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Interpersonal social work skills for community practice /
"Community organization has been a major component of social work practice since the late 19th century. It requires a diverse set of abilities, interpersonal skills being among the most important. This textbook describes the essential interpersonal skills that social workers need in community p...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Springer Publishing Company,
[2013]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : the application of interpersonal skills in community practice
- Entering the community and using interviewing skills to find out about people
- Recruiting potential participants
- Developing relationships and partnerships with formal organizations
- Using dialogue, story-telling, and structured group work techniques to identify community problems
- Engaging participants in the discovery, assessment, and documentation of community strengths and problems
- Facilitating leadership development and group decision-making : encouraging public participation in planning and engaging constituents in the development of action plans
- Taking action : group processes for implementing action campaigns
- Working with constituent groups to critically reflect and engage in dialogue on the process and outcomes of action plans
- Discovering whether and why the action worked : using participatory research to conduct formal evaluations
- Using interpersonal skills to advocate for legislation
- Interpersonal skills for community building
- Supervision
- Interpersonal skills in a global context : advocating for human rights
- Future directions in community organizing : where do we go from here?