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Encyclopedias
These are useful for succinct overviews or background information on an issue.
- Encyclopedia of Social Work This link opens in a new windowEncyclopedia of Social Work is a continuously updated online collaboration between the National Association of Social Workers and Oxford University Press. It includes over 800 articles that cover every facet of social work policy and practice, brief biographies of over 200 key figures in social work history, and references and links to related social work resources. Encyclopedia of Social Work is regularly updated with new and revised articles.
- SAGE Knowledge This link opens in a new windowSAGE Knowledge offers subject encyclopedias and reference works, mainly in the social sciences and business management.
- Gale eBooks This link opens in a new windowScholarly encyclopedias and reference works on a wide variety of topics: business, ASCD publications in education, environment, history, law, literature, medicine, sciences, and the social sciences. Formerly named Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL).
- Encyclopedia of Child Abuse3rd ed., 2007. Available online through EBSCO eBooks
Handbooks, Dictionaries, etc.
- The Complete Guide to Social Work: Independent Study for the ASWB Clinical/Advanced Generalist ExaminationsWe also have study guides for the Bachelors and Masters examinations; all are on reserve at our Circulation Desk.
- The Social Work Dictionary6th edition (2014). Older circulating editions are also available.
- Social Workers' Desk Reference2nd edition. "The most recent conceptual knowledge and empirical evidence to aid ... understanding of social work practice and to guide social work interventions ..."
Social Work Reference Sources
The Blackwell Companion to Social Work
Entirely new sections on theory and practice, including innovative standalone essays on social work theory.
Encyclopedia of Social Problems
These two volumes cover all of the major theories, approaches, and contemporary issues in social problems and also provide insight into how social conditions get defined as social problems.
Encyclopedia of Social Welfare History in North America
Topics include child welfare, economic conditions and social welfare, health policy, landmark social welfare legislation, poverty, race and social inequality, social problems, social welfare reform, etc.
The Encyclopedia of Social Work
Continually updated encyclopedia offers entries on key aspects of social work. The JFK Library also owns a 2008 print edition at JFK Main Level Reference HV35 .S6 2008.
Social Workers' Desk Reference
The book covers such issues as poverty, a lack of access to quality education, unaffordable and or inadequate housing, and a lack of needed health and mental services on a daily basis.
Clinical Assessment for Social Workers
The book provides a wide range of standardized assessment tools, derived from different perspectives, to give readers greater flexibility in information gathering and intervention planning.
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-5 (5th ed.)
This authoritative volume defines and classifies mental disorders in order to improve diagnoses, treatment, and research.
Modern Social Work Theory (5th ed.)
The book provides overview of the main practice theories and evaluations of the pros and cons of major theories that inform social work practice and comparisons between them.
The SAGE Handbook of International Social Work
This Handbook tackles the global/local aspect of social work in its various forms and interrogates the key concerns that societies are facing through an international lens.
