Social Work for Sociologists
Theory and Practice
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Social Work and Workplace Bullying, Emotional Abuse and Harassment
Attention to workplace bullying, emotional abuse and harassment in social work has emerged only recently, since the start of the twenty-first century, and as this review chapter shows, the literature is still ...
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Surviving Workplace Bullying, Emotional Abuse and Harassment
Though workplace bullying is an extreme social stressor that inflicts severe harm on targets, the latter deploy overt, covert, embodied, routine and formal resistance, either as single or joint strategies, to ...
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The Contribution of Organizational Factors to Workplace Bullying, Emotional Abuse and Harassment
This chapter reviews the available international literature on the organizational antecedents of bullying and harassment by adopting the perspective of the work environment hypothesis as the main underlying th...
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Living Reference Work Entry In depth
Social Work and Workplace Bullying, Emotional Abuse and Harassment
Attention to workplace bullying, emotional abuse and harassment in social work has emerged only recently, since the start of the twenty-first century, and as this review chapter shows, the literature is still ...
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Living Reference Work Entry In depth
The Contribution of Organizational Factors to Workplace Bullying, Emotional Abuse and Harassment
This chapter reviews the available international literature on the organizational antecedents of bullying and harassment by adopting the perspective of the work environment hypothesis as the main underlying th...
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Living Reference Work Entry In depth
Surviving Workplace Bullying, Emotional Abuse and Harassment
Though workplace bullying is an extreme social stressor that inflicts severe harm on targets, the latter deploy overt, covert, embodied, routine and formal resistance, either as single or joint strategies, to ...
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Introduction
This book has been written for students and practitioners of sociology. It aims to introduce them to some important concepts from social work, concepts of which these readers may be unaware, to their detriment......
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Conclusion
Each chapter in this book identifes a number of ways in which a greater understanding of social work theory, concepts, models, and skills might benefit sociologists. Some of the ideas and practices may not be e.....
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Overview of the Historical and Contextual Development of Sociology and Social Work
In this first chapter, we identify the historical roots of ideological divisions between social work and sociology. Not all sociologists and social workers know that their disciplines were once closely linked....
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Key Values, Ethics, and Skills for Working with People
This chapter discusses developments in social work thinking about values and ethics. It explores how values and ethics are expressed in practice, whether dealing with everyday value-based problems or with rare...
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Key Social Work Frameworks for Sociologists
Chapter 1 provides an overview of the distinctiveness of social work and sociology, their differences and similarities, and their converging and diverging histories. It also provides the rationale for subseque...
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Stress and Violence in the Workplace: Theory and Practice
Work in the human services—whether on the frontlines or as a policy analyst, grant writer, researcher, manager, or teacher—is potentially satisfying and rewarding. It can also be extremely stressful, beyond th...
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Supporting the Human Services to Strengthen Communities
This concluding chapter draws together the main themes of the book. In kee** with the praxis orientation of human services, I provide recommendations for workers and managers to assist them to remain analyti...
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Introduction: Human Service Organizations and Disasters
Disasters affect human societies at a profound level. Whether “natural” or more clearly anthropogenic (human-caused), disasters tend to involve a sudden event and a long-lasting devastating aftermath that inte...
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Theories for Praxis
This chapter introduces some important theories that are relevant to understanding the social impacts of disasters, and the role of human service organizations in dealing with such impacts. I begin by discussi...
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The Canterbury Earthquakes and the Politics of Disasters
This chapter continues to follow the narratives of the Christchurch study participants, relating how they situated their personal experiences in a sociopolitical context. Some participants articulated a relati...
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Values, Meaning Making, and Community Building
The material and economic consequences of megacatastrophes are serious and long-lasting, and it is not surprising that they demand much attention, but other important phenomena also occur in the midst of devas...
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Roles and Activities of Human Services in the Aftermath of Disasters
Human service organizations and human service workers participate in formal and informal capacities in postdisaster relief and recovery efforts. They are also, albeit often less prominently, involved in predis...
