Introduction to Social Work and Social Welfare - Hardcover

Reseña del editor

In this revision of his best-selling text, Charles Zastrow has added much that is new, including a conceptual framework for generalist practice; up-to-date illustrations of current social problems; a fresh new two-color design (featuring new photos, new illustrations, and new cartoons); and many new topics. These topics include social work values and ethics, diversity, promotion of social and economic justice, populations-at-risk, social work practice with organizations, feminist perspectives on intervention, health care reform, recent welfare reform proposals, illegal immigration issues, physician-assisted suicide, DSM-IV categories of mental illness, crack babies, anabolic steroids, and much more.

Reseña del editor

In this revision of his best-selling text, Charles Zastrow offers students a social problems approach that describes how people are affected by such issues as poverty, child abuse, emotional difficulties, sexism, alcoholism, crime, AIDS, physical and mental disabilities, racism, overpopulation, and sexual dysfunction. As students become familiar with these social problems, they develop a meaningful context for the book's coverage of current social services. Throughout the text, Zastrow covers controversial, contemporary issues in social welfare.

Zastrow includes case examples that help readers identify with people in need of help, as well as case examples that bring to life the roles and responsibilities, gratifications, and frustrations experienced by social work professionals to help students get a realistic sense of what it's like to be a social worker. Students will appreciate Zastrow's practical coverage of how to counsel individuals, how to work with groups, how to develop new services, and how to improve existing community services.

The Sixth Edition includes new illustrations of current social problems. For example, in the chapter on crime (Chapter 8), Zastrow uses the O.J. Simpson case to illustrate "Murder and the Fall of an American Hero".