Community-created resources

• Please send us any openly licensed resources you’ve created or used that we should share as part of this resource. These may include videos, activities, case studies, or other learning resources.
• Any resources you submit will be evaluated for inclusion in Appendix B: Faculty-to-Faculty Resources as well as in an appropriate place in the textbook. We are happy to provide a letter documenting your contribution to the project, if requested.
• Contact rebecca.mauldin@uta.edu to submit resources or for more information.

Please contact us!

Rebecca Mauldin (rebecca.mauldin@uta.edu) is the project manager and works on the resource regularly. If you have questions about how to adopt or use the resource, how to set something up, or have some feedback for us, please don’t hesitate to get in touch! We’re happy you find the resource useful, and we want to make sure our project is useful to as many people as possible.

If you have feedback on the textbook, you can send us a memo with your thoughts or you can use the Hypothes.is annotation group for Community Feedback. We appreciate you not using the Public hypothes.is forum. Updates to the textbook are made periodically.

Other books in this series

Other books in this series include BSW and MSW research methods open textbooks:

• Scientific inquiry in social work; by Matt DeCarlo
• Guidebook for social work literature reviews and research questions, adapted by Rebecca Mauldin from Scientific inquiry in social work; by Matt DeCarlo
• Foundations of social work research; adapted by Rebecca Mauldin from Scientific inquiry in social work; by Matt DeCarlo

For open textbooks in other social work domains, consult Open Social Work’s list of open textbooks for social work.

Creating your own edition of this textbook

The authors would like people to adapt their own versions of our book.  You can easily customize this textbook for your classroom using Pressbooks.

1. Download the XML file for this textbook.
2. Create a Pressbooks account.
3. Go to Tools/Import.
4. Open this textbook’s XML file using the prompt.
5. You can import all sections of the textbook to make a perfect clone or import selected parts.
6. It’s your book, now. Take out whatever you want, add stuff, revise wording…do whatever you want with it.
7. Make sure to abide by the Creative Commons license and provide proper attribution for all material from this resource (see Copyright Information and Attributions Index for examples).
8. To publish your adapted textbook publicly, you will have to pay $99 to Pressbooks to host your book.
9. Feel free to consult the BCCampus self-publishing guide.

If you make changes to the ancillary resources or textbook you feel the community would benefit from, or if you develop new resources, please consider sharing them with the the authors for inclusion in future editions of this textbook and on OER Commons or Merlot.  Please provide attribution following the best practices in the BCCampus Adaptation guide.