Overview
- Outlines an understanding of the social "by nature"
- Embeds social work in common care
- Presents ecology as an internal view of living together
- Is an innovative theoretical approach to care processes
- Contextualises caring in the space of living together – locally and globally
- Guides social professionals as stewards in the preservation and promotion of welfare
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Social Work (BRIEFSSOWO)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book offers an ecological foundation for social work and for care provision in general. It presents the ecosocial approach according to its origins, distinguishing it from other theoretical social work approaches and applying it to various areas of care for welfare. The ecological anchoring of social welfare and common care is an emerging topic in political, organisational, and person-related development of human services and social work. In an era of crisis, this anchoring is an essential contribution to the study of sustainable social provision. The book embeds the dispositions about it in the ecology of the protection and securing of common life.
Ecology of Common Care: The Ecosocial Approach as a Theory of Social Work and Human Service is an essential text that should engage the academic community of educators and researchers in social work and other human services professions, as well as students in bachelor's and master's programmes in these professions.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Prof. Dr. phil. Wolf Rainer Wendt studied philosophy, psychology, and sociology and then practiced in youth welfare. Since 1978 he has been professor and Head of the Department of Social Work at the Berufsakademie Stuttgart, now the Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University (DHBW) Stuttgart in Germany. He was co-founder and chairman (1993 to 2009) of the German Association of Social Work (DGSA), and also was chairman (2004 to 2015) of the German Society for Care and Case Management (DGCC). In 2003 he received an honorary professorship at the University of Tübingen in Germany. He has written a number of books (in German) on the theory and history of social work, the social economy and care and case management.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ecology of Common Care
Book Subtitle: The Ecosocial Approach as a Theory of Social Work and Human Service
Authors: Wolf Rainer Wendt
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Social Work
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65699-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-65698-0Published: 12 February 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-65699-7Published: 11 February 2021
Series ISSN: 2195-3104
Series E-ISSN: 2195-3112
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 79
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Education, general, Ethics and Values in Social Work, Social Work, Social Care, Politics of the Welfare State, Applied Ecology