Part I
Chapter 1: Introduction: Background, Themes, and Goals
Chapter 2: Alternative Concepts of Social Justice
Chapter 3: Social Justice and the Social Work Profession
Chapter 4: Theories and Concepts Underlying Socially Just
Practice
Part II
Chapter 5: Social Justice and Individual and Family Change
By Charles D. Garvin and Edith Lewis
Chapter 6: Socially Just Group Work Practice
By Charles D. Garvin and Robert M. Ortega
Chapter 7: Socially Just Organizational Practice
Chapter 8: Working with Communities to Promote Social Justice
Chapter 9: Creating and Implementing Socially Just Policies
Chapter 10: Socially Just Research and Evaluation
Glossary
References
Index
Michael Reisch, PhD, is the Daniel Thursz Distinguished Professor
of Social Justice at the University of Maryland School of Social
Work. He has published and lectured widely on such topics as
poverty and inequality, welfare reform, the history and philosophy
of social welfare, and contemporary social policy, and held
leadership positions in numerous advocacy, professional, and social
change organizations. In 2013, he was named "Social Work
Educator
of the Year" by the Maryland Chapter of NASW and, in 2014, he
received the "Teacher of the Year" award from the University of
Maryland Baltimore and the Significant Lifetime Achievement Award
from the Council on
Social Work Education.
Charles Garvin, PhD, AM, received his Master's degree in Social
Work in 1951 and PhD in Social Work from the University of Chicago
in 1968. He was a professor of social work at the University of
Michigan from 1965 until he became Professor Emeritus in 2002. He
is the author of numerous texts and over 100 articles and book
chapters on social work, social work education, group work, social
work practice, and research. His current work deals with
integrating the concept of social
justice into all social work activities. In 2013, he received the
Significant Lifetime Achievement Award from the Council on Social
Work Education.
"Reisch and Garvin have provided us with a timely and exciting
exploration of this foundation of social work - its definitions,
history, and theoretical underpinnings. Furthermore, the book
tackles the critical issues for practice--how to recognize the
processes of inequalities and injustices and how to be a skilled
social justice practitioner juggling the complex and dialectic
nature of competing agendas and ideas... This is a must-read for
all social workers
and those in social policy and social welfare aspiring to drive
social change in an unequal world."
--Lesley Chenoweth, FFACSW, PhD, MSW, Pro Vice Chancellor and Head,
Logan Campus, Griffith University
"Social Work and Social Justice is a tour-de-force that will
empower students with knowledge and skills to move from reading
about social justice to practicing it. Reisch and Garvin, two of
the profession's most valuable scholar/activists, prepare students
for socially just client engagement as well as social justice
practice with communities, strategic policy practice, and
innovative strategies and methods for socially just research and
evaluation.
This remarkable book is accessible and erudite. It is unparalleled
in the field."
--Marie Weil, DSW, MSW, Berg-Beach Professor of Community Practice,
UNC-Chapel Hill; Founding Editor of The Journal of Community
Practice
"At last a book that seamlessly connects social justice frameworks
to the pragmatics of social work practice at multiple levels, from
individuals and families to organizations and policy. To their
great credit, Michael Reisch, Charles Garvin, and their colleagues
have produced a scholarly text that at the same time is eminently
practical. Accessible without being reductionist, the book robustly
presents a diverse range of theoretical and conceptual
perspectives
on social justice, both non-Western and Western. Testament to the
deep knowledge and expertise of its authors, this valuable book is
at once comprehensive, inclusive, and coherent. It is both a
significant teaching and practice resource, and a very welcome
addition to the applied social justice literature."
--Susan P. Kemp, PhD, Charles O. Cressey Endowed Professor,
University of Washington School of Social Work
"Reisch and Garvin have produced one of the most comprehensive and
complex books for social work educators and scholars. It spans the
spectrum of required social work curriculum competencies
challenging critical thinkers to unpack concepts including human
rights and cultural competency from both historic and contemporary
lenses... It is a thick and deep book that provides rich
information on the religious and philosophical principles that are
at the core of
social work, well beyond the traditional presentation. At the same
time, the authors exhort educators and researchers to analyze their
own assumptions and those of their students, colleagues, and
practitioners at the individual, family, group, community,
organizational, and policy levels."
--Terry Mizrahi, PhD, MSW, Professor, Silberman School of Social
Work at Hunter College; former President of the National
Association of Social Workers
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