Health builds on the underpinning principles of the previous editions, whilst reflecting how the context for practice has steadily evolved. Organised into two parts and eleven chapters, the book focuses on recovery theory, the importance of relationship and examining the social context and the consequences of illness.
THINK Sociology (2012)
Think Sociology is the Australian Sociology text students will want to read. This text thinks their thoughts, speaks their language, grapples with the current-day problems they face, and grounds sociology in real world experiences.