Social Economic and Environmental Justice: Building Social Work Practice Skills 1st Edition

This innovative text is the first to introduce practical techniques social workers can use to incorporate social, economic, and environmental justice into their practice. The book emphasizes the role of justice in social work practice across the micro-macro spectrum. By assessing common human needs in relation to human rights, justice, and practice aimed at promoting fairness, students will learn how to incorporate theories and practical perspectives in social work practice with individuals, families, communities, and organizations.With its unique approach, this text focuses on structural oppression and inequities connected to clients’ engagement in systems and structures. The impact of disparities on accessing and utilizing resources, and subsequently achieving successful outcomes, is examined through the justice lens. Beginning with an overview of key concepts and theoretical underpinnings that provide foundational knowledge, the text then examines each of the three justice foci -social, economic, and environmental-in detail through specific systems. These systems include criminal justice, education, food security, natural disasters and climate change, health, mental health, housing, and income disparities Throughout the book, readers are asked to reflect on their own perceptions to enhance understanding of the influence of justice on practice. Case studies, diagrams, boxed information, student learning outcomes, chapter summaries, and review questions enhance understanding and application of content.Social, Economic, and Environmental Justice: Building Social Work Practice Skills 1st Edition is written by Kalea Benner, Ph D, MSW, LCSW; Diane Loeffler, Ph D, MSW; Natalie Pope, Ph D, MSW, LCSW and published by Springer Publishing Company. ISBNs for Social, Economic, and Environmental Justice are 9780826135391, 0826135390 and the print ISBNs are 9780826135384, 0826135382.