Human Rights and Social Justice

Human Rights and Social Justice Social Action and Service for the Helping and Health Professions

SAGE Publications, Inc
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Contents
 
Foreward
 
Preface
 
PART I: HUMAN RIGHTS AS THE BEDROCK OF SOCIAL JUSTICE
 
Ch 1. Introduction
Rationale for this Work

 
Toward the Creation of a Human Rights Culture

 
The Importance of Words

 
Five Core Notions of Human Rights

 
Social Justice as Struggle

 
Some Initial Provisos for the Human Rights Defender

 
Summary

 
 
Ch 2. Before and Beyond the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Toward a History of the Idea of Human Rights

 
Human Rights in Antiquity

 
The Middle Ages

 
The Renaissance

 
Age of Enlightenment

 
Age of Industrialization

 
Select Input Prior to the Endorsement of the Universal Declaration

 
Select Major International Human Rights Initiatives

 
Select Core Principles of Some Major Human Rights Documents

 
Other Human Rights Regimes

 
Implementation

 
Summary

 
 
PART II: BUILDING FROM THE FOUNDATION
 
Ch 3. An Advanced Generalist/Public Health Model and Whole Population Approach to Human Rights and Social Justice
A Helping and Health Profession Model of Intervention

 
Levels of Intervention

 
The Struggle to Implement Levels of Intervention

 
Education Toward the Creation of a Human Rights Culture

 
Commemorating Major International Days

 
Proclamations, Resolutions, Declarations, and Bills

 
Providing NGO Input: Statement of IFSW

 
The Arts, Human Rights, and Social Justice

 
Other Select Direct Nonviolent Strategies

 
Summary

 
 
Ch 4. At-risk and Clinical Social Action and Service Strategies Toward the Creation of a Human Rights Culture
The Helping and Health Professions as an At-risk Group

 
Business and Human Rights

 
Humanistic Administration

 
Social Entrepreneurship

 
Grant Writing

 
Principles for the Protection of Persons with Mental Illness

 
Toward a Socially Just Human Rights Based Approach to Clinical Intervention

 
Human Rights Principles Which Have Implications for the Therapeutic Relationship

 
Some Words on the Meta-Micro

 
Summary

 
 
Ch 5. A Human Rights/Social Justice Approach to Research-Action Projects for the Helping and Health Professions
Human Rights Documents as a Way to Define the Problem

 
Toward a Culture of Informed Consent

 
Quantitative Research

 
Qualitative Research

 
Research as Leading to Social Action

 
Summary

 
 
Ch 6. Ground Rules
Toward the Paradoxical Commandments

 
Some Ground Rules for Social Action and Service

 
Conclusion

 
 
Glossary
 
Media Resources
 
Appendix I: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
 
Appendix II: Select Portions of Major Human Rights Documents
 
Index
 
About the Author
 
Foreword
Independent Customer Reviews

Aimed at not only scholars and students, but also for health professionals.... [it] is well written, useful, and has alot of information about human rights that is generally not known or easily available.... Some interesting nd novel aspects of the book are the sections on Questions for Discussion and Activities/Actions at the end of each chapter meant for helping students to understand human rights not only in theory but also t get a better grasp from a practical point of view.

Ravi Bhatia
Gandhi Marg, Volume 32 (2), July-September 2010, p. 218.

Was not the best fit for the course. Too social action oriented. Were looking for something that better highlighted human rights issues.

Dr Gina Bowlin
Sociology Geo Social Work Dept, University Of The Cumberlands
June 3, 2015
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Very good, an excellent resource for assignments

Miss Hilary Blackwell
Access to HE, Canterbury College
June 13, 2014
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To be used as supplemental text

Dr Cheryl Jones
Community Hlth Preven Med Dept, Morehouse School of Medicine
June 3, 2013
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The book fit the needs for the course and the instructor's goals for student learning.

Mrs Michele Ury Foist
Social Work Division, University of Wyoming
October 30, 2012
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Contributors: 

Joseph M. Wronka

Dr. Joseph Wronka is Professor of Social Work, Springfield College, Springfield, MA, Representative to the United Nations in Geneva for the International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW) and part-time representative for the People’s Movement for Human Rights Learning to the UN in New York. He is also President of Human Rights Action International (HRAI).  Dr. Wronka  received a Fulbright Senior Specialist award, in the discipline of social work with specialities in social justice and poverty and sub specialities in human rights, psychology, and existential-phenomenology. In 2015 he went to Pakistan and Austria as a Fulbright Scholar. Select academic appointments included: West Georgia College, St. Francis College, New York University, Caldwell College, Ramapo College, Chukchi Community College, the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Kotzebue Technical Center, College of the Holy Cross, Simmons, Boston College, and in Europe, Fachhochschule  at Berne and Zurich, Switzerland; Vienna, Sankt-Poelton, and Innsbruck, Austria; and Hanover, Germany. He was also Visiting Scholar at Brandeis University and Visiting Fellow at the University of Delhi, India. He was also a counselor at alcoholism and methadone maintenance treatment centers; clinician in  community mental health centers and in private practice; director of a mental health/substance abuse center; human rights commissioner; Vice President of the World Citizen Foundation; board member to the Coalition for a Strong United Nations and Amherst Media, where he is presently producer of “Creating a Human Rights Culture”.  His website is:  www.humanrightsculture.org

          Published widely in scholarly and popular fora, he has presented his work in roughly eighteen countries. His interest is primarily the development of social change strategies to implement human rights principles, in other words, the creation of a human rights culture which he views as the pillars of social justice.  Such principles mirror substantively millennia of teaching in various spiritual and ethical belief systems, which assert ultimately that every person, everywhere ought to be guaranteed their human rights, and live with human dignity and to their potential, without discrimination. At times, he refers to himself as an “adventure junkie.” He also likes to travel, swim laps; kayak; fish; ride his bike; and play classical music on the piano and concert and ethnic pieces on the accordion.