Social Work for Child Poverty-Alleviation
Description
This book is to reflect on the achievements and challenges of current poverty-alleviation practices for children in China, in order to understand and clarify the function, intervention strategies and development direction of social work in child poverty-alleviation. It systematically presents the theoretical framework and practical path of social work in child poverty-alleviation. The book has three main focuses: firstly, it reviews the theoretical analysis framework of social work in child poverty-alleviation, such as social development perspective, social integration perspective and ecological systems theory at a macro-level, as well as life course theory and resilience theory at a
micro-level; secondly, it presents the general practice path of social work in child poverty-alleviation from the perspective of practice framework, intervention path, work procedures and specific methods, exploring the key points, difficulties, methods and techniques of social work intervention in child poverty-alleviation practices through local cases in China; thirdly, based on the international social work experience in child poverty-alleviation and combined with local practices in China, it clarifies the future direction and advantages of social work in child poverty-alleviation in China.
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Wu Fan is the Chair and Professor of the Department of Social Work and Social Policy at Nankai University in China. She is also a Visiting Scholar at the School of Social Welfare at the University of California, Berkeley. Her professional affiliations include membership in the China Association for Social Work Education, the Family Professional Committee of the China Population Association, and the China Family Sociology Professional Committee. Her primary research interests encompass family policy, population sociology, and social service management and evaluation. In 2011, she was selected for the New Century Talent Support Program by the Ministry of Education of China. In 2022, She was selected as a Young Changjiang Scholar by the Ministry of Education.
Content
Current Situation, Issues, and Challenges of Child Poverty in China.- Theoretical Framework of Social Work for Child Poverty Alleviation.- Practical Approaches to Social Work for Child Poverty Alleviation.- Social Work Practice for Child Poverty Alleviation in China I: Construction of Child Welfare Service System.- Practice of Social Work for Child Poverty Alleviation in China II: Social Work Intervention Models.- Challenges in Social Work for Child Poverty Alleviation.- International Experiences and Reference of Child Poverty Alleviation.- Regional Experience, Development Directions, and Priority Areas of Child Poverty Alleviation in China.