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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
- September 2007
- 9781551303345
- $67.95 Print
- $62.95 Digital
- June 2007
- 9781551303291
- $54.95 Print
- $49.95 Digital
Spirituality and Social Work
Selected Canadian Readings
John Coates, John R. Graham, Barbara Swartzentruber
- August 2005
- 9781551302782
- $68.95 Print
- $63.95 Digital
Social Work in Health and Mental Health
Issues, Developments and Actions
Tuula Heinonen, Anna Metteri
- August 2005
- 9781551302768
- $54.95 Print
- $49.95 Digital
- February 2005
- 9781551302591
- $38.95 Print
- $33.95 Digital
Violence in the Family
Social Work Readings and Research from Northern and Rural Canada
Keith Brownlee, John Graham
- August 2004
- 9781551302331
- $62.95 Print
- June 2003
- 9781551302256
- $62.95 Print
- $57.95 Digital
- October 1998
- 9781551301099
- $30.95 Print
- $25.95 Digital
The Insanity of Alcohol
Social Problems in Canadian First Nations Communities
Paul C. Whitehead, Michael J. Hayes
- January 1994
- 9780921627999
- $79.95 Print