Essential Law for Social Workers FROM THE PUBLISHER
Whether protecting their own rights or those of their clients, or navigating the juvenile justice, immigration, or welfare systems, social workers confront legal issues every day. This book explores legal concepts, legal reasoning, and legal processes -illustrated with case vignettes from social work practice -in order to provide social work practitioners and students with practical and accessible legal knowledge. It introduces readers to scholarship about the law and to conceptual knowledge that can be applied to any interaction with the legal system. Social workers are thereby enabled to "think like a lawyer" and increase their effectiveness. The volume features a discussion of recent reform movements, including Alternative Dispute Resolution, and an appendix of sources for legal information and research on the law.
SYNOPSIS
Introducing the law to social workers in the United States, licensed social worker Madden concentrates on the foundations of legal thinking and reasoning, in the belief that such a grounding will help social workers advocate for their clients in legal proceedings and maybe even help them change the legal system towards more therapeutic" forms. After discussing the philosophical and historical foundations of the legal system, he provides chapters on the stages of litigation, constitutional rights, family law, probate matters, malpractice, and business law for private practitioners. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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