New Social Work titles from Columbia University Press

New social work titles on motherhood studies, the parent-adolescent relationship, and transnational social work practice. Twenty-first Century Motherhood Experience, Identity, Policy, Agency Edited by Andrea O'Reilly A pioneer of modern motherhood studies, Andrea O'Reilly explores motherhood's current representation and practice, considering such developments as the Internet, interracial surrogacy, raising transchildren, male mothering, intensive mothering, queer parenting, the applications of new biotechnologies, and mothering in the post-9/11 era. Her work pulls together a range of disciplines and themes in motherhood studies including the effects of globalization, HIV/AIDS, welfare reform, politicians as mothers, third wave feminism, and the evolving motherhood movement. Table of Contents.  Reviews. Excerpt. ORDER NOW! $32.50 / £22.50  paper  408 pages Transnational Social Work Practice Edited by Nalini Junko Negi and Rich Furman "A cutting edge text." - Elaine P. Congress, Fordham University  A growing number of people lead lives that transcend national boundaries. In one of the first volumes to address social work practice with this emergent and often marginalized population, practitioners and scholars specializing in transnational issues develop a framework for transnational social work practice.   ORDER NOW! $50.00 / £34.50 cloth  256 pages Parental Monitoring of Adolescents Current Perspectives for Researchers and Practitioners Edited by Vincent Guilamo-Ramos, James Jaccard, and Patricia Dittus Assembled by leading experts on childrearing and healthy parent-child communication, Parental Monitoring of Adolescents identifies the conditions that best facilitate parental knowledge, ideal interventions for high-risk youth, and the factors that either help or hinder the monitoring of an adolescent's world. The volume also sets a course for future research, establishing a new framework that evaluates the nature and approach of monitoring within the parent-adolescent relationship and the particular social realities of everyday life. ORDER NOW! $30.00 / £20.50   paper  312 pages                  *** For more new titles in social work. For more new titles in social work methods and practice. For more new titles in social work and the family. Exam and desk copies.

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