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Author(s): David A. Hardcastle
ISBN(s): 9780195398878, 0195398874
Edition: 3
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Year: 2011
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0195398874 
ISBN 13: 9780195398878
Author: David A Hardcastle

For almost two decades, Community Practice has been a definitive text for social workers, community practitioners, and students eager to help individuals contribute to and use community resources or work to change oppressive community structures. In this third edition, a wealth of new charts and cases spotlight the linkages between theoretical orientations and practical skills, with an enhanced emphasis on the inherently political nature of social work and community practice. Boxes, examples, and exercises illustrate the range of skills and strategies available to savvy community practitioners in the 21st century, including networking, marketing and staging, political advocacy, and leveraging information and communication technologies. Other features include:- New material on community practice ethics, critical practice skills, community assessment and assets inventory and mapping, social problem analysis, and applying community ractice skills to casework practice- Consideration of post-9/11 community challenges- Discussion on the changing ethnic composition of America and what this means for practitioners- An exploration of a vastly changed political landscape following the election of President Obama, the Great Recession, the rise of the Tea Party, and the increasing political and corporate use of pseudo-grassroots endeavors- A completely revamped instructor’s manual available online at www.oup.com/us/communitypracticeThis fully revised classic text provides a comprehensive and integrated overview of the community theory and skills fundamental to all areas of social work practice. Broad in scope and intensive in analysis, it is suitable for undergraduate as well as graduate study. Community Practice offers students and practitioners the tools necessary to promote the welfare of individuals and communities by tapping into the ecological foundations of community and social work practice.

Community Practice Theories and Skills for Social Workers 3rd Table of contents:

Chapter 1: 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

Part I: Understanding the Social Environment and Social Interaction

Chapter 2: Theory-Based, Model-Based Community Practice

  • A Conceptual Framework for Practice

  • Theories for Understanding Community Practice

  • Additional Frameworks

  • Traditional Models of Community Organization

Chapter 3: 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

Chapter 4: The Concept of Community in Social Work Practice

  • Basic Community Concepts

  • The Changing U.S. Community

  • Perspectives for Practice

  • Community Functions

  • Conclusion

Part II: Community Practice Skills for Social Workers: Using the Social Environment

Chapter 5: 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

Chapter 6: Using Assessment in Community Practice

  • Assessment as a Basic Social Work Process

  • Assessment: Information-Gathering Methodologies

  • Integrating Methods to Suit Assessment Needs

Chapter 7: 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

Chapter 8: 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

Chapter 9: 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

Chapter 10: 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

Chapter 11: 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

Chapter 12: 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

Chapter 13: Using Organizing: Acting in Concert

  • Community Organizing and Organizations

  • Community Building

  • Asset-Based Community Building

  • Using Community Assets

  • Focus, Focus

  • The Theme of Connecting

Chapter 14: 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

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