Agency Based Social Work - Softcover

Weissman, Harold

 
9780877223306: Agency Based Social Work

Synopsis

The changes in social policy have meant unplanned and unserviced deinstitutionalization, service contraction, benefit reduction, and other threats to client well-being. To cope effectively with these trends, practitioners need to expand their repertoire of organizational roles. This book provides a practical underpinning for such an expansion.

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About the Author

All three authors are affiliated with the Hunter College School of Social Work.

From the Inside Flap

"Focus[es] attention on the increasingly important work that social workers do to facilitate and change social arrangements."
—Social Service Review

"A very important contribution to the literature.This book will help to focus attention on the long neglected, but increasingly Important work that social workers do to facilitate and change social arrangements upon which clients are so vitally dependent."
—Rino J. Patti, University of Washington

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ISBN 10:  087722322X ISBN 13:  9780877223221
Publisher: Temple University Press, 1983
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