Social Work in the Community
Making a Difference
Distributed for Policy Press at the University of Bristol
This practical guide offers students, social work practitioners, and practice assessors a holistic understanding of how to make a difference with social work. Written from an experiential learning perspective, it not only surveys current ideas and methods of social work but provides realistic ways to implement them. In doing so, it utilizes a robust, problem-based learning design that will enable readers to make sense of their practice in relation to the standard knowledge, skills, and values of social work in community contexts.
1. Introduction to social work in the community
2. Theories, values and critical concepts: the foundation of social work in the community
3. Historical and legal context: development of social work in the community
4. Community social work
5. Community development
6. Community profiling
7. Social work in the community: global perspectives
8. The future of social work practice in the community: making a difference
References
Index
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