Full Description
Social work in the community offers practice guidance to students, practice assessors and practitioners within a political, theoretical, methodological and ethical framework. The book is written from an experiential learning perspective, encouraging the reader not only to understand the ideas and methods but to test them out in their own practice, which additionally provides an element of problem-based learning. The book is written within the framework of the practice curriculum for the social work degree, including the National Occupational Standards and an extended statement of values for practice. This will enable students to use the book to make sense of their practice in relation to the knowledge, skills and values of social work practice in its community context.
Contents
Contents: Introduction to community-based social work and community profiling; Theories, values and ethics for community-based social work; Understanding needs through community profiling; Methodological approaches to community profiling; Community profile in action: working with a local racial equality council; Community profile in action: researching the views of older people; The future of community social work practice: making a difference.
