Rural Social Work: Building and Sustaining Community Capacity (Coursesmart)

Rural Social Work: Building and Sustaining Community Capacity (Coursesmart)

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<p><b>A thoughtful text integrating strengths, assets, and capacity-building themes with contemporary issues in rural social work practice</b></p> <p>Now in its second edition, <i>Rural Social Work</i> is a collection of contributed readings from social work scholars, students, and practitioners presenting a framework for resource building based on the strengths, assets, and capacities of people, a tool essential for working with rural communities.</p> <p>This guide considers methods for social workers to participate in the work of sustaining rural communities. Each chapter features a reading integrating the themes of capacity-building and rural social work; discussion questions that facilitate critical thinking around the chapter; and suggested activities and assignments.</p> <p><i>Rural Social Work, Second Edition</i> explores:</p> <ul> <li>Important practice issues in rural communities, including the challenges of working with stigmatized populations such as gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered people, the homeless, and people living with HIV/AIDS</li> <li>Practice models that hold special promise for rural social workers, including evidence-based practice and community partnership models</li> <li>Newer research tools such as asset mapping, social network analysis, concept mapping, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS)</li> </ul> <p>Exploring how social workers can integrate the tremendous resources that exist in rural communities into their practice, <i>Rural Social Work, Second Edition</i> provides a solid introduction to the complex, challenging, and rewarding work of building and sustaining rural communities.</p>