Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/arzfy7 Community Practice: Theories and Skills for Social Workers By: David A. Hardcastle Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA Print ISBN: 9780195398878, 0195398874 eText ISBN: 9780195398878, 9780199899692, 019989969X Edition: 3rd Copyright year: 2011 Format: PDF Available from $ 34.95 USD SKU 9780195398878R180 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. This 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. • Includes new material on community practice ethics, critical practice skills, community assessment and assets inventory and mapping, social problem analysis, and applying community practice skills to casework practice • Considers post-9/11 community challenges • Discusses the changing ethnic composition of America and what this means for practitioners • Explores 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 • Includes access to a completely revamped instructor's manual available online at www.oup.com/us/communitypractice
