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Challenges in Human Rights: A Social Work Perspective
Elisabeth Reichert (Ed.)
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Description for Challenges in Human Rights: A Social Work Perspective
Hardback. By using human rights as a guidepost, social workers can help create social welfare policies that better serve societal needs. Bringing together essays from a diverse range of authors, this title demonstrates how approaching social work from a human rights perspective can affect legislation, resource management, and enforcement of policies. Editor(s): Reichert, Elisabeth. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: JKSN; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 231. Weight in Grams: 544.
By using human rights as a guidepost, social workers can help create social welfare policies that better serve societal needs. However, in applying human rights to contemporary situations, social workers often encounter challenges that require thinking outside the box. Bringing together provocative essays from a diverse range of authors, Elisabeth Reichert demonstrates how approaching social work from a human rights perspective can profoundly affect legislation, resource management, and enforcement of policies. Topics include the reconciliation of cultural relativism with universal human rights; the debate over whether human rights truly promote economic and social development or simply allow economically developed societies ... Read more
By using human rights as a guidepost, social workers can help create social welfare policies that better serve societal needs. However, in applying human rights to contemporary situations, social workers often encounter challenges that require thinking outside the box. Bringing together provocative essays from a diverse range of authors, Elisabeth Reichert demonstrates how approaching social work from a human rights perspective can profoundly affect legislation, resource management, and enforcement of policies. Topics include the reconciliation of cultural relativism with universal human rights; the debate over whether human rights truly promote economic and social development or simply allow economically developed societies ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231137201
SKU
V9780231137201
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About Elisabeth Reichert (Ed.)
Elisabeth Reichert is a professor at the Southern Illinois University of Carbondale School of Social Work and is the author of two previous books on human rights.
Reviews for Challenges in Human Rights: A Social Work Perspective
A lively and serious contribution to social work education, and remarkably timely... Highly recommended. Choice An inspirational book, pleading social workers to use human rights as a guidepost. European Journal of Social Work