Interpersonal social work skills for community practice
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Springer Publishing Company ,
c2013
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction : the application of interpersonal skills in community practice
- 2. Entering the community and using interviewing skills to find out about people
- 3. Recruiting potential participants
- 4. Developing relationships and partnerships with formal organizations
- 5. Using dialogue, story-telling, and structured group work techniques to identify community problems
- 6. Engaging participants in the discovery, assessment, and documentation of community strengths and problems
- 7. Facilitating leadership development and group decision-making : encouraging public participation and engaging constituents in the development of action plans
- 8. Taking action : group processes for implementing action campaigns
- 9. Working with constituent groups to critically reflect and engage in dialogue on the process and outcomes of action plans
- 10. Discovering whether and why the action worked : using participatory research to conduct formal evaluations
- 11. Using interpersonal skills to advocate for legislation
- 12. Interpersonal skills for community building
- 13. Supervision
- 14. Interpersonal skills in a global context : advocating for human rights
- 15. Future directions in community organizing : where do we go from here?