Featuring contributions from practitioners, researchers, and academics, this volume synthesizes and analyzes current trends in rural social work practice and considers the most effective ways to serve rural communities.
The first part of the book focuses upon the experience of rurality. The second part of the book turns to the development of rural practice, reviewing different ways of working from casework through to community development.
Within the conversation surrounding rural social work, there is a consistent focus on theoretical arguments, definitions, and political concerns, and a limited discussion of direct practice. This book speaks directly...
Social Work in Rural Communities
Revised edition of the author's Rural social work in the 21st century, [2015]
The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) singles out Indigenous people, rural people and people with disabilities as three of the most disadvantaged population groups within the general Australian population (Bullock, ...
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Yes sir, maybe by the end of this century, the end of this second millennium, it'll be different here. Maybe the Lord will smile on us, and give us a better life, so you don't have a few with everything and most everybody else with ...
This fifth edition is updated throughout with 2013 census data and features new and expanded coverage of health and health care, food systems and alternatives, the effects of neoliberalism and globalization on rural communities, as well as ...
Seven Decades of Rural Social Work: From Country Life Commission to Rural Caucus