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Known for attracting expert
authors, NASW Press— a division of NASW—delivers professional
information to more than 200,000 readers through its scholarly journals,
books, and reference works. NASW Press generates nearly 40 percent
of the Association's annual non-dues revenue.
NASW Press published
the following books during 2002-2003:
- The Social Work Dictionary, 5th Edition
- Encyclopedia of Social Work, 19th Edition, 2003 Supplement
- Social Work Speaks: NASW Policy Statements, 2003 - 2006,
6th Edition
- Foundations of Social Work Practice: A Graduate Text, 3rd
Edition
- Women at Midlife: Life Experiences and Implications for
the Helping Professions
- Spirituality and the Black Helping Tradition in Social Work
BESTSELLERS
NASW Press publications have been widely recognized
for their content, editing, and award-winning appearance. Following
is a list of the year's bestsellers:
- The Social Work Dictionary
- Interactional Supervision
- Social Work Speaks
- Foundations of Social Work Practice: A Graduate Text, 3rd
Edition
- Skills for Effective Management of Nonprofit Organizations
- Ethical Standards in Social Work: A Review of the NASW Code
of Ethics
- Encyclopedia of Social Work, 19th Edition
- Resiliency: An Integrated Approach to Practice, Policy,
and Research
- Risk and Resilience in Childhood: An Ecological Perspective
- Organizing: A Guide for Grassroots Leaders, Revised Edition
TEXTBOOKS
NASW Press is a leading scholarly press in the social sciences.
It serves faculty, practitioners, agencies, librarians, clinicians,
and researchers in social work and many related disciplines throughout
the United States and abroad.
Among the titles
frequently adopted as textbooks are:
- Social Work Speaks
- Foundations of Social Work Practice: A Graduate Text, 3rd
Edition
- Organizing: A Guide for Grassroots Leaders, Revised Edition
- Persons in Environment [PIE] System: The PIE Classification
System for Social Functioning Problems and the PIE Manual
- Skills for Effective Management of Nonprofit Organizations
- Advances in Mental Health Research
- Interactional Supervision
- Risk and Resilience in Childhood: An Ecological Perspective
- Social Work Dictionary
- Ethical Standards in Social Work: A Review of the NASW Code
of Ethics
JOURNALS
Social Work is the NASW flagship publication, used
extensively by social work educators as an important teaching and
reference tool. The Information Sciences Institute (ISI) ranks Social
Work #1 in the world in its "Social Sciences Citation Index"
database for its publishing standards, editorial content, and citation
data. ISI covers 8,600 international journals on an annual basis
and selects only the top 10 to 12 percent for inclusion in its science,
social sciences, and arts and humanities databases. In addition
to Social Work , ISI also ranks other NASW Press journals
fourteenth and nineteenth in its social sciences database.
All NASW Journals
are published quarterly throughout the year, and are available online
and in print:
- Social Work
- Health & Social Work
- Children & Schools
- Social Work Research
- Social Work Abstracts (also available on CD-Rom)
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