Social work and social problems : working towards social inclusion and social change
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Bibliographic Information
Social work and social problems : working towards social inclusion and social change
Macmillan, 2000
Available at 25 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical refernces (p. 239-249) and indexes
Consultant editor: Jo Campling
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book describes how social work teams can respond to social problems in a way that both deals with immediate need and helps build community capacity. The authors recognise the need to respond appropriately to crisis where vulnerable children and adults are at risk, but argue that an inappropriate response can compound and perpetuate people's problems. They suggest that social care organisations need to go beyond operating as aid agencies focusing on the needs of individuals, and should increase their development capacity by working with other agencies and citizens to make communities more supportive and inclusive for vulnerable and excluded people.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements.- Prologue.- Introduction.- Reinventing Social Work: Key Themes and Tasks.- Formulating the Task: Aid or Development?.- Mapping the Task and Processes.- Social Problems, Social Control and Patterns of Interaction.- Managing and Mapping Change.- Assessment and Intervention.- Overcoming Blocks to Change.- Independence and Marginality.- Core Skills: The Joining Skills.- Core Skills: The Intervention Skills.- Epilogue.- Index.
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