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Social Work
Featured titles in Social Work
- Experienced community organizer and professor Patricia Spindel provides a practical guide for producing change through community action and social activism in the updated second edition of Changing Communities. Spindel explores who has power in society and how communities can ... more
- Taking a unique look at health promotion and aging in Canada, this edited collection uses the action framework in the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion to explore the factors and issues related to the health of older adults. The book is organized around the five action areas... more
Promoting the Health of Older Adults
The Canadian Experience
Irving Rootman, Peggy Edwards, Mélanie Levasseur, Frances Grunberg
- Poverty, Mental Health, and Social Inclusion offers a comprehensive selection of chapters written by academic researchers as well as direct practitioners and mental health consumer-survivors to examine the intersection of poverty, mental health, and social exclusion. With the ... more
Poverty, Mental Health, and Social Inclusion
Cheryl Forchuk, Rick Csiernik
- In its second edition, this accessible health and human services manual offers a critical overview of the issues and challenges that families face and provides practical strategies for promoting resilience and positive family functioning. Through clinical and sociological pers... more
Working with Families, Second Edition
A Guide for Health and Human Services Professionals
Patricia Spindel
- December 2015
- 9781551308852
- $98.95 Print
- $93.95 Digital
- September 2015
- 9781551308821
- $72.95 Print
- $67.95 Digital
Research as Resistance, Second Edition
Revisiting Critical, Indigenous, and Anti-Oppressive Approaches
Leslie Brown, Susan Strega
- July 2015
- 9781551307268
- $74.95 Print
- $69.95 Digital
LGBTQ People and Social Work
Intersectional Perspectives
Brian J. O'Neill, Tracy A. Swan, Nick J. Mulé
- July 2014
- 9781551305714
- $72.95 Print
- $67.95 Digital
- August 2013
- 9781551305400
- $67.95 Print
- $62.95 Digital
- March 2013
- 9780889614864
- $89.95 Print
- $84.95 Digital
Women and HIV Prevention in Canada
Implications for Research, Policy, and Practice
Jacqueline Gahagan
- March 2013
- 9781551305349
- $76.95 Print
- $71.95 Digital
Mad Matters
A Critical Reader in Canadian Mad Studies
Brenda A. LeFrançois, Robert Menzies, Geoffrey Reaume
- January 2012
- 9781551304014
- $51.95 Print
- $46.95 Digital
- June 2011
- 9781551303901
- $78.95 Print
Homelessness, Housing, and Mental Health
Finding Truths — Creating Change
Cheryl Forchuk, Rick Csiernik, Elsabeth Jensen
- April 2010
- 9780889614710
- $74.95 Print
- $69.95 Digital
- January 2010
- 9780889614673
- $62.95 Print
- $57.95 Digital
- September 2009
- 9781551303642
- $54.95 Print
- $49.95 Digital
Structural Social Work in Action
Examples From Practice
Steven F. Hick, Heather I. Peters, Tammy Corner, Tracy London
- May 2009
- 9781551303635
- $78.95 Print
- April 2009
- 9781551303574
- $63.95 Print
- $58.95 Digital
- January 2009
- 9781551303512
- $53.95 Print
- $48.95 Digital
Walking in the Good Way / Ioterihwakwaríhshion Tsi Íhse
Aboriginal Social Work Education
Ingrid Thompson Cooper, Gail Stacey Moore
- October 2008
- 9780889614628
- $60.95 Print
- $55.95 Digital
- April 2008
- 9781551303390
- $65.95 Print
- $60.95 Digital
Daily Struggles
The Deepening Racialization and Feminization of Poverty in Canada
Maria A. Wallis, Siu-ming Kwok
- March 2008
- 9780889614642
- $60.95 Print
- $55.95 Digital