Social Work and the Community: A Critical Context for Practice

ISBN-13: 9781403991263 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 216 str.

Keith Popple;Paul Stepney

Opis

Communities are a context, target and resource for social work practice. They can be both a source of care and support and the site of poverty, conflict and discrimination. This text examines the relationship between social work and community in terms of theoretical perspectives, research, policy intervention and professional practice. It offers a coherent analysis of the importance of community in social work activity, exploring themes such as welfare modernisation, inclusion, sustainability, multi-professional working and anti-oppressive practice.

Spis treści

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.

O autorze

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).