The Road to Social Work and Human Service Practice,
7th Edition

1. Starting the journey: an introduction to social work and human service practice
2. Surveying the landscape: historical and philosophical foundations for practice
3. Locating the lighthouse: values and ethics in practice
4. Treading carefully: professional practice and ethical standards
5. Finding the right maps: the knowledge base of practice
6. Travelling many paths: practice fields and methods
7. Negotiating the maze: the organisational context of practice
8. Plunging in: engagement, assessment, intervention, closure and review (NEW title)
9. Different landscapes: working with oppression and privilege
10. New journeys

• Donna McAuliffe

  Donna McAuliffe is Professor and Academic Lead in the School of Health Sciences and Social Work at Griffith University. Her social work practice experience was in the fields of community development, mental health and legal social work. She now specialises in the teaching and research of professional ethics, with a focus on inter-professional practice, ethical decision-making and codes of ethics. She provides ethics consultation, training and supervision to social work and human service practitioners and management.

• Jennifer Boddy

  Jennifer Boddy is a passionate educator and leading international researcher in environmental social work. Her work is grounded in a commitment to social and environmental justice. Through her research and teaching she seeks to create healthy, sustainable environments and address barriers to accessing education for diverse groups. Coupled with her practice experience as a counsellor and therapeutic caseworker, she has an in-depth understanding of the complexities of people’s environments and their impacts on education, health and wellbeing. Since completing her PhD in 2009, Jennifer has developed a strong scholarly background and publication track record in social work. In that time, she has published over 60 peer-reviewed publications, books chapters, and reports, with a h index of 19. She has led and been involved in partnerships that have obtained almost $1 million in competitive funding, consultancies and other government research funding and she has supervised nine higher degree-by-research students to completion. Jennifer’s recent research is focused on the intersections between domestic violence and climate change and teaching social work in online mediums.

• Lesley Chenoweth

  Lesley worked for more than 25 years as an academic after a long career in human service in the disability and health sectors. Now retired, she continues to engage with research and writing in social work practice, disability and new models and approaches to disadvantage and social exclusion. Lesley has taught numerous courses in social work theory and practice and disability studies over many years. Lesley Chenoweth AO is Emeritus Professor of Social Work at Griffith University, is a consultant to many government and community organisations and now serves on several boards of community organisations.

• NEW author Jennifer Boddy joins this author team to provide an expanded range of expertise and practical experience

• Enhanced layout and NEW full-colour visual design for improved student navigation of the key issues, theories and concepts covered in this valuable resource

• Additional NEW practitioner perspectives join the range of industry professionals who have provided their viewpoints on aspects of practice. Many of these practitioners have also provided NEW video interviews with the authors

• NEW content coverage of the latest on the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW) Code of Ethics 2020 and the AASW Practice Standards (2022), as well as important topics such as environmental and ecological justice, environmental social work and green social work theory and practice, Indigenous knowledge, the impact of knowledge colonisation, updates on all fields of practice especially juvenile justice, and the impacts of COVID-19 and climate change on the profession

• NEW MindTap resources for students including interactive case study quizzes

• Visual chapter overviews provide a brief introduction to each chapter and illustrate the journey that social work and human service practice students are about to embark upon

• Provides comprehensive, practice-oriented coverage of introductory social work and human service practice issues in the Australasian context

• Students conceptualise how the theory relates to real-life contexts with case studies that illustrate the key themes in the chapter

• Students learn from personalised viewpoints on aspects of practice with ‘Practitioner perspectives’ from a range of industry professionals, and ‘Student perspectives’. Extends critical thinking with ‘Client perspectives’, and prompts the reader to consider issues from the service consumer’s point of view

• Students reflect on what they have read and explore the complexities of practice by completing questions in the ‘Activity’ boxes. They can then extend their understanding through the suggested ‘Recommended reading’ boxes throughout the chapters

• Review questions at the end of chapters encourage students to revise and reflect on what they have learned. For instructors: additional case studies spanning multiple chapters of the text show how various topics impact on practice, helping students to apply critical thinking skills to real-life scenarios

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• Instructor website - your #1 resource for your course. This tailored collection of teaching tools includes downloadable PowerPoint lecture slides, Instructor's Manual, additional case studies, Test Bank and artwork. New to this edition are the author videos. The Instructor's Manual is packed with content that helps you set up and administer your class: chapter aims, student tutorial activities, and more. Log in or request an account to access instructor resources at au.cengage.com/instructor/account for Australia or nz.cengage.com/instructor/account for New Zealand.

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