Applying a Human Rights Approach to Social Work Research and Evaluation: A Rights Research Manifesto (Maschi Tina)(Paperback)

Applying a Human Rights Approach to Social Work Research and Evaluation: A Rights Research Manifesto (Maschi Tina)(Paperback)

Introduction.- Understanding and Applying a Human Rights Framework.- Research and Evaluation that Makes a Difference.- Informed Decision-Making, Multiple Perspectives, Approaches, and Methods.- Social Contexts, Meaningful Participation, Relational Communication.- Holistic Analysis, Discerning

Human Rights and Social Work: Towards Rights-Based Practice (Ife Jim)(Paperback)

Social Work and Social Welfare: A Human Rights Foundation (Van Wormer Katherine)(Paperback)

Unique in its use of a human rights framework, Social Work and Social Welfare goes beyond American borders to examine U.S. government policies-including child welfare, social services, health care, and criminal justice-within a global context. Guided by the belief that forces from the global market

Introduction to Research - Understanding and Applying Multiple Strategies (DePoy Elizabeth)(Paperback / softback)

Learn the latest healthcare and human service research methods! Introduction to Research: Understanding and Applying Multiple Strategies, 6th Edition helps bridge the gap between research and practice by giving you a solid foundation for critiquing your own work. This easy-to-read guide covers all

Trauma and Human Rights: Integrating Approaches to Address Human Suffering (Butler Lisa D.)(Paperback)

Human rights violations and traumatic events often comingle in victims' experiences; however, the human rights framework and trauma theory are rarely deployed together to illuminate such experiences. This edited volume explores the intersection of trauma and human rights by presenting the

Research Methods for Social Workers (Bell Linda)(Paperback)

This handy book is a one-stop introduction to research and evaluation for social workers. Including unique project examples, exercises, discussion points and extensive signposting to further reading, and drawing on the author's many years of teaching experience, it is essential reading for students

Developmental Evaluation: Applying Complexity Concepts to Enhance Innovation and Use (Patton Michael Quinn)(Paperback)

Developmental evaluation (DE) offers a powerful approach to monitoring and supporting social innovations by working in partnership with program decision makers. In this book, eminent authority Michael Quinn Patton shows how to conduct evaluations within a DE framework. Patton draws on insights

Research Design in Social Work: Qualitative and Quantitative Methods (Campbell Anne)(Paperback)

Social work research often focuses on qualitative designs and many students believe that the quantitative research pathway is either too complicated or is beyond their grasp. This book outlines how social work students can undertake a research project from either a qualitative, quantitative or

Atlas of Human Rights - Mapping Violations of Freedom Worldwide (Fagan Andrew)(Paperback / softback)

Human rights have become synonymous with legal, political, social and even economic justice - as a means of overcoming oppression and discrimination irrespective of nationality, class, creed, gender, ethnicity, or ideological commitment. This title reveals the inequities within the various

Human Rights and Schooling: An Ethical Framework for Teaching for Social Justice (Osler Audrey)(Paperback)

Social Work Practice: Concepts, Processes, and Interviewing (Bogo Marion)(Paperback)

Social Work Practice synthesizes the latest theories and research findings in social work and related fields and demonstrates how this information is used in working with clients. Because the interview is the medium in which much of social work practice takes place, learning the processes and

The Justice Cascade: How Human Rights Prosecutions Are Changing World Politics (Sikkink Kathryn)(Pevná vazba)

Drawing on extensive research and illuminating personal experience, Sikkink reveals how the stunning emergence of human rights prosecutions has come about; what effect it has had on democracy, conflict, and repression; and what it means for leaders and citizens everywhere, from Uruguay to the

Social Work Pocket Guide to...: Reflective Practice (Siobhan Maclean)(Paperback)

The Social Work Pocket Guide to Reflective Practice summarises theory and research in an accessible way and offers practical suggestions for skill

Ethics in Participatory Research for Health and Social Well-Being: Cases and Commentaries (Banks Sarah)(Paperback)

Participatory research is well-established as an approach involving people with a direct interest in, or experience of, the issue being studied in carrying out research. However, it raises unique and challenging ethical issues. Traditional concerns with respect for the rights to confidentiality,

Social Research Methods: Qualitative, Quantitative and Mixed Methods Approaches (Grnmo Sigmund)(Paperback)

Structured around one of the concepts students struggle with the most--the research question--this book begins with how to understand the role of good questions before demonstrating how questions underpin good research designs and how social research can be framed as asking and answering questions

Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice (Donnelly Jack)(Paperback)

In the third edition of his classic work, revised extensively and updated to include recent developments on the international scene, Jack Donnelly explains and defends a richly interdisciplinary account of human rights as universal rights. He shows that any conception of human rights--and the idea

Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection (Cacioppo John T.)(Paperback)

University of Chicago social neuroscientist John T. Cacioppo pioneered research on the startling effects of loneliness: a sense of isolation or social rejection disrupts not only our ability to think and will power but also our immune systems, and can be as damaging as obesity or smoking. On the

Witnessing Torture: Perspectives of Torture Survivors and Human Rights Workers (Moore Alexandra S.)(Paperback)

This book demonstrates a new, interdisciplinary approach to life writing about torture that situates torture firmly within its socio-political context, as opposed to extending the long line of representations written in the idiom of the proverbial dark chamber. By dismantling the rhetorical divide

Walking Methodologies in a More-than-human World: WalkingLab (Springgay Stephanie)(Paperback)

As a research methodology, walking has a diverse and extensive history in the social sciences and humanities, underscoring its value for conducting research that is situated, relational, and material. Building on the importance of place, sensory inquiry, embodiment, and rhythm within walking

Doing Social Work Research (Smith Roger)(Paperback / softback)

This accessible book is based on the author's extensive practical experience of carrying out and teaching research in the social work field. Social work research is shown to be both a distinctive academic enterprise and a task that can be accomplished effectively in line with the values and ethical

Ehealth Research, Theory and Development: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach (Van Gemert-Pijnen Lisette)(Paperback)

This is the first book to provide a comprehensive overview of the social and technological context from which eHealth applications have arisen, the psychological principles on which they are based, and the key development and evaluation issues relevant to their successful intervention.Integrating