Social Work and Empowerment
3rd Edition
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-0-333-69347-6 (ISBN)
Description
"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 third edition offers an updated overview of theories, models and methods associated with empowerment. It covers self-empowerment and empowering work with individuals, groups, communities and organisations, including new examples of empowering work with children, families and adults.
More details
Series
Edition
3rd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
bibliography, index
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-333-69347-6 (9780333693476)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
Part 1 Theories, models and methods for empowering practice: ingredients of empowerment; frameworks for empowerment. Part 2 Empowerment in practice: self-empowerment; empowering individuals; what are empowering groups?; working with empowering groups; empowering communities and organisations; empowering evaluation. Part 3 Issues for social work: social workers and people using services - empowering relationships?; towards an empowering social work.