Overview
- Compiles a comprehensive overview of deprived communities across the globe
- Collects different concepts regarding underdeveloped communities in a single volume for the first time
- Articulates how social workers can empower deprived communities, and how social workers in deprived communities can be empowered
- Conceptualizes a new field of social work practice within broader community work
- Positions the social work profession as one that challenges inequalities, including regional inequalities
- Contributes theoretical, empirical, and practical suggestions for the advocacy and integration of social work practice within deprived communities
Part of the book series: European Social Work Education and Practice (ESWEP)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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A Conceptual Framework for Understanding Deprived Communities
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Social Work Practices in Deprived Communities Throughout the World
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Supporting Social Work Practice in Deprived Communities
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Conclusion
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Back Matter
Keywords
- deprived community
- regional inequalities
- community economic development
- remote communities
- low-income neighborhoods
- underserved communities
- community well-being
- community empowerment
- smart social services
- macro social work
- structural community change
- community capacity
- social work with scarce human resources
- social work institutions as allies to vulnerable populations
- violence prevention and neighborhood collective efficacy
- social work practice in places of resettlement
- strengthening social capital in deprived communities
About this book
Deprived communities, used in this book to mean slums, ghettos, favelas, and low-income, remote, underserved, vulnerable, impoverished, underdeveloped, disadvantaged, or less-favoured communities, exist worldwide and are conceptualized under different terms and concepts. For that reason, social work, specifically in deprived areas, is notsufficiently recognized as a specific field of practice within community work. As a result, this volume features contributions that:
- provide a conceptual clarification of many different terms that are used for describing deprived communities and offer a systematic literature review on community processes and effects on well-being in underdeveloped communities;
- map different fields of social work involvement in deprived communities with concrete practice examples; and,
- stress why social work as a profession needs support and how it can be empowered to improve its capacities in deprived communities.
With international authorship and perspectives on social work approaches for deprived communities from India, Sub-Saharan Africa, North and Central Europe, and North America, Practicing Social Work in Deprived Communities is an essential resource for social workers, social work educators, and community development practitioners. The text also should be of interest to students of social work, as well as other professionals and researchers working within community development and deprived communities.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Ana Opačić was active not solely as a researcher in deprived communities in Croatia, but was also engaged in developing service-learning programs, social services, strategic planning and evaluation of development projects. Her professional as well as personal experience is deeply connected with challenges of living in deprived communities alongside all other issues that build this experience, such as war, post-socialist transition or social inequalities.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Practicing Social Work in Deprived Communities
Book Subtitle: Competencies, Methods, and Techniques
Editors: Ana Opačić
Series Title: European Social Work Education and Practice
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65987-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-65986-8Published: 13 April 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-65989-9Published: 14 April 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-65987-5Published: 12 April 2021
Series ISSN: 2662-2440
Series E-ISSN: 2662-2459
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 265
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Social Work and Community Development, Education, general, Ethics and Values in Social Work, Social Structure, Social Inequality