Social Work Faculty-Authored Books

The Soul of the Helper: 7 Stages to Seeing the Sacred Within Yourself So You Can See It in Others

Caregivers and fellow helpers can learn a more self-compassionate way to cope with their overwhelming responsibilities and to attend to their own needs, particularly when it comes to their mental health and spiritual journey. They're invited to pause and realize that if they let their personal resources run dry, they cannot possibly care for others as fully as they wish.
Templeton Foundation Press • 2024
Holly Oxhandler

Leadership by the Number: Using the Enneagram to Strengthen Educational Leadership

Walk through how to use the ancient wisdom of the Enneagram of Personality with modern contemplative practices to transform how you lead your department, school, college, or university. You'll learn to effectively balance the conflicting demands of your role with greater patience, skill, and peace-of-mind by changing how you think, act, and feel every day.
Jossey-Bass Inc Pub • 2023
Jon Singletary

Social Problems: A Case Study Approach, 6th Ed.

Helps students identify with the social problem at hand through a case study at the start of each chapter. The case study provides a common reference point for discussions and questions and helps students relate to the experiences presented.
Kendall Hunt • 2023
Clay Polson

Baptists and Gender: Papers for the Ninth International Conference on Baptist Studies

Explore the fascinating ways global Baptists have constructed gender roles over the past four centuries. They fill a gap in scholarship, as few resources have examined Baptists' views of femininity and masculinity (and beyond) in historical and global perspectives. As a compilation of twenty-three papers prepared for the Ninth International Conference on Baptist Studies, this volume is broad in scope.
Mercer University Press • 2023
Laine Scales

Social Work Practice With Fathers: Engagement, Assessment, and Intervention

Drawing on the expertise of well-regarded research and practice experts in the field, this comprehensive book provides guidance to social work practitioners and researchers on how to engage, assess, and serve fathers. Instructors can use the text to include fathers in courses on the human behavior and social environment, family systems, clinical practice, diversity, or service systems.
Springer Verlag • 2022
Brianna Lemmons

Baptists and the Kingdom of God: Global Perspectives

The essays in Baptists and the Kingdom of God, written by scholars from several countries and disciplinary perspectives, approach the question of the kingdom under four major themes: ecclesial, eschatological, social, and providential. Considered as a whole, the volume illuminates historic and contemporary views of Baptists wrestling with ideas surrounding the kingdom concept, providing a unique resource for students and scholars of Baptist heritage and thought.
Baylor Univ Press • 2022
Laine Scales

Racialized Health, Covid-19, and Religious Responses: Black Atlantic Contexts and Perspectives

Explores black religious responses to black health concerns amidst persistent race-based health disparities and healthcare inequities. This cutting-edge edited volume provides theoretically and descriptively rich analysis of cases and contexts where race factors strongly in black health outcomes and dynamics, viewing these matters from various disciplinary and national vantage points.
Routledge • 2022
Stephanie Boddie

Doing the Word: Southern Baptists' Carver School of Church Social Work and its Predecessors

In the pantheon of publications related to women’s educational history, there is little research concerning women’s education in the context of the Baptist church. In Doing the Word: Southern Baptists’ Carver School of Church Social Work and Its Predecessors, 1907–1997, T. Laine Scales and Melody Maxwell provide a complete history of this unique institution. By exploring the dynamic evolution of women’s education through the lens of the women’s training program for missions and social work at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, the authors show how the institution both expanded women’s education and leadership and also came into tension with changes in the Southern Baptist Convention, ultimately resulting in its closing in 1997. A touchstone for women’s studies and church history alike, Doing the Word reopens a lost chapter in the evolution of women’s leadership during the twentieth century—a tumultuous period in which the Carver School, under significant pressure to reverse course, sought to expand the roles of women in leading the church.
University of Tennessee Press • 2019
T. Laine Scales, Melody Maxwell

Christian Faith and University Life: Stewards of the Academy

This book provides new insights on the unique role of doctoral students and new faculty as they join other stewards of the academy working within Christian higher education. Weaving together a variety of voices—graduate students, pastors, and seasoned scholars—the book examines the Christian university’s relationship to the Church and how faith and stewardship can guide the pursuit of teaching and scholarship.
Palgrave Macmillan • 2018
T. Laine Scales, Jennifer L. Howell

Why I Am a Social Worker: 25 Christians Tell Their Life Stories

This book describes the rich diversity and nature of the profession of social work through the 25 stories of daily lives and professional journeys chosen to represent the different people, groups and human situations where social workers serve.
North American Association of Christians in Social Work • 2015
Diana R. Garland

Methods in Religion, Spirituality & Aging

Since 1971, U.S. research has expanded from religiosity to spirituality, exploring definitions and methods. This book covers philosophical, professional, and research perspectives, aiding practical assessments and scholarly work across disciplines.
Routledge •2013
James W. Ellor

Family Ministry

Garland examines and fully integrates the historical, sociological, theological and biblical contexts to understand the role and meaning of family in the life of Christians and the church. She perceptively connects these explorations with the social and cultural context of the early twenty-first century.
IVP Academic • 2012
Diana R. Garland

Social Environments and Human Behavior: Contexts for Practice with Groups, Organizations, Communities, and Social Movements

This text uses an innovative liberal arts approach to teach social work students the impact of the social environment on human behavior. The text includes readings organized into four modules: groups, communities, organizations, and social movements. Each set of readings brings together theoretical information, research, artistic expression, and practical application to give students a better understanding of the systems in which they will work. Each reading has been chosen to help students connect what they learn in the Human Behavior and the Social Environment course to other courses and the practice behaviors outlined by the revised Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards (EPAS) from the Council on Social Work Education.
Brooks Cole •2011
T. Laine Scales, Jon Singletary, H. Stephen Cooper

Inside Out Families: Living the Faith Together

Utilizing the research methods for which she is well known, Diana Garland here guides congregational leaders and counselors to encourage families to engage together in the Christian practice of service. The fruit of family service, she writes, is not only a deeper understanding of one another and of what God is doing in the world but also the reordering of a family's values and time together. It is this communal service, she demonstrates, that will develop in children and adolescents a resilient faith that will carry them into adulthood - and, ultimately, prove essential to maintaining a vigorous, resilient faith in congregational life.
Baylor University Press • 2010
Diana R. Garland

Flawed Families of the Bible: How God's Grace Works through Imperfect Relationships

In Flawed Families of the Bible, a New Testament scholar (David) and a professor of social work (Diana) take a real and close look at the actual families of the Bible. This honest book will inspire and encourage readers with its focus on the overarching theme of hope and grace for families, showing that it is in the "imperfect places" that we can catch a glimpse of grace. Perfect for pastors, counselors, and anyone in a flawed family.
Brazos Press • 2007
Diana R. Garland

Flawed Families of the Bible: How God's Grace Works through Imperfect Relationships

Sacred Stories of Ordinary Families: Living the Faith in Daily Life

When families are faced with crises and challenges&; unemployment, the untimely death of a family member, natural disasters and chronic illnesses&; those who seem to weather the crisis best are often those who have an active spiritual dimension to their lives together. And in times of joy and celebration families with strong spiritual lives rejoice in deeper and more wondrous ways. But what exactly is it that characterizes faith and spirituality in family life? Identifying resilience, strength, and faith in the stories of all kinds of families, Sacred Stories of Ordinary Families motivates readers to think about how faith shapes their own family lives. Drawn from Diana R. Garland's extensive interviews with 110 families, this book includes stories from ordinary families whose lives together both reveal and rely on extraordinary faith
Jossey-Bass • 2003
Diana R. Garland