Disability and Social Work Education: Practice and Policy Issues

In Disability and Social Work Education: Practice and Policy Issues, leading social work experts provide insightful, effective analyses and strategies that address current practice and policy issues affecting social work with individuals with disabilities. Incorporating diverse perspectives, the authors address the challenges inherent in obtaining services within various systems such as education, religion, employment, social services and mental health services. This book will broaden and deepen the skill, knowledge and value bases of social work practice with populations with disabilities. They include individuals who are deaf, blind, have mobility challenges, mental and physical illness and children with special needs. This creative resource offers social work educators, students, and practitioners diverse and creative ways to integrate a generalist social work approach with their work with individuals with disabilities and the systems they must negotiate. Chapters include extensive resources, appendixes, tables and figures to clearly illustrate topics. Book jacket.