Social Work Practice With a Difference: A Literary Approach

This unique anthology combines stories and essays by leading writers in the English-speaking world and some of our finest scholars with illuminative social work practice cases. Students learn from these rich sources about how to practice social work with knowledge of the histories, cultures, and world views of diverse others. Edited by two scholars (one with a social work background and the other with an English and American studies one), Social Work Practice With a Difference creatively grounds the knowledge, values, and skills of social work in a broad literary tradition.

ALICE LIEBERMAN (Ph.D. � University of Wisconsin, Madison) is Associate Professor of Social Work and former Director of the Undergraduate Program at the University of Kansas. She is the author of The Social WorkOut Book (Pine Forge Press, 1998). She has also conducted research and written in the fields of child welfare, mental health, and reproductive rights. Lieberman received the HOPE Award (Honor for the Outstanding Progressive Educator) in 1999. She was Co-Founder (with the late Liane Davis) of Options for Women, Inc., Co-Founder (with Sylvie Rueff) of the Second Chance Fund, was formerly on the board of the National Association of Social Workers, Kansas chapter, and is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the Council on Social Work Education. .

CHERYL LESTER (Ph.D. � State University of New York College at Buffalo) is Associate Professor of English and American Studies, Courtesy Faculty Member of African and African-American Studies, and Graduate Director of the American Studies Program at the University of Kansas. She is the author of articles on American literature and critical and cultural theory. In 1995 she was an NEH fellow, in 1997 she was a visiting professor at the University of Hong Kong, and in 1998 she was a visiting professor at the University of Gaston-Bergere in St. Louis, Senegal. She received a Kemper Teaching Award in 1998 and Center for Teaching Excellence Awards in Undergraduate and Graduate Teaching in 1998 and 2000.