Law and Social Work Practice
A Legal Systems Approach
This completely rewritten and updated new edition of a practical text continues to provide a firm introduction to law and legal processes and their relation to social work practice. Using Clinton's welfare reform act of 1996, Albert provides a conceptual framework to illustrate how socio-legal problems emerge in the welfare state, and presents the skills base necessary for effective social work response. A new section on socio-legal issues highlights many fields where social worker-lawyer partnerships can occur, such as civil rights and advocacy, the death penalty, liability for neglect in nursing homes, informed consent and medical treatment, and much more. Filled with techniques for reading and understanding judicial opinion, legislative statues, and bills, this new edition will appeal to all professors of law and social work courses, as well as courses on the welfare state.
- An Introduction to Legal Processes
- Law and the Social Environment
- The Judicial Process: The Nature of Case Law
- The Judicial Process: Introduction to Civil Procedure
- The Legislative Process
- The Interpretation of Legislation: The Search for Legislative Intent
- The Implementation of Legislation
- The Administrative Process
- The Skills Dimension
- Social Work Advocacy in Legislative and Administrative Processes
- Legal Research Resources and Techniques
- Court Testimony and Evidence
- Privileged Communications and Worker-Client Relations
- Social Work
- Social Work Privilege in Federal Courts: Deconstructing Jaffe v. Redmond
- Socio-Legal Issues in Social Work Practice
- Social Worker - Lawyer Partnerships: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
- Second Parent Adoptions and Same-Sex Relationships, L. Golay and R. Albert
- The Civil Rights Remedy of the Violence Against Women Act of 1994, C. Bangs and R. Albert
- Informed Consent to Medical Treatment, R. Long and R. Albert
- Liability for Neglect in Nursing Homes, I. Warner and R. Albert
- Imposing the Death Penalty on Juveniles, A. Adson and R. Albert
- Charitable Organizations and Lobbying, M. Campbell and R. Albert
- Lobbying Reform and Nonprofit Organizations: Policy Images and Constituent Policy, M.J. Wyszomirski
- Restrictions to legal Services for the Poort, C. Ormerod and R. Albert

- Release Date: February 16, 2000
- Hardback
- 560 Pages
- Trim Size: 6in x 9in
- ISBN: 9780826148919
- eBook ISBN: 9780826148926
- Series: Springer Series on Social Work