Introduction to Social Work: An Advocacy-based Profession
Second Edition
Video and Multimedia
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Video
- International Adoption—Challenges and Suggestions
Could social workers perhaps help the ongoing issues regarding international adoptions?
- LBGTQ Laws and Punishments in Africa
Loving who they love, in some parts of Africa, may cost people their lives.
- Female Genital Cutting Continues Despite International Opposition
The difficult issue of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/FGC) is a major human rights struggle.
Audio
- NGOs Call U.S. Drone Program Illegal in Damning Reports
Amnesty International and human rights groups speak out against the alleged war crimes involved in the United States’ drone strike program.
- As Voluntourism Explodes in Popularity, Who’s It Helping Most?
On the surface it looks great--but is “voluntourism” as beneficial to the visited communities as it is to the company profiting off the placement of the volunteers?
Web
- International Social Work
The home page to the journal devoted to this social work specialty. - So You Want to Be an International Social Worker
A guide for landing one of the highly sought-after jobs in international social work.