Rural Social Work – Building and Sustaining Community Capacity, Second Edition

Rural Social WorkBuilding and Sustaining Community Capacity\nAuthor(s): T. Laine Scales, Calvin L. Streeter, H. Stephen Cooper\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc, United States\nImprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc\nISBN-13: 9781118445167, 978-1118445167\nSynopsis\nA thoughtful text integrating strengths, assets, and capacity-building themes with contemporary issues in rural social work practice Now in its second edition, Rural Social Work is a collection of contributed readings from social work scholars, students, and practitioners presenting a framework for resource building based on the strengths, assets, and capacities of people, a tool essential for working with rural communities. This guide considers methods for social workers to participate in the work of sustaining rural communities. Each chapter features a reading integrating the themes of capacity-building and rural social work; discussion questions that facilitate critical thinking around the chapter;.