| |
| |
| |
| Community Practice: An Introduction | |
| |
| |
| Community Practice | |
| |
| |
| The Community in Social Work Practice | |
| |
| |
| Community Practice Skills as Foundation for all Social Workers | |
| |
| |
| The Social Work Problem-Solving Strategy | |
| |
| |
| Ethics, Advocacy, and Community Practice | |
| |
| |
| The Organization of This Book | |
| |
| |
| |
| Understanding the Social Environment and Social Interaction | |
| |
| |
| |
| Theory-Based, Model-Based Community Practice | |
| |
| |
| A Conceptual Framework for Practice | |
| |
| |
| Theories for Understanding Community Practice | |
| |
| |
| Additional Frameworks | |
| |
| |
| Traditional Models of Community Organization | |
| |
| |
| |
| The Nature of Social and Community Problems | |
| |
| |
| Conceptualizing a Social-Community Problem | |
| |
| |
| Getting a Social-Community Problem Addressed | |
| |
| |
| Worldviews and Social Problems | |
| |
| |
| Culture and Social Problems | |
| |
| |
| |
| The Concept of Community in Social Work Practice | |
| |
| |
| Basic Community Concepts | |
| |
| |
| The Changing U.S. Community | |
| |
| |
| Perspectives for Practice | |
| |
| |
| Community Functions | |
| |
| |
| Conclusion | |
| |
| |
| |
| Community Practice Skills for Social Workers: Using the Social Environment | |
| |
| |
| |
| Assessment: Discovering and Documenting the Life of a Community | |
| |
| |
| The Landscape of Our Lives | |
| |
| |
| Assessment | |
| |
| |
| Philosophies of Assessment | |
| |
| |
| Forms of Community Assessment | |
| |
| |
| Community Assessment Applications to Our Own Work | |
| |
| |
| Community Reengagement: Hitting the Bricks | |
| |
| |
| Conclusion: Unpretentious but Necessary Outings | |
| |
| |
| |
| Using Assessment in Community Practice | |
| |
| |
| Assessment as a Basic Social Work Process | |
| |
| |
| Assessment: Information-Gathering Methodologies | |
| |
| |
| Integrating Methods to Suit Assessment Needs | |
| |
| |
| |
| Assertiveness: Using Self in Community Practice | |
| |
| |
| Use of Self | |
| |
| |
| Expansion of Self | |
| |
| |
| Beliefs and Outcomes | |
| |
| |
| Assertiveness: An Overview | |
| |
| |
| The Boundaries of Assertion | |
| |
| |
| Actors and Applications | |
| |
| |
| Assertiveness and Class or Minority Status | |
| |
| |
| Purposes and Benefits of Assertiveness in Social Work | |
| |
| |
| Broader Conceptions of Assertiveness | |
| |
| |
| The Context and the Setting for Assertive Behavior | |
| |
| |
| Modes of Assertive Communication | |
| |
| |
| Assertive Social Workers Needed: Summary | |
| |
| |
| Appendix 7.1: Being Assertive: Learn Through Role-Playing | |
| |
| |
| |
| Using Your Agency | |
| |
| |
| Attributes of Human Service Agencies | |
| |
| |
| Perspectives on How Organizations Function: A Brief Review | |
| |
| |
| Examining the Formal Structure and Operations | |
| |
| |
| The Informal Structure: What is Not on the Organization Chart | |
| |
| |
| A Paradigm of the Competitive Culture | |
| |
| |
| Computer Resources and Uses and Virtual Agencies | |
| |
| |
| The Virtual Agency | |
| |
| |
| Working the System | |
| |
| |
| Changing the Agency from Within | |
| |
| |
| |
| Using Work Groups: Committees, Teams, and Boards | |
| |
| |
| A Case Example | |
| |
| |
| Teams | |
| |
| |
| Group Development and the Role of the Social Worker | |
| |
| |
| Some Caveats on Groups | |
| |
| |
| Effective Meetings | |
| |
| |
| Dealing with Group Problems | |
| |
| |
| Conclusion | |
| |
| |
| |
| Using Networks and Networking | |
| |
| |
| What is a Network? What is Networking? | |
| |
| |
| Why Networks and Networking? | |
| |
| |
| Social Exchanges and Networks | |
| |
| |
| Network Dimensions | |
| |
| |
| Domain Consensus | |
| |
| |
| Establishing and Maintaining Domains and Networks: The Practice Challenges and Tasks | |
| |
| |
| Bargaining | |
| |
| |
| Mediation and Arbitration | |
| |
| |
| Establishing and Maintaining Domains | |
| |
| |
| Virtual Networks and Networking | |
| |
| |
| Clients and Social Support Networks | |
| |
| |
| |
| Using Marketing | |
| |
| |
| Markets and Marketing | |
| |
| |
| Marketing Challenges for the Social Services and the Social Work Profession | |
| |
| |
| A Market Orientation for the Profession | |
| |
| |
| Marketing and Community Practice | |
| |
| |
| Strategic Marketing and Market Management | |
| |
| |
| The Marketing Audit Guide | |
| |
| |
| |
| Using The Advocacy Spectrum | |
| |
| |
| Making Change Happen | |
| |
| |
| Social Action and Advocacy | |
| |
| |
| Advocacy Spectrum: Spanning People and Policy | |
| |
| |
| Public Interest, Political, and Cause Advocacy | |
| |
| |
| Supporting the Spectrum: Job Descriptions and Advocacy Postures | |
| |
| |
| Key Advocacy Skills | |
| |
| |
| Appendix 12.1: Illustrative Exercises | |
| |
| |
| |
| Using Organizing: Acting in Concert | |
| |
| |
| Community Organizing and Organizations | |
| |
| |
| Community Building | |
| |
| |
| Asset-Based Community Building | |
| |
| |
| Using Community Assets | |
| |
| |
| Focus, Focus | |
| |
| |
| The Theme of Connecting | |
| |
| |
| |
| Community Social Casework | |
| |
| |
| What is Community Social Casework? | |
| |
| |
| Community Social Case Work Knowledge, Skill, and Tasks | |
| |
| |
| Community Assessment and Patch Analysis | |
| |
| |
| Ethnography | |
| |
| |
| Community Social Casework Protocol | |
| |
| |
| The Conception of the Community, the Social Resources, and the Task Environment | |
| |
| |
| Effectiveness of Community Social Casework | |
| |
| |
| Subject Index | |
| |
| |
| Author Index | |