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35%OFFMelvin Delgado - Asset Assessments and Community Social Work Practice - 9780199735846 - V9780199735846
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Asset Assessments and Community Social Work Practice

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Description for Asset Assessments and Community Social Work Practice Hardback. Needs assessments identify the needs for services, answering questions about who needs these services and in what priority. Asset assessments focuses on existing resources; combing both needs and asset assesments helps find the gaps in these services and is useful to organizations and communities. Num Pages: 320 pages, 4 line-cuts. BIC Classification: JKSN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 162 x 20. Weight in Grams: 578.
The role and importance of assessment in development of health and social services are well accepted in the field, and represent the fundamental building blocks for the creation of any form of social intervention. Need assessments are, without question, the most common form of assessment in these fields. They typically, however, result in a rather narrow view of a community that stresses disease risk profiles and lists of various social problem categories. Nevertheless, unlike needs assessments, asset assessments bring a range of factors and considerations to the creation of an intervention that are guided by participatory democratic principles and processes. ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780199735846
SKU
V9780199735846
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Ref
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About Melvin Delgado
Melvin Delgado, PhD, is Professor and Chair of Macro Practice at the Boston University School of Social Work. Denise Humm-Delgado, PhD, is Associate Professor at the Simmons College School of Social Work.

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