Social work in the community

Social work in the community is a textbook offering practice guidance to students, practice assessors and practitioners on how social work practice takes place in the community within a political, theoretical, methodological and ethical framework.Â

About the author

Barbra Teater is Senior Lecturer in Social Work, University of Bristol, UK, where she teaches social work theories and methods and community practice. Barbra's research interests include social work in the community, measuring the social impacts of community/community arts programmes, and the implementation and evaluation of social work theories and methods. Mark Baldwin is Senior Lecturer in Social Work, University of Bath, UK, where he teaches social work with adults, community profiling and race and racism. Mark's research interests include innovation, policy implementation and the part played by front-line practitioners in determining policy outcomes, radical social work practice, the use of participative action research methods and service user involvement. Mark is a founding member of the South West Social Work Activists' Network.

Summary

Social work in the community is a textbook offering practice guidance to students, practice assessors and practitioners on how social work practice takes place in the community within a political, theoretical, methodological and ethical framework.

Product details

• Authors: Dr Mark Baldwin, Mark Baldwin, Mark (Department of Social and Policy Sciences Baldwin, Barbra Teater, Barbra (City University of New York) Teater
• Publisher: Policy Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.05.2012
• EAN: 9781847424846
• ISBN: 978-1-84742-484-6
• No. of pages: 152
• Dimensions: 170 mm x 244 mm x 9 mm
• Weight: 276 g
• Series: Social Work in Practice Series; Social Work in Practice Series; Social Work in Practice
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system