Empowerment in Social Work Practice
Published on 1. January 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-0-534-34846-5 (ISBN)
Description
Presenting social workers with examples of how empowerment practice is conducted, this book provides them with tools for incorporating empowerment in their own practice. Fifteen contributors set out to show how empowerment practice can be used in different settings and with different populations.
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Language
English
Place of publication
CA
United States
Publishing group
Cengage Learning, Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 165 mm
Weight
386 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-534-34846-5 (9780534348465)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Content
Part 1 An introduction to empowerment practice: a model for empowerment practice. Part 2 Empowerment in practice - populations: empowerment of women; empowering poor communities of colour - a self-help model; empowerment practice with lesbians and gays; empowering people with disabilities. Part 3 Empowerment in practice - focusing on fields: empowerment in mental-health programmes - listening to the voices; empowerment practice with homeless people or families; empowerment of youth; empowering families. Part 4 Special issues in empowerment practice: social-service delivery and empowerment - the administrator's role; research as an empowerment strategy; evaluation of empowerment practice; creating opportunities for empowerment-oriented programmes.