Social, Economic, and Environmental Justice (eBook)

Building Social Work Practice Skills

Kalea Benner, Diane N. Loeffler, Natalie D. Pope (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021 | 1., First Edition
310 Seiten
Springer Publishing Company (Verlag)
978-0-8261-3539-1 (ISBN)

Infos

This innovative text is the first to introduce practical techniques social workers can use to incorporate social, economic, and environmental justice into their practice. The book emphasizes the role of justice in social work practice across the micro-macro spectrum. By assessing common human needs in relation to human rights, justice, and practice aimed at promoting fairness, students will learn how to incorporate theories and practical perspectives in social work practice with individuals, families, communities, and organizations.With its unique approach, this text focuses on structural oppression and inequities connected to clients' engagement in systems and structures. The impact of disparities on accessing and utilizing resources, and subsequently achieving successful outcomes, is examined through the justice lens. Beginning with an overview of key concepts and theoretical underpinnings that provide foundational knowledge, the text then examines each of the three justice foci --social, economic, and environmental--in detail through specific systems. These systems include criminal justice, education, food security, natural disasters and climate change, health, mental health, housing, and income disparities Throughout the book, readers are asked to reflect on their own perceptions to enhance understanding of the influence of justice on practice. Case studies, diagrams, boxed information, student learning outcomes, chapter summaries, and review questions enhance understanding and application of content. Purchase includes digital access for use on most mobile devices or computers.Key Features:Emphasizes the role of social, economic, and environmental justice in social work practiceExamines the science and theory behind justice as it relates to social workTeaches practical methods for implementing justice-oriented social work practiceAuthored by prominent instructors actively engaged in co-curricular justice-related contentOffers student learning outcomes and summaries in each chapterPresents abundant diagrams and boxes to enhance application of contentProvides multiple experiential learning opportunities including case examples and reflective and knowledge-based review questionsOffers practical examples of justice-informed social workIncludes Instructor's Manual with sample syllabus, PowerPoints, exam questions, and media resources

Inhalt

Chapter 1: Setting the stage for justice driven social work practice

Chapter 2: Theoretical and conceptual underpinnings of justice-informed practice

Chapter 3: Framing Social Work Practice in the Human Rights Context

Chapter 4: Poverty as the great oppressor

Chapter 5: Social and economic disparities within the educational system

Chapter 6: Justice informed social work practice within the criminal justice system

Chapter 7: Health disparities and social justice

Chapter 8: Disparities in Mental Health Services

Chapter 9: Environmental justice and disasters: Social work's role in combating structural inequalities

Chapter 10: Food justice

Chapter 11: Utilizing Policy to Address Unaffordable and Unavailable Housing

Chapter 12: Financial justice and social work practice

Chapter 13: The pervasive influence of economic inequity and income disparity

Chapter 14: Implementing justice driven social work practice

Chapter 15: A call to action: Justice informed social work practice

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.6.2021
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: criminal justice,education,finances,food insecurity,housing,human rights,poverty,social justice,social work practice,social workers
• ISBN-10: 0-8261-3539-0 / 0826135390
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8261-3539-1 / 9780826135391