Introduction to Social Work

An Advocacy-Based Profession

NEW TO THIS EDITION:

• The Third Edition is available as a digital option through SAGE Vantage, an intuitive digital platform that offers auto-graded assignments and interactive multimedia tools—including video—all designed to enable students to better prepare for class.
• New and updated contemporary topics involving social work advocacy and political action at the federal level, especially in the area of health care reform, help readers examine the changes that occur when leadership shifts in the United States.
• Increased attention to ethics includes the need to consider dilemmas and applying ethical considerations in social work practice.
• Additional person-first language throughout makes the material more accessible to readers.
• Enhanced content on the intersections of diversity and multicultural practice reflects today’s increasingly diverse world.
• Additional coverage of substance use and addiction services gives attention to growing areas of concern in social work.

• A unique advocacy framework explores the signature roots of the social work profession, its history, key figures, practice settings, policies, and the type of work performed on individual, group, community, local, state, national, and international levels.
• A theme of inter-professional education and practice is integrated throughout and illustrated within various case vignettes.
• A grid of the Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards (EPAS) within the preface serves as an easy reference to the accreditation requirements set forth by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE).
• Reflective practice and Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards (EPAS) are integrated throughout.  
• Social Work in Action, Spotlight on Advocacy and Current Trends boxes provide applied examples of social workers' transformative opportunities and contributions in confronting complicated life situations.
• Time to Think features ask students to reflect on their own experiences in relation to the chapter to make content easier to retain.
• Your Career sections introduce potential career paths for future social workers.
• Robust in-text pedagogy includes learning objectives, chapter summaries, discussion questions, and exercises for mastering the material.