Social Work: A Profession of Many Faces: International Edition - Softcover

Morales, Armando T.; Sheafor, Bradford W.; Scott, Malcolm

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0205725244 ISBN 13: 9780205725243

Publisher: Pearson, 2009

Synopsis

This best-selling text continues to offer a comprehensive introduction to the field of social work with a unique focus on the diverse groups to whom social workers provide services, including children, older adults, disabled persons, and members of minority racial and ethnic groups. Social Work: A Profession of Many Faces, now in its Tenth Edition, has educated approximately 150,000 students since 1977. This text includes historical material on the emergence of social work as a profession, the areas and groups where human services are provided, and career opportunities for social workers today. The book reflects up-to-date empirical data about where social workers are employed, what positions they hold, what personal characteristics they bring to their practice, and the competencies required to perform their work.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

This best-selling text, now in its Tenth Edition, continues to give students a thorough introduction to the field of social work, with unique attention paid toward the diverse groups with whom social workers provide services, including children, older adults, disabled persons, and members of minority racial and ethnic groups.

New to this Edition:

• An informative and powerful chapter on social work practice with Muslims in America speaks to the aftermath of September 11, 2001.
• Newly updated statistics that reflect the 2000 Census.
• Totally revised chapters on social work in rural areas and social work with women.
• New chapter on social work practice and African Americans.

“I can always rely on the currency of data and information in the Morales and Sheafor text. Having frequent updated editions of the text makes it an attractive text selection. Social Work is an area that is constantly changing and evolving and it is very important to have a text that presents current data and information.”
Carol J. Bridges, East Central University

About the Author:

Armando T. Morales... Coming Soon!

Brad Sheafor is Professor of Social Work at Colorado State University where has taught a wide variety of courses in both the BSW and MSW programs. He has also served in administrative positions including Director of the social work program, Associate Dean for Research and Interim Dean of the umbrella college that includes social work, Associate Director of the Human Factors Research Laboratory, and Co-Director of the Family and Youth Institute.

                Dr. Sheafor has served as a juvenile probation officer, director of a community planning council, and as president of his local United Way. He has been a member of the Exam Committee for the Association of Social Work Boards (licensing), part of the workgroup creating NASW’s Center for Workforce Studies, and a founding member of the Baccalaureate Program Directors Association. With the Council on Social Work Education he has been President, Senior Scholar, and recipient of CSWE’s Lifetime Achievement in Social Work Education Award. He has also been a Fulbright Lecturer to New Zealand and a Visiting Fellow in Australia.

                Dr. Sheafor is co-author of 23 books listed with the Library of Congress. In addition to12 editions of Social Work: A Profession of Many Faces (with Armando Morales and Malcolm Scott), he has co-authoredTechniques for Social Work Practice (8 editions with Charles Horejsi), a history of the development of baccalaureate social work in the United States (with Barbara Shank), a book on field instruction (edited with Lowell Jenkins), and book reporting a comprehensive task analysis of social work practice (with Robert Teare).

Malcolm Scott.... Coming Soon!

About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0205725244
• ISBN 13: 9780205725243
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 608