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Community Intervention - Clinical Sociology Perspectives (Hardcover, 2nd ed. 2022)
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Community Intervention - Clinical Sociology Perspectives (Hardcover, 2nd ed. 2022)
Series: Clinical Sociology: Research and Practice
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The second and expanded edition of this award-winning book provides
the most up-to-date and important efforts for improving the quality
of life in communities around the world. It focuses on community
improvements in relation to the interdisciplinary field of clinical
sociology. The first part of the book includes updated analyses of
important concepts and tools for community intervention. It
discusses the importance of centrally involving community members
in all phases of community development activities. Part II includes
several completely new chapters and focuses on projects in a number
of countries -- the United States, Brazil, South Africa, Canada,
the Philippines and France. It covers topics such as establishing
human rights cities; involving and empowering local communities;
research in communities; the healthy cities movement; and climate
change. This edition includes several new gender-focused chapters,
addressing local level initiatives based on the recommendations of
the Committee on the Elimination and Discrimination Against Women
(CEDAW), women in prison, and gender factors in climate risk. The
appendices include profiles of outstanding practitioners and
scholar-practitioners over the last 100 years. This edition
includes contributions from well-known scholars and practitioners
in clinical sociology and is of interest to sociologists, social
policy makers, social workers, and sustainability researchers. The
first edition of this book received the Distinguished Scholarly
Book Award from the Clinical Sociology Division of the
International Sociological Association.
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