Social Work and Social Problems: Working towards Social Inclusion and Social Change

This book describes how social work teams can respond to social problems in a way that both deals with immediate need and helps build community capacity. The authors recognise the need to respond appropriately to crisis where vulnerable children and adults are at risk, but argue that an inappropriate response can compound and perpetuate people's problems. They suggest that social care organisations need to go beyond operating as aid agencies focusing on the needs of individuals, and should increase their development capacity by working with other agencies and citizens to make communities more supportive and inclusive for vulnerable and excluded people.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgements
Prologue
Introduction
Reinventing Social Work: Key Themes and Tasks
Formulating the Task: Aid or Development?
Mapping the Task and Processes
Social Problems, Social Control and Patterns of Interaction
Managing and Mapping Change
Assessment and Intervention
Overcoming Blocks to Change
Independence and Marginality
Core Skills: The Joining Skills
Core Skills: The Intervention Skills
Epilogue
Index.

GERRY SMALE is Director of Development at the National Institute of Social Work and Visiting Professor at the University of Southampton. He has carried out staff and management development programmes and consultancies throughout the UK and in the US. He is currently working with young people who are developing their own services.

GRAHAM TUSON is Director of the Diploma in Social Work Programme at Southampton University. A qualified social worker with wide-ranging experience, he has spent much of his professional life in social work education focusing on the development of practice theory and interactional skills training.

DAPHNE STATHAM became Director of the National Institute for Social Work following nearly 20 years in social work education. Throughout her career she has maintained contact with practice through voluntary work on women's issues. Her writing has concentrated on women and, more recently, on the future shape of personal support and services. She is the author, with Jalna Hanmer, of Women and Social Work (second edition).

GERRY SMALE is Director of Development at the National Institute of Social Work and Visiting Professor at the University of Southampton. He has carried out staff and management development programmes and consultancies throughout the UK and in the US. He is currently working with young people who are developing their own services.

GRAHAM TUSON is Director of the Diploma in Social Work Programme at Southampton University. A qualified social worker with wide-ranging experience, he has spent much of his professional life in social work education focusing on the development of practice theory and interactional skills training.

DAPHNE STATHAM became Director of the National Institute for Social Work following nearly 20 years in social work education. Throughout her career she has maintained contact with practice through voluntary work on women's issues. Her writing has concentrated on women and, more recently, on the future shape of personal support and services. She is the author, with Jalna Hanmer, of Women and Social Work (second edition).