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Informationen zum Autor F. Ellen Netting, PHD, is the Samuel S. Wurtzel Endowed Chair and Professor of Social Work at Virginia Commonwealth University where she teaches in the PhD, MSW, and BSW programs. Mary Katherine O'Connor, PHD, is a Professor in the School of Social Work at Virginia Commonwealth University where she teaches in the PhD and MSW programs. David P. Fauri, PHD, is a Professor of Social Work at Virginia Commonwealth University where he teaches in the PhD, MSW, and BSW programs. Klappentext "As a practitioner in the field for over thirty years, I have been exposed to endless 'planning' sessions that are prescriptive to the point of being oppressive. Thistext 'gives permission' to the practitioner to allow for emergence, uncertainty, and ambiguity in the planning process. Comparative Approaches to Program Planning provides a guide for the manager, administrator, executive director, strategic planner, and CEO to embrace multiple planning strategies and the understanding of each. This is extremely worthwhile in a dynamic environment and an ever- changing landscape and worldview." --Paul D. McWhinney, ACSW, Director of Social Services City of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia "This is the book I've been waiting for. It provides not only a linear approach to program design, but gives language to the tacit knowledge many planners have of the circular nature of their work. Both linear and circular thinking are important to planning processes and now we have a resource for teaching." --Jon E. Singletary, PhD, MSW, MDiv, Baylor University, School of Social Work The first text on program planning to guide readers in selecting program planning approaches appropriate to setting, culture, and context Valuable for students and practitioners in the social work, public administration, nonprofit management, and community psychology fields, Comparative Approaches to Program Planning provides practical and creative ways to effectively conduct program planning within human service organizations. Written by leaders in the social work education community, this innovative book explores program planning as a multi-layered and complex process. It examines both a traditional linear problem-solving model as well as an alternative emergent approach to program planning, helping professionals to successfully develop and enact effective and culturally competent planning in organizations and communities. Zusammenfassung "As a practitioner in the field for over thirty years! I have been exposed to endless 'planning' sessions that are prescriptive to the point of being oppressive. Thistext 'gives permission' to the practitioner to allow for emergence! uncertainty! and ambiguity in the planning process. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface xiii Acknowledgments xxiii Chapter 1 Differences Between Lines and Circles 1 Lines and Circles as Planning Metaphors 5 A Brief History of Lines and Circles 7 Planning Theory: Both Lines and Circles 16 Examples of Planning Approaches 20 The ''Surety'' of the Line and the ''Tentativeness'' of the Circle 24 A Conceptual Framework 25 Summary 27 Discussion Questions 28 Chapter 2 Programs: Containers for Idea Implementation 31 Programs and Projects; Services and Interventions 32 Programs and Projects 36 Services and Interventions 38 Programs in Organizational Context 39 Program Planning 43 Mandates and Initiatives 44 Planning Different Types of Programs 46 Summary 48 Discussion Questions 49 Case Exercise: Chronic Pain 51 Chapter 3 Rational Planning and Prescriptive Approaches 59 Case: The Mayor and the Street Educators 61 Introduction 69 History of Rational Planning and Prescriptive Approaches 71...
