Speaks to the realities of doing community work, often in difficult situations.
A strong emphasis on the personal/professional development aspects of community practice, mostly ignored by other writers.
Updates with regard to current issues : for instance, chapters/sections on information technology, many different dimensions of community practice, the climate emergency, and community responses to Covid 19
Introduction
Part 1: Understanding Community Work and Yourself
1. What Are Community Development, Social Action and Social Planning?
2. Different Dimensions of Community Work Practice
3. Planning for Effective Community Work
4. Survival, Professional Development, and Reflective Practice
Part 2: Community Development and Community Action
5. Helping People Set Up and Run Community Groups
6. Technical Knowledge and Skill Relating to Community Development and Community Action
7. Wider Dimensions of Field Level Practice
8. Using Information Technology, the Internet, Digital and Mobile Technologies
9. Evaluating Community Work
10. Ideology, Social Change, and Community Work
11. Broad-Based Community Organizing
Part 3: Social Planning Approaches
12. Social Planning in Community Work
13. Management and Partnership Working
Part 4: Specialist Community Work and Advanced Practice
14. Specialist Community Work
15. Advanced Community Work Practice
16. Strategic Approaches to Community Work
17. Conclusions and a Look to the Future
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