Interpersonal Violence: The Social Work Response, edited by Tricia B. Bent-Goodley, proposes that it’s important for social staff to know the evolving and chronic panorama of interpersonal violence, together with concurrent victimization, overlapping patterns, and intersections. The ebook encourages a three-pronged strategy, one that’s trauma knowledgeable, culturally responsive, and survivor centered.
Masking a variety of environments during which social staff work with IPV, contributors provide a wide range of modern strategies for working with victims, together with constructed company, antioppressive frameworks, neighborhood engagement, and work with abusive individuals.
In Self-Care in Social Work, by Kathleen Cox and Sue Steiner, the reader is taught tips on how to strategy individually oriented self-care by way of the event of self-awareness, self-regulation, and self-efficacy. On the organizational degree, readers are guided by way of a means of studying about areas of match and mismatch between themselves and their company construction and tradition. The ebook is well timed in that the financial downturn has put strain on businesses to do extra with much less, which in the end results in stress.
Burnout, compassion fatigue, and vicarious trauma are subjects that college students, instructors, practitioners, and directors are involved about. A sensible information to emphasize administration and approaches to self-care, this ebook consists of narratives gathered from each college students and practitioners within the subject. It is a superb useful resource for social staff, counselors, and psychological well being professionals in training.
Previous to 2020, the sector of social work was restricted in its adoption of digital observe. Nevertheless, with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, conventional, in-person service supply was dramatically interrupted. Beforehand at a crossroads, the sector is now experiencing a seemingly unstoppable shift towards trendy technology-mediated types of supply.
Social Work in an Online World, edited by David A. Wilkerson and Liam O’Sullivan, addresses this shift and charts the altering panorama from analog to digital observe in assorted consumer methods, system wants, and system ranges (micro, mezzo, and macro). Going past on-line psychological well being service, which is basically individually centered and synchronously delivered, the authors provide a map of digital social work observe that may be expanded to incorporate help, id, neighborhood motion, training, and psychoeducation.
In Leading and Managing Nonprofit Organizations, editors Richard Edwards and Paul Kurzman have assembled over a dozen college college and subject specialists, offering greatest practices and thought management for turbulent instances.
Core management abilities are introduced into focus by way of the lens of the competing values framework, a metatheoretical mannequin of organizational and managerial effectiveness: boundary-spanning abilities, resembling selling nonprofits to the media and public, managing public coverage advocacy, and creating a profitable fundraising program; and human relations abilities, together with managing human assets, managing conferences, and cultivating a tradition of variety, fairness, and inclusion, amongst others.
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Registration is now open for the 2023 Digital Discussion board: “Environmental Justice: Through the Social Work Lens.” This thrilling occasion will discover how social staff play an essential function in environmental justice and in making a extra sustainable world. Be part of us for this two-day digital occasion, which will likely be held November 1–2, 2023.
