COMMUNITY PRATICE THEORIES AND SKILLS FOR SOCIAL WORKERS

COMMUNITY PRACTICE IS A COMPREHENSIVE RESOURCE FOR SOCIAL WORKERS AND STUDENTS EAGER TO LEARN HOW TO PRACTICE EFFECTIVELY IN COMPLEX SYSTEMS AND DIVERSE COMMUNITIES. IN THIS COMPLETELY REVISED EDITION OF THE DEFINITIVE TEXT IN THE FIELD, THE AUTHORS HAVE THOROUGHLY UPDATED EACH CHAPTER AND ADDED TWO ENTIRELY NEW CHAPTERS ON COMMUNITY BUILDING AND COMMUNITY ORGANIZING. NEW MATERIAL ON TOPICS SUCH AS NEGOTIATION AND MEDIATION, COMMUNITY ADVOCACY, PARTICIPATORY RURAL APPRAISAL, THE NARRATIVE APPROACH TO SOCIAL CHANGE, COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT, REPRESENTATIVE CLIENT BOARDS, AND THE LATEST IN GRASSROOTS ENDEAVORS MAKE THIS TEXT AS INSPIRING AS IT IS PRACTICAL. DRAWING UPON THE WEALTH OF INFORMATION AVAILABLE FROM LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS, THE INTERNET, NEWSPAPERS, AND ACADEMIC JOURNALS, THE AUTHORS INTRODUCE CONTEMPORARY EXPERIMENTS AND ANALYZE CLASSIC MODES OF COMMUNITY PRACTICE AND CHANGE. THE CONTENT, EXERCISES, AND REFERENCES OFFER INSTRUCTORS THE FLEXIBILITY NECESSARY TO TAILOR THEIR COURSES