Advances in Understanding Advocacy and Improving Policy Practice Education

In testing conceptual models with carefully gathered evidence, social work researchers are improving our understanding of how to conduct effective advocacy emerge, and helping practitioners to be more successful in their advocacy efforts. Bringing evidence and data to teaching methods improves confidence in their applicability to more than one course or institution. Readers of this book will discover how to be more effective policy practitioners as well as more engaging instructors by focusing on theories and evidence which demonstrate successful advocacy and teaching. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Policy Practice.