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1 Tricks of the Trade : How to Think About Your Research While You're Doing It (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)
Howard S. Becker

Current:
9.6
Drawing on more than four decades of experience as a researcher and teacher, Howard Becker now brings to students and researchers the many valuable techniques he has learned. Tricks of the Trade will help students learn how to think ... [more] [Submit]
2 Guide to Selecting and Applying to Master of Social Work Programs, 1999 Edition
Reyes Jesus, Jesus Reyes

Current:
9.6
Required reading for anyone who wants to get an MSW!! The GUIDE TO SELECTING AND APPLYING TO MASTER OF SOCIAL WORK PROGRAMS, 1999 EDITION, tells you what you need to know to work your way through the MSW application process. It starts with ... [more] [Submit]
3 Interviewing for Solutions (Social Work Series)
Peter De Jong, Insoo Kim Berg

Current:
9.5
This exciting book focuses on interviewing skills based on solution-focused therapy, an approach especially suited to today's practice demands in the helping professions. Originally developed by Steve de Shazer, Insoo Kim Berg, and their co ... [more] [Submit]
4 Days in the Lives of Social Workers : 41 Professionals Tell 'Real-Life' Stories from Social Work Practice
Linda M. Grobman

Current:
9.3
DAYS IN THE LIVES OF SOCIAL WORKERS is a collection of first person accounts written by social workers in 50 different settings. The second edition contains all the stories from the first edition, plus 9 additional stories. --This text ... [more] [Submit]
5 Developing Cross-Cultural Competence : A Guide for Working With Children and Their Families
Eleanor W. Lynch, Marci J. Hanson

Current:
9.3
Over twenty-five years and through five editions, Walter I. Trattner's From Poor Law to Welfare State has served as the standard text on the history of welfare policy in the United States. The only comprehensive account of American s ... [more] [Submit]
6 From Poor Law to Welfare State : A History of Social Welfare in America
Walter I. Trattner

Current:
9.2
Over twenty-five years and through five editions, Walter I. Trattner's From Poor Law to Welfare State has served as the standard text on the history of welfare policy in the United States. The only comprehensive account of American s ... [more] [Submit]
7 In the Shadow of the Poorhouse : A Social History of Welfare in America
Michael B. Katz

Current:
9.2
With welfare reform a burning political issue, this special anniversary edition of the classic history of welfare in America has been revised and updated to include the latest bipartisan debates on how to "end welfare as we know it." With a ... [more] [Submit]
8 Where's the Learning in Service-Learning?
Janet Eyler, Dwight E. Giles

Current:
9.1
The directors of two trailblazing research projects fill a critical void in our knowledge on the educational value of service learning. Their findings provide a solid basis for justifying, designing, and implementing effective service learn ... [more] [Submit]
9 Creating Sanctuary : Toward the Evolution of Sane Societies
Sandra L. Bloom

Current:
8.9
Psychiatrist Sandra Bloom interweaves the individual and the social, the personal and the political, by presenting the story of how she and a group of colleagues created a unique psychiatric milieu based on social psychiatric principles. Il ... [more] [Submit]
10 The Call of Service : A Witness to Idealism
Robert Coles

Current:
8.9
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11 Community Organizing and Community Building for Health
Meredith Minkler

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8.9
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12 Turning Stones : My Days and Nights With Children at Risk
Marc Parent(Afterword), Anna Quindlen

Current:
8.8
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13 Careers in Social Work
Leon H. Ginsberg

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8.8
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14 The Challenge of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome : Overcoming Secondary Disabilities
Ann Streissguth

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8.8
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15 The Heart Knows Something Different : Teenage Voices from the Foster Care System : Youth Communication
Al Desetta

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8.8
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16 Social Work Treatment : Interlocking Theoretical Approaches
Francis J. Turner, Eileen L. Younghusband

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8.8
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17 101 Tips for Voluteer Recruitment
Sue Vineyard

Current:
8.7
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18 Ego Psychology and Social Work Practice
Eda G. Goldstein

Current:
8.6
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19 Unfaithful Angels : How Social Work Has Abandoned Its Mission
Harry Specht, Mark E. Courtney

Current:
8.6
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20 Solomon's Sword : Two Families and the Children the State Took Away
Michael Shapiro

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8.6
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21 Welfare's End
Gwendolyn Mink

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8.6
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22 Beyond Banquets, Plaques and Pins : Creative Ways to Recognize Volunteers and Staff
Sue Vineyard

Current:
8.4
The directors of two trailblazing research projects fill a critical void in our knowledge on the educational value of service learning. Their findings provide a solid basis for justifying, designing, and implementing effective service learn ... [more] [Submit]
23 Child Abuse, Domestic Violence, and Animal Abuse: Linking the Circles of Compassion for Prevention and Intervention
Frank Ascione, Phil Arkow

Current:
8.3
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24 Volunteer Management : Mobilizing All the Resources of the Community
Steve McCurley, Rick Lynch

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8.3
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25 Alternatives to Domestic Violence : A Homework Manual for Battering Intervention Groups
Kevin A. Fall

Current:
8.3
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