A co-operative inquiry about love using narrative, performative and visual methods

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naomi Joy Godden
Keyword(s):  
Rural Community ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Visual Methods ◽  
Community Practice ◽  
Social Phenomenon ◽  
Community Work ◽  
Process Outcomes ◽  
Group Members ◽  
Traditional Approaches ◽  
Collaborative Knowledge

Participatory researchers advocate using presentational arts-based methods to collectively inquire into a social phenomenon. In a co-operative inquiry in an Australian rural community, ten community workers inquired into the ‘love ethic’ in their community work practice using narrative, performative and visual methods to gather, analyse and interpret data within cycles of reflection and action. Group members collectively and democratically chose to use presentational inquiry tools such as storytelling, dialogical performance, gift-giving, drawing and other non-traditional approaches to explore the topic and generate collaborative knowledge. These methods were engaging and empowering, and supported group members to develop a love-based framework of community practice. The group’s final collective drawing depicts the roots, trunk, fruit and saplings of a tree representing the values, process, outcomes and cyclical nature of the love ethic in community work.

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. 

Rural Community Practice: Organizing, Planning, and Development

2012 ◽  
pp. 461-478 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iris Carlton-Laney ◽  
N. Yolanda Burwell ◽  
Craig White
Keyword(s):  
Rural Community ◽  
Community Practice

Rural Community Work in the 1990s

1992 ◽  
pp. 135-148
Author(s):  
David Francis ◽  
Paul Henderson
Keyword(s):  
Rural Community ◽  
Community Work

Management in Rural Community Work

1992 ◽  
pp. 115-134
Author(s):  
David Francis ◽  
Paul Henderson
Keyword(s):  
Rural Community ◽  
Community Work

Rural Community Sustainability and Social Work Practice

2016 ◽  
pp. 94-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret Alston ◽  
Kerri Whittenbury ◽  
Deborah Western
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Rural Community ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Community Sustainability

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 Clinical social work and community practice with children and youth through Carrier Sekani Family Services

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Jeremy Bissett
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Clinical Social Work ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Youth Mental Health ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Community Practice ◽  
Family Services ◽  
Therapeutic Modalities ◽  
Practical Experiences

In this report I weave the practical skills and knowledge I gained from my practicum with Carrier Sekani Family Services (CSFS) with theory related to child and youth mental health. I present human ecology as my grounding conceptual framework in my approach to wellness. I explore theoretical foundations for clinical social work, therapeutic modalities, rurality and cultural diversity through a literature review and build on these to support my practice experience. I include sections on youth mental health, Indigenous issues, ally-ship, trauma informed practice, attachment theory, connectedness, tele-mental health and rural social work practice. Services offered through Carrier Sekani’s counselling program that I have practiced include outreach, assessment, treatment planning, safety planning, referral and discharge. I connect practical experiences of working within Carrier culture as a mental health clinician to the literature and explore how I make sense of the shared and created knowledge.

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