Community Practice: Theories and Skills for Social Workers by David A. Hardcastle, Patricia R. Powers, Stanley Wenocur

By David A. Hardcastle, Patricia R. Powers, Stanley Wenocur

For nearly twenty years, group perform has been a definitive textual content for social employees, neighborhood practitioners, and scholars wanting to support members give a contribution to and use group assets or paintings to alter oppressive neighborhood buildings. during this 3rd variation, a wealth of latest charts and situations highlight the linkages among theoretical orientations and functional abilities, with an more suitable emphasis at the inherently political nature of social paintings and group perform. packing containers, examples, and routines illustrate the variety of abilities and methods to be had to savvy group practitioners within the twenty first century, together with networking, advertising and marketing and staging, political advocacy, and leveraging details and communique applied sciences. different beneficial properties include:- New fabric on neighborhood perform ethics, severe perform abilities, group evaluation and resources stock and mapping, social challenge research, and making use of group ractice talents to casework perform- attention of post-9/11 group demanding situations- dialogue at the altering ethnic composition of the US and what this implies for practitioners- An exploration of a tremendously replaced political panorama following the election of President Obama, the nice Recession, the increase of the Tea get together, and the expanding political and company use of pseudo-grassroots endeavors- a totally made over instructor's handbook to be had on-line at www.oup.com/us/communitypractice This totally revised vintage textual content presents a entire and built-in evaluate of the neighborhood idea and abilities basic to all parts of social paintings perform. wide in scope and in depth in research, it's compatible for undergraduate in addition to graduate research. group perform bargains scholars and practitioners the instruments essential to advertise the welfare of people and groups via tapping into the ecological foundations of neighborhood and social paintings perform.

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They had options. But ethical behavior is behavior mandated by ethical standards irrespective of a government’s desires. Otherwise there is no need for ethics—simply do what you are told to do by the government or employer: I was only following orders. There are substantial risks to pragmatic selfinterests and possible conflicts between ethical behavior and pragmatic interests involved in the ethical examples discussed in the following sections.

Hardina (2002, pp. 28–31) argues that celibacy is hardly a viable solution. She presents a series of reasonable guidelines to govern the community practitioner’s sexual relations (perhaps most relationships) with community organization participants and constituents, focusing on the nature of the power relationship between the potential sexual partners. The community practitioner should: • Avoid sexual relationships when the partners have a superordinate–subordinate community or organizational relationship • Not use the community organization position in any way to promote a sexual relationship or any other relationship that can lead to a conflict of interest or harm the partner in any in the community.

It goes beyond specific professional ethical codes. ” The late Peter Drucker (1974), the management guru and social theorist, asserted: Men and women do not acquire exemption from ordinary rules of personal behavior because of their work or job. . The first responsibility of a professional was spelled out clearly 2,500 years ago, in the Hippocratic oath . . ” No professional . . can promise that he will indeed do good for his client. All he can do is try. But he can promise he will not knowingly do harm.

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