Social Welfare in Canada, 4th Edition
Social Welfare in Canada, 4th Edition

Author: Steven Hick

Publisher:

Published: 2021-04-15

Total Pages: 544

ISBN-13: 9781550772814

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The ?social safety net? created in Canada after World War II faced serious challenges from the early 1980s onwards. Neoliberal economic policies pursued by successive federal and provincial governments left many groups of people ? especially those in precarious work, women, racialized minorities, older individuals and Indigenous communities ? highly vulnerable and seriously under-protected. Social justice and full equality can come about only if systemic barriers such as these are acknowledged and completely eliminated. About This Edition This edition focuses on the transformative social policies and universal programs that are needed to promote personal and social well-being and ensure full equality of opportunity for all. Social workers at home and abroad are committed to building inclusive communities, promoting participatory democracy, fighting racism, and actively addressing the problems of economic sustainability, and climate change. The social work profession provides an excellent opportunity to join with health care professionals and others to bring about the fundamental changes necessary to ensure full inclusion, equity and social justice, and a safer and prosperous future.

Social Welfare in Canada
Social Welfare in Canada

Author: Steven F. Hick

Publisher: Thompson Educational Pub

Published: 2002-01-02

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 9781550771398

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Social Welfare in Canada provides an overview of the income security system in Canada, its development, programs, and the major policy debates. It is intended for those seeking an understanding of the many income security programs and policies, how they fit together, and how they work (or fail to work) in practice. This volume on income security is a companion to Social Work in Canada (also by Steve Hick), which focuses on the social services side of the Canadian welfare system. Together, the two books provide a comprehensive survey of the two components of the welfare system, the wide-ranging policy debates taking place over the role that the welfare system should play, and the many challenges facing it today.

Health Promotion in Canada
Health Promotion in Canada

Author: Irving Rootman

Publisher: Canadian Scholars

Published: 2017-11-10

Total Pages: 516

ISBN-13: 1773380060

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Health Promotion in Canada is a comprehensive profile of the history, current status, and future of health promotion in Canada. This fourth edition maintains the critical approach of the previous three editions but provides a current and in-depth analysis of theory, practice, policy, and research in Canada in relation to recent innovative approaches in health promotion. Thoroughly updated with 15 new chapters and all-new learning objectives, the edited collection contains contributions by prominent Canadian academics, researchers, and practitioners as well as an afterword by Ronald Labonté. The authors cover a broad range of topics including inequities in health, Indigenous communities and immigrants, mental health, violence against women, global ecological change, and globalization. The book also provides critical reflections on practice and concrete Canadian examples that bring theory to life.

One Hundred Years of Social Work
One Hundred Years of Social Work

Author: Therese Jennissen

Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

Published: 2011-02-17

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 1554582806

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One Hundred Years of Social Work is the first comprehensive history of social work as a profession in English Canada. Organized chronologically, it provides a critical and compelling look at the internal struggles and debates in the social work profession over the course of a century and investigates the responses of social workers to several important events. A central theme in the book is the long-standing struggle of the professional association (the Canadian Association of Social Workers) and individual social workers to reconcile advancement of professional status with the promotion social action. The book chronicles the early history of the secularization and professionalization of social work and examines social workers roles during both world wars, the Depression, and in the era of postwar reconstruction. It includes sections on civil defence, the Cold War, unionization, social work education, regulation of the profession, and other key developments up to the end of the twentieth century. Drawing on extensive archival research as well as personal interviews and secondary literature, the authors provide strong academic evidence of a profession that has endured many important changes and continues to advocate for a just society and a responsive social welfare state. One Hundred Years of Social Work will be of interest to social workers, social work students and educators, social historians, professional associations and anyone interested in understanding the complex nature of people and institutions.

Choices
Choices

Author: Bob Shebib

Publisher: Pearson Education Canada

Published: 2013-02-15

Total Pages: 449

ISBN-13: 0133098966

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Helping students develop professional counselling competency. The preferred text in its discipline, Choices: Interview and Counselling Skills for Canadians,is a practical guide that helps Canadian professionals develop the knowledge, abilities, and attitudes required for effective interviewing and counselling. It strives to help students gain a wide range of skills based on supported theory and evidence-based best practices. Readable, student-friendly, and jargon-free, Choices is appropriate for students from numerous disciplines including social work, youth justice, child and youth care counselling, addictions, psychology, teaching, general nursing, and psychiatric nursing. Note: MySearchLab is not included with the purchase of this product.

Community Development in Canada
Community Development in Canada

Author: Jason Brown

Publisher:

Published: 2011-02-15

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9780205754700

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Community Development in Canada, Second Edition teaches you how to be successful in working with communities such as seniors clubs, youth centres, First Nations drop-in centres, or employment centres for homeless people. This text features selected case studies from each province and territory to illustrate principles of community practice, and discusses development in Aboriginal and international communities and the future of community development and social welfare in Canada. The Second Edition has been fully updated with current research, statistics, and case studies. It also contains new content on the social determinants of health, the relationship between physical and mental health, and community economic development.