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Culturally Responsive Diversity in Social Work Field Practice
The chapter explores a fundamental aspect of social work practice: cultural sensitivity and diversity. It delves into the significance of...
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Social Equity
Social equity is the principle that governments are culpable in marginalizing many populations and that governments have a special duty to...
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Concluding and Future Directions in Social Work Field Practice
This final chapter offers a comprehensive exploration of the critical juncture where fieldwork concludes and practitioners set their sights on the...
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COVID-19 in the UAE: Social Work, Human Rights, and Mental Health
The paper adds to a growing body of social work research that examines service delivery during the COVID-19 pandemic. The advent and spread of...
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Introduction to Social Work
This beginning chapter provides a comprehensive overview of the field of social work, encompassing its meanings, scope, and various levels of...
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Defining the Social Equity Issues in Sustainability
Social equity concerns are complicated because of political and economic realities and the number of variables the lens can embrace. This book...
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Social Work and Sustainable Development Goals: A Human Rights Common Agenda
The theme for World Social Work Day (WSWD) 2017 focused on “promoting environmental and community sustainability.” The day celebrated and promoted...
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Teaching Indigenous Social Work in Mainstream Social Work Education in Taiwan
According to statistics in 2021, indigenous peoples account for approximately 2.4% of the total population in Taiwan, representing more than half a...
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Low Pay for Social Workers is a Human Rights Violation, and Social Work Professors Must Help to Change It
Despite an unending commitment to social justice and equality, social work remains among the lowest paid professions in the United States (U.S.)....
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Understanding Indigenous Social Work Education and Practice: Local and Global Debates
This chapter examines the relationship between interchangeable terms used to describe issues related to Indigenous social work education and...
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Promoting Food Justice and the Right to Adequate Food in Social Work Education
Food justice is centered on the principle that food is a basic human right. Despite a mandate to include human rights and social justice content in...
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The Transformative Potential of Transfeminist Social Work Practice
There is scant literature regarding the application of transfeminist theory in social work practice despite high rates of discrimination and violence...
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Decolonial Social Work from an Indigenous Perspective
Indigenous social workers are increasingly defining a space in education and practice that is more than culturally competent but one that is...
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Preparing for Fieldwork in Social Work
This chapter serves as a crucial compass for social work students gearing up for their fieldwork experiences. It lays the groundwork by emphasizing...
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Decolonizing Social Work Education
Social work education has not strongly embraced an ongoing call for radical change in the structure of social and economic institutions on behalf of...
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Defining the Social Equity Issues in Sustainability
Social equity concerns are complicated because of political and economic realities and the number of variables the lens can embrace. This book...
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Human Rights in Chilean Social Work: Lessons from Chile to Prepare Social Work Students for Human Rights Practice
This article presents findings from two studies conducted in Chile to examine the link between human rights and social work practice. The focus of...
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Validation of the teaching equity enactment scenario scale in Singapore: a mixed-methods convergent study
Given the persistent and endemic educational inequalities and increasingly diverse and yet politically divisive societies, teaching that is inclusive...
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Feminist Research and Practice: Reorienting a Politic for Social Work
Social work research, practice, and education have become increasingly constrained by the braided influences of neoliberalism, professionalization,...