The rights of the child enabling community development to contribute to a valid social work practice with children at risk

2012 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Young ◽  
Margaret McKenzie ◽  
Liv Schjelderup ◽  
Cecilie Omre
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Children At Risk ◽  
Rights Of The Child

More Than Place-Based: Viewing Geography on a Continuum and the Implications for Social Work Practice

2018 ◽  
Vol 99 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason T. Carbone ◽  
Stephen Edward McMillin
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
New Method ◽  
Work Activities ◽  
Community Membership ◽  
Community Rights ◽  
The Social

Communities play an important role within the field of social work as the context within which specific social work activities occur. To date, much of the social work literature divides communities into the mutually exclusive, dichotomous categories of geographic and functional communities. The authors propose a new method for defining community that views geography on a continuum and suggests that membership within a community is moderated by place. The concept of place-moderated communities is applied to specific examples, and the application to social work practice is discussed within the context of community membership, community engagement, community rights, and community development efforts.

scholarly journals Incorporating community development into social work practice within the neoliberal environment

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 38-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenny Aimers ◽  
Peter Walker
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Community Work ◽  
Core Subject ◽  
Work Education

Community development is a core subject in social work education, yet social work discourse often places community development at its margins (Mendes, 2009). This article considers the location of community development and community work within the current neoliberal environment in New Zealand and how such practice can be sustained by social workers in the community and voluntary sector. Community development is a way of working with communities that has a ‘bottom up’ approach as an alternative to State (top down) development. Over recent years, however, successive New Zealand governments have embraced neoliberal social policies that have marginalised community development. In addition the term ‘community work’ has been used to describe activities that have little to do with a bottom up approach thereby making it difficult to define both community development and community work. By applying a ‘knowledge intersections’ schema to two New Zealand community and voluntary organi- sations we identify where community development and social work intersect. From this basis we challenge social workers to consider ways in which community development can be embedded within their practice. 

Slums and Affordable Housing

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bonnie Young Laing
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Urban Slums ◽  
Slum Dwellers ◽  
Global Arena ◽  
General Community

By the year 2035, slums may become the primary living environment for the world’s urban dwellers. This entry explores key definitions, causes, and characteristics of slums in the global arena, along with the types of social-work practice and general community development approaches being used to catalyze action to decrease the prevalence of slums. Core strategies include using pro–poor planning efforts that empower slum dwellers, creating affordable housing, and otherwise transitioning urban slums into vibrant communities. Concluding thoughts and further considerations for practice are offered to close the entry.

Community Development with Older Adults in Their Neighborhoods: The Elder Friendly Communities Program

2005 ◽  
Vol 86 (3) ◽  
pp. 401-409 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol D. Austin ◽  
Elizabeth Des Camp ◽  
David Flux ◽  
Robert W. McClelland ◽  
Jackie Sieppert
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Community Practice ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Gerontological Social Work ◽  
Multicultural Practice ◽  
Development Practice

In this article, the authors report on lessons drawn from more than 3 years of experience with seniors-led community development at the neighborhood level, the Elder Friendly Communities Program (EFCP). Although community practice has a long history in social work, it has been largely neglected with older adults. Based on analysis of qualitative data, the authors discuss key themes that inform community development practice with seniors including (a) challenging the dominant paradigm of community-based service delivery, (b) efficiency and sustainability, (c) expectations and perceptions of expertise, (d) involvement and leadership, and (e) multicultural practice. With a growing and increasingly healthy elder population, it is time to expand the scope of gerontological social work practice beyond a focus on disability and dependency.

scholarly journals Social workers’ power of entry in adult safeguarding concerns: debates over autonomy, privacy and protection

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. 312-322 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Stevens ◽  
Stephen Martineau ◽  
Jill Manthorpe ◽  
Caroline Norrie
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Starting Point

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore debates about the powers social workers may need to undertake safeguarding enquiries where access to the adult is denied. Design/methodology/approach The paper takes as a starting point a scoping review of the literature undertaken as part of a study exploring social work responses to situations where they are prevented from speaking to an adult at risk by a third party. Findings A power of entry might be one solution to situations where social workers are prevented from accessing an adult at risk. The paper focuses on the Scottish approach to legal powers in adult safeguarding, established by the Adult Support and Protection Act (Scotland) 2007 and draws out messages for adult safeguarding in England and elsewhere. The literature review identified that debates over the Scottish approach are underpinned by differing conceptualisations of vulnerability, autonomy and privacy, and the paper relates these conceptualisations to different theoretical stances. Social implications The paper concludes that the literature suggests that a more socially mediated rather than an essentialist understanding of the concepts of vulnerability, autonomy and privacy allows for more nuanced approaches to social work practice in respect of using powers of entry and intervention with adults at risk who have capacity to make decisions. Originality/value This paper provides a novel perspective on debates over how to overcome challenges to accessing adults at risk in adult safeguarding through an exploration of understandings of vulnerability, privacy and autonomy.

The Family Relationships of Older Australians at Risk of Homelessness

2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (5) ◽  
pp. 1440-1456
Author(s):  
Maree Petersen ◽  
Cameron Parsell
Keyword(s):  
Data Mining ◽  
At Risk ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Elder Abuse ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Aged Care ◽  
The Family

Abstract This article explores the links between older people’s homelessness and family relationships and aims to inform social work practice frameworks. Whilst breakdown in family relationships is widely recognised as linked to being at risk of homelessness, there is less understanding of the interplay of family, both positive and negative, with older people’s homelessness. Drawing on a study incorporating data mining of service records, this article aims to provide clarity on supportive and troubled family relationships and their links to housing crises as experienced by older Australians. The findings highlight a number of domains for social work practice including undertaking skilled assessments to understand the strengths and constraints experienced by families. Assessments will then inform intervention to support and provide resources to some families to prevent their older family members’ homelessness and to intervene in both a preventative and empowering way to address elder abuse. The implications for policy, in particular, the need for sectors of housing, aged care and health to intersect, are discussed.

Book Review: Social Work Practice with Men at Risk

2012 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 200-202
Author(s):  
J. Christopher Hall
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice

scholarly journals Democracia, participación ciudadana y funciones del trabajo social

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
pp. 3-30
Author(s):  
Tomás Alberich-Nistal ◽  
Mª Ángeles Espadas-Alcázar
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Systemic Crisis ◽  
Trabajo Social ◽  
University Training ◽  
Different Levels

El artículo comienza con unas reflexiones en torno a la situación actual de la democracia y la participación, marcada por la crisis sistémica en la que vivimos. En la segunda parte se estudian las relaciones que se dan entre la profesión y formación universitaria en Trabajo Social y de estas con los programas de participación ciudadana ejecutados desde los Servicios Sociales. En la práctica profesional del Trabajo Social en entes locales se han ido reduciendo los proyectos de desarrollo comunitario y de fomento de la participación, aunque, de forma esperanzadora, en el nuevo título de Grado en Trabajo Social se vuelven a incluir estos temas entre las competencias que deben tener los futuros graduados. En un tercer bloque se trata de definir y diferenciar mejor los conceptos que se suelen utilizar cuando se tratan estos temas: democracia representativa/participativa y participación social/ciudadana, finalizando con la descripción y análisis de los diferentes niveles y formas de participación que se re-producen en las sociedades democráticas. The article begins with some reflections on the current situation of democracy and participation, marked by the systemic crisis in which we live. In the second part we deal with the relationships that exist between the profession and university training in social work, and between those and citizen participation programs run from social services. Professional social work practice in local services has reduced community development projects and participative projects, though, hopefully, the new Degree in Social Work reinstates these issues between the skills required future graduates. In a third section we try to define and differentiate the concepts that are often used when these topics: representative/participatory democracy and social/civic participation, ending with the description and analysis of the different levels and forms of participation that are re-produced in democratic societies.  

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