Social Work
Social work is an academic discipline and practice-based profession that concerns itself with individuals, families, groups, communities and society as a whole in an effort to meet basic needs and enhance social functioning, self-determination, collective responsibility, and overall well-being. Social functioning is defined as the ability of an individual to perform their social roles within their own self, their immediate social environment, and the society at large. Social work applies social sciences, such as sociology, psychology, political science, public health, community development, law, and economics, to engage with client systems, conduct assessments, and develop interventions to solve social problems, personal …
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RAND Corporation · 11 November 2024 English
The authors of this report analyze data from the American Community Survey, providing valuable context for understanding the social and economic resource environment of veterans and their families and identifying …
Implications for School-Based Social Work Support,” Smith College Studies in Social Work, Vol. 92, No. 4, 2022 …
WHO: World Health Organization · 8 November 2024 English
vii, 25 p., This report supports activities currently underway to reduce the burden of environment-related disease on the health of the population of Kosovo[1] and create a more resilient society …
sanitary hygiene; preventive pediatrics; medical social work; health promotion; health education; air-quality …
World Bank Group · 7 November 2024 English
Croatia is a high-income country with solid macroeconomic fundamentals, which has contributed to the country’s accelerated income convergence with the rest of the EU in recent years. The sustained inflow …
Persons with Disabilities and the Institute for Social Work - as well as representatives from the private …
Theos Think Tank · 6 November 2024 English
RE occupies an unusual place in the school this labour will be felt not only in the formation of individuals and communities, curriculum: it is included in the basic curriculum, …
or their careers—in government, healthcare, social work, education, high as workplace diversity increases: …
Demos (UK) · 6 November 2024 English
The drawback of this is that it is fundamentally disempowering to begin a relational service with an exclusive focus on the deficits of the person seeking support, and the expertise …
creating better relationships Research in adult social work found that social workers using strengths-based …
World Bank Group · 6 November 2024 English
that it can be rolled out to all Centers for Social Work; and (b) actively engage with the working group … Demography and Youth (MSPDY)1 and the Centers for Social Work. The Project Management Unit (PMU) will be working …
Urban Institute · 5 November 2024 English
The Five-City Equitable Development Workforce Pilot (Five-City Pilot) brought together five equity-focused infrastructure-reuse projects for three years with the goal of developing a scalable, replicable workforce-training model to ensure neighborhood …
student-support staff person with a background in social work, who may be better equipped than trainers to …
World Bank Group · 4 November 2024 French
Credit No: IDA / 62390 Executing Agency(ies): Unite de Gestion du Projet WURI- Ministere de l'Emploi et de la Protection Sociale … WORKS Activity Reference No. / Description Loan / Credit N o. …
NIESR: National Institute of Economic and Social Research · 4 November 2024 English
A quarterly forecast on the UK economic outlook from the National Institute of Economic and Social Research. The document examines the wider macro-economic context, as well as the implications on …
steam & air conditioning supply Human health & social work activities Manufacturing Arts entertainment & … security (O), Education (P) and Human Health and Social Work activities (Q). Private non-traded services sector …
NBER: National Bureau of Economic Research · 1 November 2024 English
Studies of racial discrimination often condition on endogenous measures of race or on earlier decisions that might themselves be affected by discrimination. We develop quasi-experimental tools for estimating the impact …
peter_hull@brown.edu Joseph P. Ryan School of Social Work University of Michigan 1080 South University …
