This book brings together leaders in the field of community practice and social development in social work. The chapters discuss the implications of social development in social work practice, policy, and service structures.
Theories and Skills for Developmental Social Work James Midgley, Amy Conley. Midgley, J. (1981). ... Ideological Roots of Social Development Strategies, Social Development Issues, 15(1): 1–13. Midgley, J. (1995) Social Development: The ...
Arguing that social development should be at the centre of contemporary social work practice and theory, this book is ideal for social work students and academics with an interest in social development, international social work, social ...
Healy (2005) highlights the importance of post-structural theories in illuminating the complexities of local power in practice in combination with broader structural analyses of modern critical social work (p. 206).
Walking through social development’s key theoretical principles and practice strategies, this book shows how it promotes peoples’ wellbeing not only in the Global South, where it first emerged, but in the Western countries as well.
Towards this end, the book offers a conceptual clarity of social and community development (SCD) by adding new dimensions.
The book will be essential reading for the UK DipSW/MScEcon in Applied Social Studies and MScEcon in Community Care Studies as well as for students of community development and social work in the USA, Asia and Australia.
Encompassing community development, organizing, planning, & social change, as well as globalisation, this book is grounded in participatory & empowerment practice. The 36 chapters assess practice, theory & research methods.
This book focuses solely on the unique African context engaging with issues relating to social work and development more broadly thus enabling a deeper examination and more complex and nuanced picture to emerge.
Arguing that social development should be at the centre of contemporary social work practice and theory, this book is ideal for social work students and academics with an interest in social development, international social work, social ...
Ricketts, K. G., & Ladewig, H. (2008). A path analysis of community leadership within viable rural communities in Florida. Leadership, 4(2), 137–157. Rosenfeld, L. B., Richman, J. M., & Bowen, G. L. (2000). Social support networks and ...