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A01=Stephen Perez
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Social Work Practice and the Law: Becoming a Collaborative and Critically Competent Practitioner

Based on the author's innovative and nationally recognized prototype for inter-professional work at Fordham University, this is the only volume about social work and the legal system that is written from the social worker's perspective. Devoid of legalese, the book is designed to help social workers develop the ability to reappraise, question, and challenge the law to best serve their clients. It aims to promote the development of a more strategic relationship with the legal system-a partnership that can achieve more creative and just solutions to social problems.

Exhaustive in scope, Social Work and the Law identifies current national and international trends and legal movements that support and invite inter-professional, critically competent social work participation. The book also identifies and explains the essential knowledge, skills, values, and attitudes necessary for the attainment of collaborative critical competence when interacting with the legal system. Each chapter includes vivid case studies based on actual collaborations that illustrate the application of theory to practice. Chapters also include legal, social work, and evidence-based resources.

Key Features

  • Promotes a proactive approach to the ways in which social workers can use law to promote clients' best interests
  • Addresses all domains of social work practice-child welfare, housing law, educational access, disability law, benefits, and more
  • Offers abundant case studies taken from the authors' real-life work
  • Devoid of legalese and written from a social worker's perspective

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Product Details
  • Weight: 760g
  • Publication Date: 30 Oct 2011
  • Publisher: Springer Publishing Co Inc
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780826117663

About Arthur O'SullivanKara R. FinckLyn K. SlaterStephen PerezSteven Sheffrin

Lyn Slater MSW PhD is Clinical Associate Professor at the Fordham University Graduate School of Social Services and Adjunct Professor of Law at the Fordham University School of Law. She currently co-teaches Interdisciplinary Approaches to Child Abuse and Neglect for graduate level law and social work students with a practicing attorney. She was the Supervising Social Worker at the Family Advocacy Clinic Fordham University School of Law for ten years. She has presented extensively at legal education conferences regarding inter-professional practice. In previous positions she served as director of the Child Sexual Abuse Project at Lawyers for Children (NY); and Consultant The Bronx Defenders and Legal Services of New York. ||Kara Finck JD is the Managing Attorney of the Family Defense Practice at The Bronx Defenders a nonprofit with over 140 criminal and civil attorneys social workers parent advocates investigators administrative staff and community programmers. She is also an Adjunct Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law. Past positions include: Associate Planner at the Vera Institute of Justice and at The Bronx Defenders as a Planner overseeing community outreach and youth programs; law clerk for the Honorable Reginald Lindsay in the Federal District Court of Massachusetts; Skadden Fellow at The Door's Legal Services Center representing young people in foster care.

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