Appreciative Inquiry in Social Work

ISBN-13: 9783659325786 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 220 str.

Cojocaru Stefan

Opis

The topic of services provided for vulnerable and disadvantaged populations has always pushed specialists towards finding ways of solving social problems or at least of mitigating them. This book aims to explore forms of implementing social intervention in the social protection of vulnerable and disadvantaged populations, by using problem-centred methods and appreciative intervention methods. From our previous work in theory and research, we propose two angles for approaching social reality: the problem-centred perspective (forms taken by the intervention when approached from the efficiency paradigm perspective) and the appreciative perspective (appreciative inquiry, appreciative supervision and case management).

O autorze

Stefan COJOCARU is currently an Associate Professor at the "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University of Iasi (Romania). His areas of interest include methodology of social research, program evaluation, supervision in social work, appreciative methods of social intervention, and appreciative models in the area of social work, case management and supervision.