Community Social Work Practice in an Urban Context —— The Potential of a Capacity-Enhancement Perspective

----- 城市背景下的社区社会工作实践：能力提升视角的潜力

ISBN: 9780195125474 出版年：2009 页码：284 Delgado, Melvin Oxford University Press

Community social work practice based on a capacity enhancement model offers tremendous potential for unifying communities consisting of groups from very different cultural backgrounds, and in the process of doing so, make physical changes in the community. Community Social Work Practice in An Urban Context aims to teach graduate students with an emphasis on community and urban social work how to create positive community environments in marginalized urban-based communities. The use of murals, gardens, playgrounds, and sculptures, for example provide social workers with an opportunity to identify, engage, and plan services with communities. These projects, in turn, are based upon a community's strengths and represent an effort at developing a community's capacity to help itself with assistance from professionals.