Social Work Theories In Action

✍ Scribed by Jim Ife, Mary Nash, Robyn Munford, Kieran O'Donoghue

• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 274
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This wide-ranging collection of essays explores how social work theories are applied to practice and offers insights into the cultural issues involved in social work. The authors discuss the challenges faced by indigenous populations and ethnic minority groups and how they can gain control over their situations, and offer valuable guidance on cross-cultural work. The authors present the key principles of four theoretical approaches frequently used in social work - ecological systems, community development, strengths-based approaches and attachment theories. They explain how each of these can be applied in a wide range of contexts, including mental health care, trauma counselling and child protection. Drawing on the experience of community development work, they suggest how these approaches can also be used in work with migrants and refugees.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Social Work Theories in Action......Page 5
Contents......Page 7
DEDICATIONS AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
......Page 10
Foreword by
Jim Ife......Page 11
Introduction: Integrating
Theory and Practice......Page 17
Part I:
People in their Environments......Page 31
Introduction......Page 33
1.

The Ecological Systems Metaphor
in Australasia......Page 34
2.

An Ecological Understanding of HIV
Practice in South Africa......Page 52
3.

Complexity and Context:
An Ecological Understanding
of Trauma Practice......Page 66
4.

Integrated Practice in Mental Health
Social Work......Page 82
Part II:

Developing Communities......Page 95
Introduction......Page 97
5.

Community Development:
Principles into Practice......Page 99
6.

Dreams are Free:
Nga Moemoea a te Hapu......Page 115
7.

Community Development:
A Tongan Perspective......Page 127
8.

Responding to Settlement Needs:
Migrants and Refugees
and Community Development......Page 142
Part III:

Working with Strengths......Page 157
Introduction......Page 159
9.

Working with Families:
Strengths-based Approaches......Page 160
10.

Strengths-based Practice in Statutory
Care and Protection Work......Page 176
11.

Bicultural Strengths-based Supervision......Page 191
Part IV:

Attachment: Reworking
Relationships......Page 207
Introduction......Page 209
12.

Attachment Theory and Social Work......Page 210
13.

Working with Adults
who are Parenting......Page 225
14.

Attachment Issues and Work
with Adolescents......Page 241
Conclusion: Integrated
Theory in Action......Page 253
GLOSSARY OF MAORI AND PACIFIC WORDS......Page 263
CONTRIBUTORS
......Page 266
SUBJECT INDEX
......Page 269
AUTHOR INDEX
......Page 272