Social work in the community: Making a difference

✍ Scribed by Barbra Teater; Mark Baldwin

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 151
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Social work in the community offers practice guidance to students, practice assessors and practitioners within a political, theoretical, methodological and ethical framework. The book is written from an experiential learning perspective, encouraging the reader not only to understand the ideas and methods but to test them out in their own practice, which additionally provides an element of problem-based learning. The book is written within the framework of the practice curriculum for the social work degree, including the National Occupational Standards and an extended statement of values for practice. This will enable students to use the book to make sense of their practice in relation to the knowledge, skills and values of social work practice in its community context.

✦ Table of Contents

Social work in the community
Contents
List of tables, figures and exercise boxes
Tables
Figures
Exercise boxes
1. Introduction to social work in the community
Introduction
Concept of community
Social work in the community: why and how?
Summary and conclusion
2. Theories, values and critical concepts: the foundation of social work in the community
Introduction
Systems approaches
Social constructionism
Strengths perspective and empowerment approaches
Concept of need
Anti-oppressive practice and social work in the community
Summary and conclusion
3. Historical and legal context: development of social work in the community
Introduction
The origins of community within social work
Context of government policy and rhetoric
Summary and conclusion
4. Community social work
Introduction
Community social work in practice
Community social work ideas in action
Anti-oppressive approaches to community social work
Strengths and limitations
Summary and conclusion
5. Community development
Introduction
Community development practice
Community development in practice
Anti-oppressive approaches to community development
Strengths and limitations
Summary and conclusion
6. Community profiling
Introduction
What is a community profile?
Relevance of a community profile to social work practice
Putting a community profile into practice
Collaborative approach to determining need
Anti-oppressive approaches to community profiling
Strengths and limitations
Summary and conclusion
7. Social work in the community: global perspectives
Introduction
Global communities and social work practice
Social work in the global community: approaches to practice
Global role of civil society organisations and non-governmental organisations
Summary and conclusion
8. The future of social work practice in the community: making a difference
Introduction
Social work practice in the community
Importance of defining need
Social work in the community: strengths and limitations
The future of social work in the community
References
Index