Community Practice: Theories and Skills for Social Workers

Table of contents

• Title Page *
• Preface v
• Note viii
• Acknowledgments ix
• Contents *
• Community Practice *
• 1 - Community Practice: an Introduction 3
• Notes *
• References *
• I - Understanding the Social Environment and Social Interaction *
• 2 - Theory-Based, Model-Based Community Practice 33
• Notes 57
• References *
• 3 - The Nature of Social and Community Problems 61
• Notes *
• References *
• 4 - The Concept of Community in Social Work Practice 91
• Notes *
• References *
• 5 - Community Intervention and Programs: Let's Extend the Clan 120
• Notes *
• References *
• II - Community Practice Skills for Social Workers: Using the Social Environment *
• 6 - Discovering and Documenting the Life of a Community 145
• Notes *
• References *
• 7 - Using Assessment in Community Practice 172
• Notes 202
• References *
• 8 - Using Self in Community Practice: Assertiveness 208
• Notes *
• References 240
• 9 - Using Your Agency 244
• Notes *
• References 270
• 10 - Using Work Groups: Committees, Teams, and Boards 272
• Notes 292
• References *
• 11 - Using Networks and Networking 293
• Note *
• References *
• 12 - Using Social Marketing 320
• Notes *
• References *
• 13 - Using the Advocacy Spectrum 355
• Notes *
• References *
• 14 - Using Organizing: Acting in Concert 391
• Notes 420
• References 421
• 15 - Community Social Casework 426
• Note 439
• References *
• Subject Index 441
• Name Index 453