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Social Work
Featured titles in Social Work
- Experienced community organizer and professor Patricia Spindel provides a practical guide for producing change through community action and social activism in the updated second edition of Changing Communities. Spindel explores who has power in society and how communities can ... more
- Taking a unique look at health promotion and aging in Canada, this edited collection uses the action framework in the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion to explore the factors and issues related to the health of older adults. The book is organized around the five action areas... more
Promoting the Health of Older Adults
The Canadian Experience
Irving Rootman, Peggy Edwards, Mélanie Levasseur, Frances Grunberg
- Poverty, Mental Health, and Social Inclusion offers a comprehensive selection of chapters written by academic researchers as well as direct practitioners and mental health consumer-survivors to examine the intersection of poverty, mental health, and social exclusion. With the ... more
Poverty, Mental Health, and Social Inclusion
Cheryl Forchuk, Rick Csiernik
- In its second edition, this accessible health and human services manual offers a critical overview of the issues and challenges that families face and provides practical strategies for promoting resilience and positive family functioning. Through clinical and sociological pers... more
Working with Families, Second Edition
A Guide for Health and Human Services Professionals
Patricia Spindel
- September 2018
- 9781773380582
- $69.95 Print
- $64.95 Digital
- August 2018
- 9781773380858
- $61.95 Print
- $56.95 Digital
Indigenous Research
Theories, Practices, and Relationships
Deborah McGregor, Jean-Paul Restoule, Rochelle Johnston
- August 2018
- 9781773380278
- $49.95 Print
- $44.95 Digital
- July 2018
- 9781773380704
- $39.95 Print
- $34.95 Digital
- May 2018
- 9781773380520
- $67.95 Print
- $62.95 Digital
The Drug Paradox
An Introduction to the Sociology of Psychoactive Substances in Canada
Tara Bruno, Rick Csiernik
- August 2017
- 9781551309798
- $52.95 Print
- $47.95 Digital
Reimagining Anti-Oppression Social Work Practice
Samantha Wehbi, Henry Parada
- August 2017
- 9781551309767
- $52.95 Print
- $47.95 Digital
Reimagining Anti-Oppression Social Work Research
Henry Parada, Samantha Wehbi
- April 2017
- 9781551309330
- $77.95 Print
- $72.95 Digital
Responding to the Oppression of Addiction, Third Edition
Canadian Social Work Perspectives
Rick Csiernik, William S. Rowe
- January 2017
- 9781551309156
- $76.95 Print
- $71.95 Digital
- December 2016
- 9781551309392
- $67.95 Print
- $62.95 Digital
Sociology of Home
Belonging, Community, and Place in the Canadian Context
Gillian Anderson, Joseph G. Moore, Laura Suski
- August 2016
- 9781551309064
- $89.95 Print
- $84.95 Digital
A Concise Introduction to Mental Health in Canada, Second Edition
Elliot Goldner, Emily Jenkins, Dan Bilsker
- August 2016
- 9781551309422
- $60.95 Print
- $55.95 Digital
Strong Helpers' Teachings, Second Edition
The Value of Indigenous Knowledges in the Helping Professions
Cyndy Baskin
- August 2016
- 9781551309125
- $66.95 Print
- $61.95 Digital
- May 2016
- 9781551308975
- $91.95 Print
- $86.95 Digital
- April 2016
- 9780889615823
- $52.95 Print
- $47.95 Digital
Women and Genocide
Gendered Experiences of Violence, Survival, and Resistance
JoAnn DiGeorgio-Lutz, Donna Gosbee
- December 2015
- 9781551308852
- $91.95 Print
- $86.95 Digital
- September 2015
- 9781551308821
- $67.95 Print
- $62.95 Digital
Research as Resistance, Second Edition
Revisiting Critical, Indigenous, and Anti-Oppressive Approaches
Leslie Brown, Susan Strega
- July 2015
- 9781551307268
- $69.95 Print
- $64.95 Digital