Grand Challenges for Social Work and Society
2nd Edition
Published on 11. July 2022
Book
Hardback
512 pages
978-0-19-760804-3 (ISBN)
Description
The Grand Challenges for Social Work Initiative (GCSWI), which is spearheaded by the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare (AASWSW), represents a major endeavor for the entire field of social work. GCSWI calls for bold innovation and collective action powered by proven and evolving scientific interventions to address critical social issues facing society. The GCSWI aims to identify and find solutions for some of the most persistent social issues, tackling problems such as homelessness, social isolation, mass incarceration, family violence, and economic inequality.
Grand Challenges for Social Work and Society is an edited book that presents the foundations of the GCSWI, laying out the start of the initiative and providing summaries of each of the twelve challenges. The 13 main chapters that form the core of the book, one on each of the Grand Challenges, are written by the primary research teams who are driving each GC project.
The second edition includes updates on the initiatives laid out in the first edition and sets new goals for the next five years. It also includes new information on the Grand Challenge to Eliminate Racism, expanding the social work pipeline, commentaries from leading social work organizations, and how interdisciplinary science can best provide a platform to tackle society's most urgent problems.
This fully updated second edition of Grand Challenges for Social Work and Society is important reading for all practicing social workers.
Grand Challenges for Social Work and Society is an edited book that presents the foundations of the GCSWI, laying out the start of the initiative and providing summaries of each of the twelve challenges. The 13 main chapters that form the core of the book, one on each of the Grand Challenges, are written by the primary research teams who are driving each GC project.
The second edition includes updates on the initiatives laid out in the first edition and sets new goals for the next five years. It also includes new information on the Grand Challenge to Eliminate Racism, expanding the social work pipeline, commentaries from leading social work organizations, and how interdisciplinary science can best provide a platform to tackle society's most urgent problems.
This fully updated second edition of Grand Challenges for Social Work and Society is important reading for all practicing social workers.
More details
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 33 mm
Weight
816 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-760804-3 (9780197608043)
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Schweitzer Classification
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Additional editions
Richard P. Barth | Jill Theresa Messing | Trina R. Shanks
Grand Challenges for Social Work and Society
E-Book
04/2022
2nd Edition
OUP eBook
€27.49
Available for download
Persons
Richard P. Barth, PhD, MSW, is Professor at University of Maryland School of Social Work and Chair, Grand Challenges for Social Work Executive Committee
Jill Theresa Messing, PhD, MSW, is Professor at School of Social Work at Arizona State University
Trina R. Shanks, PhD, is Harold R. Johnson Collegiate Professor of Social Work, Director of Community Engagement at University of Michigan School of Social Work
James Herbert Williams, PhD, MSW, is Arizona Centennial Professor of Social Welfare Services School of Social Work at Arizona State University
Jill Theresa Messing, PhD, MSW, is Professor at School of Social Work at Arizona State University
Trina R. Shanks, PhD, is Harold R. Johnson Collegiate Professor of Social Work, Director of Community Engagement at University of Michigan School of Social Work
James Herbert Williams, PhD, MSW, is Arizona Centennial Professor of Social Welfare Services School of Social Work at Arizona State University
Editor
ProfessorProfessor, University of Maryland School of Social Work
ProfessorProfessor, School of Social Work, Arizona State University
Harold R. Johnson Collegiate Professor of Social WorkHarold R. Johnson Collegiate Professor of Social Work, University of Michigan
Arizona Centennial Professor of Social Welfare ServicesArizona Centennial Professor of Social Welfare Services, School of Social Work, Arizona State University
Content
CONTENTS
About the Editors
About the Contributors
Grand Challenges for Social Work Initiative
1. Introduction and Updates on the Grand Challenges
2. Ensuring Healthy Development for Youth by Unleashing the Power of Prevention: An Update on Progress and Priorities
3. Close the Health Gap
4. Building Healthy Relationships to End Violence: Broadening the Vision of the Stop Family Violence Grand Challenge
5. Advance Long and Productive Lives
6. Eradicate Social Isolation
7. End Homelessness
8. Create Social Responses to a Changing Environment
9. Harness Technology for Social Good
10. Promote Smart Decarceration
11. Reduce Extreme Economic Inequality
12. Build Financial Capability and Assets for All
13. Achieve Equal Opportunity and Justice
14. Eliminate Racism
15. Conclusion
Commentaries
Framing the Social Policy Agenda for the Future
Appendix 1: Grand Challenges Network Co-Leads
Appendix 2: Sustaining Sponsors of Grand Challenges for Social Work
Appendix 3: Grand Challenges for Social Work: Vision, Mission, Domain, Guiding Principles, & Guideposts to Action
Appendix 4: Progress and Plans for the Grand Challenges
Index
About the Editors
About the Contributors
Grand Challenges for Social Work Initiative
1. Introduction and Updates on the Grand Challenges
2. Ensuring Healthy Development for Youth by Unleashing the Power of Prevention: An Update on Progress and Priorities
3. Close the Health Gap
4. Building Healthy Relationships to End Violence: Broadening the Vision of the Stop Family Violence Grand Challenge
5. Advance Long and Productive Lives
6. Eradicate Social Isolation
7. End Homelessness
8. Create Social Responses to a Changing Environment
9. Harness Technology for Social Good
10. Promote Smart Decarceration
11. Reduce Extreme Economic Inequality
12. Build Financial Capability and Assets for All
13. Achieve Equal Opportunity and Justice
14. Eliminate Racism
15. Conclusion
Commentaries
Framing the Social Policy Agenda for the Future
Appendix 1: Grand Challenges Network Co-Leads
Appendix 2: Sustaining Sponsors of Grand Challenges for Social Work
Appendix 3: Grand Challenges for Social Work: Vision, Mission, Domain, Guiding Principles, & Guideposts to Action
Appendix 4: Progress and Plans for the Grand Challenges
Index