Remaking Social Work for the New Global Era
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Beschreibung
Future social work practice requires a holistic framework to deal effectively with the great social and economic disruptions of this unprecedented time. Innovation and creativity are indispensable to empowering social workers and social service organizations to make an impact on the lives of people and societies in today's world. This book provides a range of innovative practices of social work drawing from alternate theories and with a global orientation. It is forward-looking with a focus on social resilience, social inclusion and recovery. Using a strengths perspective, discussions in the chapters provide useful insights in restructuring social life and social services at the individual as well as community and societal levels for meeting the challenges of a new global era.
The chapters draw on the experiences of the authors in their academic and practice engagements and focus on a variety of arenas of social work education and practice to enrich the understandingof the present and future of the field. Authors discuss theoretical and conceptual models to review social work education and practice of engaging in a fast-changing global era and complex contexts. Topics explored include:
- New Era for Social Work in the Global Future
- Remaking Social Work by Applying an Anti-oppressive Lens
- Vulnerability and Resilience of Refugee Women and Children
- Critical Green Social Work as Futuristic Social Work Practice
- Globalisation and the Future of Social Work Practice and Education
- Equipping Social Workers for a New Global Era
Future social work practice requires a holistic framework to deal effectively with the great social and economic disruptions of this unprecedented time. Innovation and creativity are indispensable to empowering social workers and social service organizations to make an impact on the lives of people and societies in today's world. This book provides a range of innovative practices of social work drawing from alternate theories and with a global orientation. It is forward-looking with a focus on social resilience, social inclusion and recovery. Using a strengths perspective, discussions in the chapters provide useful insights in restructuring social life and social services at the individual as well as community and societal levels for meeting the challenges of a new global era.
The chapters draw on the experiences of the authors in their academic and practice engagements and focus on a variety of arenas of social work education and practice to enrich the understanding of the present and future of the field. Authors discuss theoretical and conceptual models to review social work education and practice of engaging in a fast-changing global era and complex contexts. Topics explored include:
- New Era for Social Work in the Global Future
- Remaking Social Work by Applying an Anti-oppressive Lens
- Vulnerability and Resilience of Refugee Women and Children
- Critical Green Social Work as Futuristic Social Work Practice
- Globalisation and the Future of Social Work Practice and Education
- Equipping Social Workers for a New Global Era
Features global perspectives on the future of social work Empowers for social inclusion with a critical analytical perspective Offers alternate models for innovative social intervention
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Ngoh Tiong Tan
Themen in »Remaking Social Work for the New Global Era«
the future of social work practice and education innovative social work practice global orientation and the strengths perspective holistic theoretical framework empowering social workers and social service organizations social resilience social inclusion and social integration restructuring social life at all levels social care and welfare mental health and community health professionals international social work education social work collaborations social interventions capacities of social work education, service, and research disruptions as opportunities for change & creative intervention