Promoting the Dignity and Worth of People in Social Work

Edited By: Emmanuel Janagan Johnson

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This volume explores how practitioners respond to current social realities with creative and innovative social work practice. It examines how they can contribute to policy development through their work on dementia, substance use, juvenile reintegration, and more.

The Global Agenda for Social Work (2012) calls on social work educators and practitioners who witness the daily realities of personal, social and community challenges…

The Global Agenda for Social Work (2012) calls on social work educators and practitioners who witness the daily realities of personal, social and community challenges to design and strengthen the profile and visibility of social work and to enable social workers to make a stronger contribution to policy development. This volume responds to the need to examine how practitioners respond to this call to address current social realities. It also explores how local practitioners experience current social challenges, and how they respond to them with creative and innovative social work practice. Topics investigated here include the use of a Mindfulness perspective to help people with a substance use disorder, the challenge of dealing with dementia, male juvenile reintegration in Trinidad and Tobago, and the patterns of childhood behaviours, amongst others.

Emmanuel Janagan Johnson holds a PhD in Social Work, and is working as a Senior Lecturer and Coordinator of Social Work Unit at the Department of Behavioural Sciences of the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad. He has 26 years of teaching experience, and his areas of research interest are the challenges and problems facing women and children. He has published two books and more than 60 research articles in various international journals.