I acquire in the fields of social work, psychology, and gerontology and publish three series: Foundations of Social Work Knowledge, Empowering the Powerless, and the End of Life Care series.
Our social work list is Bowker’s top-ranked university press list in the discipline. It is comprised of MSW, advanced BSW and doctoral-level main and ancillary text books, practice-oriented projects, and research, reference and scholarly works. Classic texts include Alfred Kadushin’s The Social Work Interview and Supervision in Social Work, Alex Gitterman’s The Life Model Practice of Social Work Practice and Mutual Aid Groups, Vulnerable Populations and the Life Cycle, Northen and Kurland’s Social Work with Groups, Frederic Reamer’s Philosophical Foundations of Social Work and Social Work Values and Ethics, and Reid and Fortune’s Research in Social Work.
Among our strong new practice titles are Marion Bogo’s Social Work Practice, Wood and Tully’s The Structural Approach to Direct Practice in Social Work, 3rd Edition, an upcoming edition of Ronald Rooney’s Strategies for Work with Involuntary Clients, Mallon and Hess’s Child Welfare for the 21st Century, and Sonia Austrian’s Mental Disorders, Medications, and Clinical Social Work, 3rd Edition.
The diversity of social worker perspectives and roles and the field’s international orientation are reflected in Elisabeth Reichert’s Social Work and Human Rights and Challenges in Human Rights, Kontos, Barrios and Brotherton’s Gangs and Society, Simon and Rhorda’s In Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories, and Messinger and Morrow’s Sexual Orientation and Gender Expression in Social Work Practice.
That diversity is also reflected in our clinical psychology books, where authors take pains to include case studies from oppressed populations, including Firestein’s Becoming Visible, Miller and Mason’s Diagnosis Schizophrenia, and Brandell and Ringel’s Attachment and Dynamic Practice.
Our gerontology authors are leaders in the field and include Nancy Hooyman and Betty Kramer who have written the instant classic Living Through Loss, Joan Berzoff and Phyllis Silverman, with their glowingly-reviewed Living with Dying, and Virginia Richardson and Amanda Barusch, who’ve put together the state-of-the art guide to practice, Gerontological Practice in the Twenty-first Century. Columbia has been at the forefront of publishing on gerontological practice with diverse populations, as in Pat Kolb’s Social Work Practice with Enthically and Racially Diverse Nursing Home Residents and Their Families, and Doug Kimmel, et al’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Aging.
I am interested in text, single-volume reference, and books for the general reader in the above fields and in related fields such as criminology, ethnic and gender studies, mental health, and sociology that could crossover to social work, psychology and gerontology audiences.
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