Social Work and Social Welfare: An Invitation
Social Work and Social Welfare: An Invitation is a best-selling text and website for introduction to social work courses. It provides students with the knowledge, skills, and values that are essential for working with individuals, families, groups, organizations, communities, and public policy in a variety of practice settings.
The fifth edition of Social Work and Social Welfare: An Invitation is in full color, with more visuals and photos throughout. As with previous editions, this book is an up-to-date profile of the world in which todays social workers practice, with current demographic, statistical, legislative, policy, and research information; and sensitive discussions of contemporary ethical issues. The text includes exercises from six interactive cases. Visit www.routledgesw.com for the detailed cases and companion materials that teach students about social work through practice.
In this book and companion custom website you will find:
An emphasis on a strengths-based perspective and attention to diversity, social environment, theory and theoretical frameworks, levels of social work practice, and an array of fields of practice.
The histories of social welfare and the social work profession presented as the intertwined phenomena that they are.
A profile of the contemporary landscape of the society in which social workers practice.
Social work practice within the framework of planned change, encompassing: engagement, assessment, intervention, and evaluation and termination.
The opportunity to hear from social work practitioners working in fourteen diverse and challenging practice settings.
Six unique, in-depth, interactive, easy-to-access cases that students can easily reach from any computer, provide a learning by doing format unavailable with any other text(s). Students will have an advantage unlike any other they will experience in their social work training.
A wealth of instructor-only resources provide: full-text readings that link to the concepts presented in each of the chapters; a complete bank of objective and essay-type test items, all linked to current CSWE EPAS standards; PowerPoint presentations to help students master key concepts; annotated links to a treasure trove of social work assets on the internet; and a forum inviting all instructors using texts in the series to communicate with each other, and share ideas to improve teaching and learning.
Marla Berg-Weger is a professor in the School of Social Work at Saint Louis University, Missouri, where she also serves as the Executive Director, Geriatric Education Center, and is a past Director of Field Education. Dr. Berg-Weger has been a social worker for four decades and holds social work degrees at the bachelors, masters, and doctoral levels. Her social work practice experience includes public social welfare services, domestic violence services, mental health, and gerontological and health care social work. Her research and writing focus on social work practice and gerontological social work, particularly in the areas of family caregiving, dementia care, and older adult mobility. With Julie Birkenmaier, she co-authored the textbook The Practicum Companion for Social Work: Integrating Class and Field Work. With Birkenmaier, she co-authored another book in this series, Contemporary Social Work Practice. She is the past President and Secretary of the Association of Gerontology Education in Social Work and Managing Editor of the Journal of Gerontological Social Work. She is a Fellow in the Gerontological Society of America.
New Directions in Social Work
www.routledgesw.com
Melinda Lewis, University of Kansas, Series editor
An authentic breakthrough in social work education
New Directions in Social Work is an innovative, integrated series of texts, web site, and interactive case studies for generalist courses in the Social Work curriculum at both undergraduate and graduate levels. Instructors will find everything they need to build a comprehensive course that allows students to meet course outcomes and prepare for effective and ethical social work practice. The New Directions series is distinguished by these unique features:
All texts, interactive cases, and test materials are linked to the 2015 CSWE Policy and Accreditation Standards (EPAS).
One Web portal with easy access for instructors and students from any computer no codes, no CDs, no restrictions. Go to www.routledgesw.com and discover.
The Series is flexible and can be easily adapted for use in online distance-learning courses as well as hybrid/blended and traditional format courses.
Each Text and the Web site can be used individually or as an entire Series to meet the needs of any social work program.
Research for Effective Social Work Practice, 4thEdition
Judy L. Krysik and Jerry Finn
Social Policy for Effective Practice, 4thEdition
A Strengths Approach
Rosemary K. Chapin
The Practice of Generalist Social Work, 4thEdition
Julie Birkenmaier and Marla Berg-Weger
Social Work and Social Welfare, 5thEdition
An Invitation
Marla Berg-Weger
Human Behavior in the Social Environment, 5thEdition
Anissa Taun Rogers
For more information about this series, please visit: www.routledgesw.com
Social Work and Social Welfare
An Invitation
Fifth Edition
Marla Berg-Weger
Fifth edition published 2019
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First edition published by McGraw-Hill 2005
Fourth edition published by Routledge 2016
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Berg-Weger, Marla, 1956- author.
Title: Social work and social welfare : an invitation / Marla Berg-Weger, Saint Louis University.
Description: Fifth edition. | New York, NY : Routledge, 2019. | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Identifiers: LCCN 2018040706 (print) | LCCN 2018041785 (ebook) | ISBN 9780429466687 (Master Ebook) | ISBN 9780429882371 (Web pdf) | ISBN 9780429882364 (ePub) | ISBN 9780429882357 (Mobipocket) | ISBN 9781138608207 (hardback) | ISBN 9781138608214 (pbk.) | ISBN 9781138608221 (international edition)
