Bridging the gap between social work and community development: implementing a post-graduate training partnership.
Although, arguably, the origins of social work in the UK have been closely aligned to community development in the past few decades, social work has occupied a bureaucratic landscape focusing primarily on individual risks and needs, leading to both fields drifting further apart. Dismantling of share...
| Publicado en: | Social Work Education Vol. 43; no. 8; pp. 2218 - 2236 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Dec2024
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