In Search of Prevention
The Mars Project
Published on 12. November 1992
Book
Hardback
132 pages
978-1-85628-349-6 (ISBN)
Description
Aims to clarify the concept of prevention in social work, devise a method for evaluating its effectiveness and apply the method to the efforts of a voluntary agency (Mobile Action Resource Service); concludes that intensive social work can be effective with a "resistant" client group.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
bibliography, table
Dimensions
Height: 154 mm
Width: 223 mm
Weight
300 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85628-349-6 (9781856283496)
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Content
MARS in content - the study design; MARS at work - an overview; the clients; preventive work in practice; goals and achievements; an experiment in prediction; MARS and the social work department - influencing the practioners?; conclusion; bibliograpny. Appendices: prediction exercises - case histories; sample table of predictions.