Law and Social Work Practice

A Legal Systems Approach

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Law and Social Work Practice

A Legal Systems Approach

Second Edition

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.

Contents

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

Authors

Professor Raymond Albert, JD, MSW, is Director of the Law and Social Policy Program at Bryn Mawr College Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research, where he has been working with students and colleagues to make sense of socio-legal issues since 1980.

Steven M. Albert, PhD, MS, is Professor and Chair of the Department of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences (BCHS), Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh.

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