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T Laine Scales - Rural Social Work: Building and Sustaining Community Capacity - 9781118445167 - V9781118445167
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Rural Social Work: Building and Sustaining Community Capacity

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Description for Rural Social Work: Building and Sustaining Community Capacity Paperback. Social workers are typically trained in an urban context and are unprepared for the difficulties and challenges of rural social work yet rural areas experience the greatest need for licensed social workers. Editor(s): Scales, T. Laine; Streeter, Calvin L.; Cooper, H. Stephen. Num Pages: 384 pages, illustrations, map. BIC Classification: JFSF; JKSN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 191 x 19. Weight in Grams: 670.

A thoughtful text integrating strengths, assets, and capacity-building themes with contemporary issues in rural social work practice

Now in its second edition, Rural Social Work is a collection of contributed readings from social work scholars, students, and practitioners presenting a framework for resource building based on the strengths, assets, and capacities of people, a tool essential for working with rural communities.

This guide considers methods for social workers to participate in the work of sustaining rural communities. Each chapter features a reading integrating the themes of capacity-building and rural social work; discussion questions that facilitate critical thinking around the chapter; ... Read more

Rural Social Work, Second Edition explores:

  • Important practice issues in rural communities, including the challenges of working with stigmatized populations such as gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered people, the homeless, and people living with HIV/AIDS
  • Practice models that hold special promise for rural social workers, including evidence-based practice and community partnership models
  • Newer research tools such as asset mapping, social network analysis, concept mapping, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

Exploring how social workers can integrate the tremendous resources that exist in rural communities into their practice, Rural Social Work, Second Edition provides a solid introduction to the complex, challenging, and rewarding work of building and sustaining rural communities.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781118445167
SKU
V9781118445167
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About T Laine Scales
T. LAINE SCALES, PhD, is Professor of Higher Education and Associate Dean of the Graduate School at Baylor University, Waco, Texas. She taught social work for 17 years and has published in the areas of social welfare history, rural social work, religion in social work, and teaching with decision cases. CALVIN L. STREETER, PhD, is the Meadows Foundation ... Read more

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