By T. Laine Scales
A considerate textual content integrating strengths, resources, and capacity-building subject matters with modern matters in rural social paintings practice
Now in its moment version, Rural Social Work is a set of contributed readings from social paintings students, scholars, and practitioners proposing a framework for source development in accordance with the strengths, resources, and capacities of individuals, a device crucial for operating with rural communities.
This advisor considers tools for social employees to take part within the paintings of maintaining rural groups. each one bankruptcy incorporates a analyzing integrating the topics of capacity-building and rural social paintings; dialogue questions that facilitate serious considering round the bankruptcy; and urged actions and assignments.
Rural Social paintings, moment Edition explores:
- Important perform concerns in rural groups, together with the demanding situations of operating with stigmatized populations similar to homosexual, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered humans, the homeless, and folks residing with HIV/AIDS
- Practice types that carry precise promise for rural social staff, together with evidence-based perform and neighborhood partnership models
- Newer learn instruments similar to asset mapping, social community research, idea mapping, and Geographic info structures (GIS)
Exploring how social employees can combine the great assets that exist in rural groups into their perform, Rural Social paintings, moment Edition presents an exceptional creation to the complicated, hard, and lucrative paintings of creating and maintaining rural communities.
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Extra info for Rural Social Work: Building and Sustaining Community Capacity
Sample text
Obviously not all rural communities have the same traditions, values, and norms, and it is important for the social worker to become competent in those that are part of a specific community. Rural Arkansas may be very different from rural Wyoming in many ways, and it is important for the social worker to understand how they differ. Because personal (informal) relationships are very important to living and coping in small towns and rural communities, maintenance of some kind of social order is essential for individual and community survival.
She teaches across the MSW curriculum. She is the author of Social Work in Schools: Principles and Practice and has authored several book chapters and peer-reviewed journal articles on school social work, mental health, and spirituality. She is an item writer and has served in several capacities, including a member of the Examination Committee for the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB). She has been teaching the LCSW Supervision Course, for Clinical Social Workers who want to become supervisors in Texas, for the past three years.
Singletary has published more than 20 peer-reviewed articles, 35 presentations on communities and congregations, and is co-author of Social Environments and Human Behavior: Contexts for Practice With Groups, Organizations, Communities, and Social Movements (Brooks/Cole, 2012). Paul H. Stuart earned his MSW from the University of California at Berkeley, and his PhD degree in History and Social Welfare from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is a Professor in the School of Social Work, Robert Stempel College of Public Health and Social Work, Florida International University, in Miami.
