| Description |
xii, 450 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 428-429) and indexes. |
| Summary |
Community Practice, a definitive teaching text for all courses in community organization and foundation practice, presents a comprehensive and integrated overview of the theory and skills fundamental to all areas of social work practice. Based on the theory that social workers, whether generalists, specialists, therapists, or activists, need to focus on both the individual as well as the surrounding community, the authors have created a text which offers the skills necessary to promote welfare of the individual clients and the larger community, thus having a positive impact on the lives of individuals as well as entire families. This text distills the essence of complex theoretical concepts, managing to avoid the common problem of oversimplifying and "watering down" the subject matter. Its most impressive feature is the amalgam of theory and practice necessary for all social work practitioners and students. Virtually every chapter that introduces significant theoretical constructs includes a follow-up discussion of their practical application through case studies and examples. Readable and unusually broad in coverage, it is geared to both graduate and undergraduate students. Exhaustive, lucid, and wide-ranging, Community Practice is an up-to-date and accessible text for all courses that emphasize the community aspect of social work. |
| Contents |
Community Practice: An Introduction -- Understanding the Social Environment and Social Interaction -- Theory-Based, Model-Based Community Practice -- The Nature of Social and Community Problems -- The Concept of Community in Social Work Practice -- Community Intervention and Programs: Let's Extend the Clan -- Community Practice Skills for Social Workers: Using the Social Environment -- Discovering and Documenting the Life of a Community -- Using Assessment in Community Practice -- Using Self in Community Practice: Assertiveness -- Using Your Agency -- Using Work Groups: Committees, Teams, and Boards -- Using Networks and Networking -- Using Social Marketing -- Using the Advocacy Spectrum -- Using Organizing: Acting in Concert -- Community Social Casework. |
| Subject |
Social service.
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Social workers.
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Social service. (OCoLC)fst01123192
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Social workers. (OCoLC)fst01123585
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| Added Author |
Wenocur, Stanley, 1938-
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Powers, Patricia R.
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| ISBN |
0195093526 |
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9780195093520 |
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