Social Workers as Game Changers

Social Workers as Game Changers
Author: Laura Lewis
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2017-01-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1506317030

Designed to promote active, hands-on learning, Social Workers as Game Changers: Confronting Complex Social Issues Through Cases by Laura Lewis is composed of 11 chapter-length case studies that prepare students to address the types of challenging social issues they will encounter as practicing social workers. The cases—covering topics from immigration, gangs, and education to race, mental health, and end-of-life care—illustrate the interrelationship between the micro, mezzo, and macro levels and facilitate not just recall of facts, but also higher-level learning. Each case allows students to confront realistic scenarios as they evaluate, analyze, and synthesize information, resulting in more engaged and informed classroom discussions.

Social Workers as Game Changers

Social Workers as Game Changers
Author: Laura Lewis
Publisher:
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2018
Genre: Social justice
ISBN: 9781071800607

Enables students to increase their knowledge base about specific social issues while at the same time increasing their sense of efficacy in fulfilling their role in addressing complex social justice issues. The case method approach will be used to cover a range of topics such as immigration, homelessness, education, health care, mental health, eminent domain, poverty, gangs and community development. Students will be challenged to think critically about vital issues, weigh the advantages and disadvantages of competing solutions, explore policy alternatives, and grapple with the unintended consequences of any decision.

The Game Changers: Social Alchemists of the 21st Century

The Game Changers: Social Alchemists of the 21st Century
Author: Theresa Bullard
Publisher:
Total Pages: 78
Release: 2012-08-13
Genre:
ISBN: 9781478384786

In "The Game Changers: Social Alchemists of the 21st Century", Theresa Bullard, Ph.D. offers insights and solutions to empower us to become more conscious participants in these exciting times of change, putting current events into a possible context within the alchemical process that humanity is going through. It can be seen as a companion guide on how to navigate the tumultuous tides of change. With this knowledge we will be more equipped to harness the opportunities that such transformative times present us with.

Social Work During COVID-19

Social Work During COVID-19
Author: Timo Harrikari
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2023-04-28
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000875229

This book focusses on social work in the time of COVID-19. Social workers, their clients, and the organisations they represent have been affected by the pandemic in multiple ways. The pandemic and various efforts to curb the viral outbreak, such as face masks and lockdowns, have forced social workers to adapt to a ‘new normal’, launch new practices, mobilise social support and networks remotely, and above all, defend the most vulnerable populations. This requires an understanding of how social work and its clients are prepared for, capable to respond to, and further, to recover from a societal crisis and human disasters, like a coronavirus pandemic. Divided into three parts, it provides a wealth of knowledge related to social work in different local and cultural contexts during the period of the global pandemic. With experienced social work researchers across a diversity of settings, contexts, and research traditions, the book is reflective of the ‘glocal’ response of social work. Offering new perspectives on challenges social workers have faced in dealing with the pandemic, it makes critical and timely insights into the innovations and adaptations in social work responses, with a strong empirical basis. It will be of interest to all social work scholars, students, and practitioners.

Remaking Social Work for the New Global Era

Remaking Social Work for the New Global Era
Author: Ngoh Tiong Tan
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2022-08-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3031083520

Future social work practice requires a holistic framework to deal effectively with the great social and economic disruptions of this unprecedented time. Innovation and creativity are indispensable to empowering social workers and social service organizations to make an impact on the lives of people and societies in today's world. This book provides a range of innovative practices of social work drawing from alternate theories and with a global orientation. It is forward-looking with a focus on social resilience, social inclusion and recovery. Using a strengths perspective, discussions in the chapters provide useful insights in restructuring social life and social services at the individual as well as community and societal levels for meeting the challenges of a new global era. The chapters draw on the experiences of the authors in their academic and practice engagements and focus on a variety of arenas of social work education and practice to enrich the understanding of the present and future of the field. Authors discuss theoretical and conceptual models to review social work education and practice of engaging in a fast-changing global era and complex contexts. Topics explored include: New Era for Social Work in the Global Future Remaking Social Work by Applying an Anti-oppressive Lens Vulnerability and Resilience of Refugee Women and Children Critical Green Social Work as Futuristic Social Work Practice Globalisation and the Future of Social Work Practice and Education Equipping Social Workers for a New Global Era Remaking Social Work for the New Global Era is an essential resource to inform practice, enrich teaching, and direct future research for social work academics, researchers, educators, students, and field supervisors, as well as social care, social work and social service practitioners in both clinical and policy settings. The book also would be of interest to mental health and community professionals in various practice contexts across the globe.

Game Changer

Game Changer
Author: Tommy Greenwald
Publisher: Abrams
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2018-09-11
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1683353927

A mysterious football accident sends a high school reeling in this award-winning multimedia-format novel from Tommy Greenwald Thirteen-year-old Teddy Youngblood is in a coma, fighting for his life after an unspecified football injury at training camp. His family and friends flock to his bedside to support his recovery—and to discuss the events leading up to the tragic accident. Was this the inevitable result of playing a violent sport, or did something more sinister happen on the field that day? Told in an innovative multimedia format combining dialogue, texts, newspaper articles, interview transcripts, an online forum, and Teddy’s inner thoughts, Game Changer explores the joyous thrills and terrifying risks of America’s most popular sport.

Social Work, White Supremacy, and Racial Justice

Social Work, White Supremacy, and Racial Justice
Author: Laura S. Abrams
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 873
Release: 2023
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0197641423

This volume offers an examination of the history of racism and White supremacy in the profession of social work, current efforts to address and repair the harms caused by racism and White supremacy within the profession, and forward-thinking strategies for social work to be part of a broader societal movement to achieve an anti-racist future.

Complexity in Social Work

Complexity in Social Work
Author: Rick Hood
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2018-02-26
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1526418835

Complexity lies at the heart of social work practice and this book is designed to help students and newly-qualified social workers plan for and manage complex cases in an increasingly complex environment. Split into two parts, this book reflects the journey of qualifying social work students from preparation for practice in an educational context to learning ‘on the job’ through working with service users in practice settings, and eventually assuming a more senior role in management, administration and training. Key topics covered in the chapters include managing volatility and uncertainty, making judgements and decisions, building and maintaining relationships, using reflection and supervision, working interprofessionally, managing risk, exploring cause and effect.

Memoir of Professional Social Workers

Memoir of Professional Social Workers
Author: Dr. Kamlesh Kumar Sahu
Publisher: Indian Society of Professional Social Work
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2023-02-24
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

The ‘Memoir of Professional Social Workers’ is the second volume of the book ‘Work and Life of the Professional Social Worker’ published by the Indian Society of Professional Work (ISPSW) in the year 2022. We hope this will motivate other professional social workers to write about their own life experiences by themselves or someone else whom they know. Their in-depth experience and enriched knowledge will be advantageous for other professional social workers to learn from their life. The current volume two has fifteen scholarly articles from eminent social work professionals (both educators and practitioners) across the country.

Business Model Generation

Business Model Generation
Author: Alexander Osterwalder
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2013-02-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1118656407

Business Model Generation is a handbook for visionaries, game changers, and challengers striving to defy outmoded business models and design tomorrow's enterprises. If your organization needs to adapt to harsh new realities, but you don't yet have a strategy that will get you out in front of your competitors, you need Business Model Generation. Co-created by 470 "Business Model Canvas" practitioners from 45 countries, the book features a beautiful, highly visual, 4-color design that takes powerful strategic ideas and tools, and makes them easy to implement in your organization. It explains the most common Business Model patterns, based on concepts from leading business thinkers, and helps you reinterpret them for your own context. You will learn how to systematically understand, design, and implement a game-changing business model--or analyze and renovate an old one. Along the way, you'll understand at a much deeper level your customers, distribution channels, partners, revenue streams, costs, and your core value proposition. Business Model Generation features practical innovation techniques used today by leading consultants and companies worldwide, including 3M, Ericsson, Capgemini, Deloitte, and others. Designed for doers, it is for those ready to abandon outmoded thinking and embrace new models of value creation: for executives, consultants, entrepreneurs, and leaders of all organizations. If you're ready to change the rules, you belong to "the business model generation!"