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How important is the notion of community to skilled social work? This book explores how the concept relates to policy, theory and professional practice. With analysis of contemporary social problems throughout a variety of...
How important is the notion of community to skilled social work? This book explores how the concept relates to policy, theory and professional practice. With analysis of contemporary social problems throughout a variety of community settings, this book demonstrates how important community-based approaches are to all social workers today.
Supports and develops an understanding of how important community-based approaches are to social work
Provides a range of tried and tested teaching and learning approaches and techniques for a wide range of disciplines
Includes activities, exercises, tasks, and questioning tools?
PART 1: THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF COMMUNITY Introduction: The Idea of Community Theories of Community: The Contribution of Community Studies Rethinking Community: Globalisation, neo-liberalism and Inequality PART 2: COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL POLICY Community as an Organising Focus for Social Policy Community Care: Promoting a needs-led and empowering service or using the market to contain costs? Remaking Community: Communitarianism and New Labour's 'Third Way' Project to Modernise the Welfare State PART 3: THEORY TO PRACTICE The Theory and Practice of Community Social Work Community Work and Community Action Future Possibilities for Community-Based Social Work in an International Context.
KEITH POPPLE is Professor of Social Work at London South Bank University, UK, and author of Analysing Community Work (Open University Press, 1995) as well as co-editor of two other books. He is a member of the editorial board of the quarterly international journal, Community Development Journal, for which he was editor from 1998 to 2003.
PAUL STEPNEY is Lecturer in Social Work and Social Policy at the University of Wolverhampton, UK and Visiting Lecturer at the University of Tampere, Finland. He is co-editor of Social Work Models, Methods and Theories: A Framework for Practice (Russell House Publishing, 2000).
KEITH POPPLE is Professor of Social Work at London South Bank University, UK, and author of Analysing Community Work (Open University Press, 1995) as well as co-editor of two other books. He is a member of the editorial board of the quarterly international journal, Community Development Journal, for which he was editor from 1998 to 2003.
PAUL STEPNEY is Lecturer in Social Work and Social Policy at the University of Wolverhampton, UK and Visiting Lecturer at the University of Tampere, Finland. He is co-editor of Social Work Models, Methods and Theories: A Framework for Practice (Russell House Publishing, 2000).
