Legal Issues in Social Work Practice and Research

• Main Author: Loue, Sana (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Social work.; Psychology.; Social policy.; Social Work.; Law and Psychology.; Social Policy.

This highly practical text surveys the myriad legal and ethical issues that social workers encounter both in daily practice and under special circumstances. Its initial section presents concepts in law and ethics that unite practitioners, researchers, and academics in the field, such as confidential...

Table of Contents:

• The Social Worker-Client Relationship.-Confidentiality and Disclosure
• Licensing Issues
• Liability Issues for Social Workers in the Clinical Context: An Overview
• Legal Issues in Social Work Research
• The Social Worker and Forensic Social Work
• Working with Families.-School Social Work.-Social Work in the Context of Health Care.-Mental Health and Substance Abuse
• Abuse and Neglect Across the Lifespan
• Legal Issues Working with Immigrants, Refugees, and Asylees
• International Social Work .