Community Work
2nd Edition
Published on 5. April 1991
Book
Hardback
192 pages
978-0-333-49505-6 (ISBN)
Description
Social work is at an important stage in its development. All professions must be responsive to changing social and economic conditions if they are to meet the needs of those they serve. This series focuses on sound practice and the specific contribution which social workers can make to the well-being of our society. The British Association of Social Workers has always been conscious of its role in setting guidelines for practice and in seeking to raise professional standards. The conception of the "Practical Social Work" series arose from a survey of BASW members to discover where they, the practitioners in social work, felt there was the most need for new literature.
More details
Series
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
tables, bibliography, index
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
Weight
249 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-49505-6 (9780333495056)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
What is community work; radical and professional community work; community development and social planning; service approaches and influence approaches; generic and specialist community work; community work as an attitude or approach; unpaid community work; the community development process; gathering information in the worker's own agency; gathering information from residents; analysis planning and organization; intensive work to set up a group; work with existing groups; reviving moribund groups; a directive approach to setting up a group; work with larger organizations; relationships with policians; community business; advice centres; participation in voluntary action; understanding and influencing group processes; social planning approaches to community work; acting as an advocate for a group; direct work with service providers and policy makers; specialist community work and social planning; from social planning to community development; welfare pluralism, community corporations and the private sector; the project planning process; project management; financial planning and work planning; politics power and social planning; community work and social change; working the system; racism, sexism and the other 'isms; surviving agency pressure; the stresses of the job; developing personal competence.