Full Description
This beginner's text offers students an introduction to social work - as a discipline with distinct concepts, as a profession with particular values and practice contexts, and as an institution within social welfare. It also details a history that has defined what social work is and what it can become.
Contents
The nature of social work and its diverse purposes; social work in context - the social environment; histroical development of social welfare; historical development of social work discipline and profession; values for social work practice; social work in the South African context. Appendices: pavement people and informal communities; code of ethics for social work.
