Weiss, Gal, Dixon, and their contributors provide the first
large-scale cross-national and cross-cultural examination of the
views and the perceptions of social workers through this analysis
of graduating social worker students on the threshold of their
careers in social work. They identify and analyze the graduating
social work students' attitudes towards the sources of social
distress, the preferred ways to deal with social problems, the
goals of social work, and their professional preferences with
regard to client groups, types of professional activity, and place
of work. Since first being practiced more than a century ago,
social work has become an international profession and is today an
integral part of the social services in many different countries.
However, as Weiss, Gal, Dixon, and their contributors make clear,
there is a distinct lack of ideological consensus over the goals,
tasks, desired technologies, major client groups, the preferred
sector in which to operate, and a variety of other issues.
Throughout its history, social work has undergone a constant
process of change; nonetheless, despite the existence of a common
professional core, social work is quite clearly socially
constructed and takes very different forms in the various national
settings throughout the world. This book provides the first
large-scale cross-national and cross-cultural examination of the
views and perceptions of social workers through an analysis of
graduating social worker students at the threshold of their careers
in social work. The country chapters identify and analyze the
graduating social work students' attitudes towards the sources of
social distress, the preferred ways to deal with social problems,
the goals of social work, and their professional preferences with
regard to client groups, types of professional activity, and place
of work. Experts on social work provide analyses on Australia,
Brazil, Canada, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, Israel, the United
Kingdom, the United States, and Zimbabawe.
General
| Imprint: |
Praeger Publishers Inc
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
December 2003 |
| First published: |
December 2003 |
| Editors: |
Idit Weiss
• John Gal
• John C. Dixon
|
| Dimensions: |
235 x 156 x 23mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth over boards
|
| Pages: |
248 |
| Edition: |
New |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-86569-315-9 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
General
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| LSN: |
0-86569-315-3 |
| Barcode: |
9780865693159 |
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