Social Work and Empowerment, Third Edition (Practical Social Work)

✍ Scribed by Robert Adams

• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 231
• Edition: 3rd
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

First published well over ten years ago, Social Work and Empowerment offers a succinct and clear account of the literature on empowerment and a thorough examination of its relevance to social work. This timely third edition offers a fuller and more thoroughly updated overview of theories, models, and methods associated with empowerment. It covers self-empowerment and empowering work with individuals, groups, communities, and organizations, including new examples of empowering work with children, families, and adults.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 8
List of Figures and Tables......Page 12
Introduction to the Third Edition......Page 14
List of Abbreviations......Page 17
Part I Theories, Models and Methods for Empowering Practice......Page 18
1 Ingredients of Empowerment......Page 20
2 Frameworks for Empowerment......Page 45
Part II Practising Empowerment......Page 62
3 Self-empowerment......Page 64
4 Empowering Individuals......Page 76
5 What are Empowering Groups?......Page 94
6 Working with and within Empowering Groups......Page 113
7 Empowering Communities and Organisations......Page 134
8 Empowering Evaluation......Page 153
Part III Issues for Social Work......Page 176
9 Practitioners and People Using Services: Empowering Relationships?......Page 178
10 Empowering Social Work......Page 199
Bibliography......Page 215
Index......Page 226