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Spend a day with social workers in 54 different settings, and learn about the many career paths available to you. Did you ever wish you could tag along with a professional in your chosen field, just for a day, observing his or her every move? DAYS IN THE LIVES OF SOCIAL WORKERS allows you to take a firsthand, close-up look at the real-life days of 54 professional social workers as they share their stories. Join them on their journeys, and learn about the rewards and challenges they face.

Here are some of the social work practice settings and roles you will read about:

community and inpatient mental health
inner-city and rural schools
prisons
private practice
HIV/AIDS
hospitals
the military
hospice
public child welfare
community organizing
summer camps
international settings
youth centers
managed care
public policy
...and many more.

This book is an essential guide for anyone who wants an inside look at the social work profession. Whether you are a social work student, an experienced professional wishing to make a change in career direction, or just thinking about going into the field, you will learn valuable lessons from the experiences described in DAYS IN THE LIVES OF SOCIAL WORKERS..
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MORE DAYS IN THE LIVES OF SOCIAL WORKERS, like its popular predecessor DAYS IN THE LIVES OF SOCIAL WORKERS, illustrates through first-person narratives that there are no "typical" days in social work, but that professionally trained social workers take on a variety of roles. In this volume, there is more of a focus on macro roles than in the first, although this book also includes "micro"-level stories and illustrates ways in which social workers combine macro, mezzo, and micro level work in their everyday practice.

Here are some of the social work practice settings and roles you will read about:

* working on a national level
* program development and management
* advocacy and organizing
* policy from the inside
* training and consultation
* research and funding
* higher education
* specialized roles in the court system
* faith and spirituality
* domestic violence
* therapy and case management
* employment and hunger

This is social work! Political advocacy, agency management, sex therapy, play therapy, mediation, conducting domestic violence evaluations, writing grants, doing research, providing food for the hungry, and more--these are all roles that social workers can (and do!) play.

This easy-to-read, hard-to-put-down book will make a welcome supplement to the theory found in traditional textbooks. Find out how social work managers and practitioners put theory into practice on a day-to-day basis.

Organizations, Web sites, and additional readings are listed to assist readers in further exploring areas of social work that are interest..
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Field placement is one of the most exciting and exhilarating parts of a formal social work education It is also one of the most challenging It allows you, the student, to put into practice the concepts, theories, and skills learned in the classroom. It puts you in the position of “practicing” with live clients. It gives you room to explore and grow as a budding professional. More than anything else, it requires you to look inside yourself—to examine yourself, your abilities, your reactions, and your suitability as a social worker. It can be invigorating, and it can be extremely difficult.

Field placement—regardless of the setting or time—involves universal issues for all social work students. Those issues are reflected in THE FIELD PLACEMENT SURVIVAL GUIDE. This collection of articles from THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER magazine addresses the multitude of issues that social work students in field placement face, including choosing a placement, getting prepared, using supervision effectively, working with clients, copies with challenges, and moving on to a successful social work career.

This collection is a goldmine of practical information that will help social work students take advantage of all the field placement experience has to offer. Each chapter (many written by seasoned experts in field education; others by students) presents a different aspect of the practicum and offers students insight into the importance of both the challenges and the joys of this unique learning experience.

This book is the second in the BEST OF THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER® book series, which also includes Manfred Melcher's book, BECOMING A SOCIAL WORKER..
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For lovers of Schott’s Original Miscellany, Jeopardy, and The Book of Lists

Trivia lovers rejoice—Vital Statistics has arrived Part reference work, part compulsive bathroom read, this compendium of humorous, fascinating, quirky, and insightful tidbits offers knowledge on everything from sports and fashion to literature and architecture and everything in-between.

Organized by subject, Vital Statistics helps readers learn the answers to such pressing questions as:

What did Charles Lindbergh eat on his transatlantic flight?
How did a goat lay a curse on the Chicago Cubs?
Which color do race car drivers consider unlucky?
What are the dimensions of the average fashion model?
How many lawyers in America are named “Crook”?

Packed with an enormous array of factoids, minutiae, and random bits of wisdom, Vital Statistics is perfect for both knowledge hounds and pop culture fiends alike. From the cost of the first pair of Levi’s to the name and release date of the first color movie, rest assured, Vital Statistics has the answers..
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This book, like its predecessors Days in the Lives of Social Workers and More Days in the Lives of Social Workers, highlights the experiences of social workers through first-person narratives. This volume focuses on professional social work in direct and indirect practice with and on behalf of older adults. The contributors to this book are social workers at the BSW, MSW, and doctoral levels. Here are some of the social work practice settings, roles, and topics you will read about: working in communities; hospitals, hospice, and home health; nursing home social work, administration, inspection, and advocacy; addictions, mental illness, and homelessness in older adults; Alzheimer s and Parkinson s diseases; international settings;gerontological research; policy and macro practice; social work student experiences in gerontology; centenarians and their secrets to long life. Gerontological social work is a growing and exciting practice specialty! The stories told by these gerontological social workers will transform your thinking about what this type of work entails. You will gain a better understanding of the issues facing older adults and their social workers, and you may be inspired to pursue this career path. This engaging collection will make a welcome supplement to the theory found in traditional textbooks. Organizations, Web sites, additional readings, and a glossary of terms are included to assist you in further exploring these areas of social work practice. Photographs by social worker/photographer Marianne Gontarz York are featured to expand your visual images of real people as they grow older..
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Denying History takes a bold and in-depth look at those who say the Holocaust never happened and explores the motivations behind such claims. While most commentators have dismissed the Holocaust deniers as antisemitic neo-Nazi thugs who do not deserve a response, historians Michael Shermer and Alex Grobman have immersed themselves in the minds and culture of these Holocaust "revisionists." They have conducted personal interviews with the deniers, read their literature, monitored their Web sites, attended their conferences, engaged them in debate, and even traveled around Europe to conduct research at the Nazi extermination camps. Uncovering a complex social movement, the authors go much deeper than ever before in not only trying to understand the motives of the Holocaust deniers, but also refuting their points one by one. In the process, they show how we can be certain that the Holocaust happened and, for that matter, how we can confirm any historical event..
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Provides a comprehensive, introductory guide to change management tools and strategies including Total Quality Management (TQM), Business Process Reengineering (BPR), Benchmarking/Best Practices, Outcomes-Based Management (OBM), and Large Group Interventions (LGI). Softcover. .
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Search-engine marketing, blogs, personal fundraising pages, and podcasting are just a few of the strategies and techniques outlined in this handbook to assist fundraisers in harnessing the power of the Internet. This guide outlines a step-by-step approach to taking advantage of the e-philanthropy revolution, including a discussion of the pros and cons of soliciting funds on the web and an evaluation of creative business models—from online donor-recognition pages and virtual charity shopping malls to e-commerce and “click to give” sites. Advice on developing a strategic online fundraising plan and a section on how to successfully engage in nonprofit e-commerce, selling goods and services online, order fulfillment, customer service, payment processing, and handling returns are also included. 

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