Handbook of International Social Work: Human Rights, Development, and the Global Profession
Lynne M. Healy and Rosemary J. Link
Abstract
Global knowledge is increasingly essential for all aspects of social work. Today's professionals respond to concerns including permeable borders, the upheavals of war, displaced workers, natural disasters, international adoption, and human trafficking. Everywhere, social workers work with service users and colleagues from diverse cultures and countries. Globally relevant concepts such as human rights, development, and inclusion offer new perspectives to enhance policy and practice and facilitate the international exchange of ideas. This collection of seventy-three chapters confirms the integra ... More
Global knowledge is increasingly essential for all aspects of social work. Today's professionals respond to concerns including permeable borders, the upheavals of war, displaced workers, natural disasters, international adoption, and human trafficking. Everywhere, social workers work with service users and colleagues from diverse cultures and countries. Globally relevant concepts such as human rights, development, and inclusion offer new perspectives to enhance policy and practice and facilitate the international exchange of ideas. This collection of seventy-three chapters confirms the integral and necessary nature of international social work knowledge to all areas of practice, policy, and research. Chapters systematically map the key issues, organizations, competencies, training and research needs, and ethical guidelines central to international social work practice today, emphasizing the linkages among social work, development, and human rights practice. In-depth
country case studies and policy examples encourage readers to understand how their practice in social work touches on international issues, regardless of whether the work is done at home or abroad.
Keywords:
global knowledge,
social work,
human rights,
social work knowledge,
competencies,
training,
research needs,
ethical guidelines
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2011 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780195333619 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2012 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195333619.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Lynne M. Healy, Editor
University of Connecticut School of Social Work
Rosemary J. Link, Editor
Simpson College
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