Articles reprinted from scholarly journals, along with some book chapters, examine the realities of community creation, sustenance, and enhancement. The case of the location of a homeless shelter in a college town illustrates tactics in community development, while other articles consider issues of assessment, decision making, mobilization, and adm

Here is the only book that gives you a comparison of model frameworks and a critique of multiple perspectives. Community Practice: Conceptual Models (along with its companion volume, Community Practice: Models in Action) illustrates the diverse ways that community practice is conceived and delineates both the central and subtle differences among models to guide community assessment, action planning, and practice. By knitting together the complex ideas from the social sciences and community practice, this book shows how to combine these ideas to improve teaching, practice, analysis, and research for social work faculty; social work students; practitioners in community work, administration, and social planning; and faculty of related disciplines. The scope of Community Practice: Conceptual Models is broad, providing the first historical report on model development and implementation since 1965. Its chapters present diverse views on community practice approaches and provide the compilation, critique, and analysis of current models --while illustrating how these approaches developed over time. Included is Rothman’s long-awaited revision and elaboration of his 1970s classic, three models conceptual framework. Other vital topics you learn about include: collaborative community development social planning, reform movements, and social action ecological theory in community practice a feminist response and critique to Rothman’s approaches to community intervention a comparison of community practice in the U.S. and U.K., with an emphasis on nonracist practice and community-based service development Community Practice: Conceptual Models offers challenges and indicates directions for practice, theory elaboration, testing, and research and shows community practice in relation to characteristics such as goals and desired outcomes, change strategies, targets of change, primary constituencies, and focus or scope of concern. This book provides the strongest perspectives on community practice to help you improve your practice, assessments, action plans, and research.

This comprehensive handbook, the first in its field, brings together 106 different contributors. The 38 interrelated but at the same time independent chapters discuss key areas including conceptual frameworks; empirically grounded constructs; intervention strategies and tactics; social systems; designs, assessment, and analysis; cross-cutting professional issues; and contemporary intersections with related fields such as violence prevention and HIV/AIDS.

In Research Strategies for Community Practice, you’ll discover how you can more effectively work together with other practitioners and researchers in the interests of knowledge development and practice assessment. You’ll also gain access to the conceptual rationale, research design process, and research utilization process necessary for success in the context of community organizing.Research Strategies for Community Practice raises crucial issues for you and other community practitioners. In chapters on historical research strategies, you’ll discover the need for reform in research procedures, which will aid you in setting goals, establishing political agendas, and exploring new policy directions. In the chapters covering community network analysis, you’ll find human service and support systems. Specifically, your understanding of this vital area of community practice will develop and flourish in these and many other important areas: uses of historical research assessment, planning, and evaluation through network analysis single system research design the research process in community-based empowerment systems collaborative research participants in the context of adolescent healthReaders from all backgrounds, including doctoral students in social work, sociology, and public administration who have an interest in community practice, will want to take a look inside the proven techniques and sound research in Research Strategies for Community Practice. You’ll find a practical community of professional researchers and practitioners who have compiled the most successful strategies for conducting and bettering research in your community practice.

Psychological Crisis Intervention: The SAFER-R Model is designed to provide the reader with a simple set of guidelines for the provision of psychological first aid (PFA). The model of psychological first aid (PFA) for individuals presented in this volume is the SAFER-R model developed by the authors. Arguably it is the most widely used tactical model of crisis intervention in the world with roughly 1 million individuals trained in its operational and derivative guidelines. This model of PFA is not a therapy model nor a substitute for therapy. Rather it is designed to help crisis interventionists stabile and mitigate acute crisis reactions in individuals, as opposed to groups. Guidelines for triage and referrals are also provided. Before plunging into the step-by-step guidelines, a brief history and terminological framework is provided. Lastly, recommendations for addressing specific psychological challenges (suicidal ideation, resistance to seeking professional psychological support, and depression) are provided.

The Encyclopedia of Community is a major four volume reference work that seeks to define one of the most widely researched topics in the behavioural and social sciences. Community itself is a concept, an experience, and a central part of being human. This pioneering major reference work seeks to provide the necessary definitions of community far beyond the traditional views.