Tecnicas de investigacion social

Introduction Understanding assessment in social work practice Tools and diagrammatic aids to assessment Developing, making and writing plans for effective social work Intervening to make a difference Reviews and the evaluation of practice Conclusion Appendix 1: Professional capabilities framework Appendix 2: Subject benchmark for social work

Social work practice

Public participation in the 21 st century is often complex, frustrating, and confusing A guide to help navigate through the labyrinth of bureaucracy and conventional participation is necessary as we strive to find ways in which our civic engagement will create a more democratic, just, and participatory country With Public Participation for 21 st Century Democracy, Tina Nabatchi and Matt Leighninger provide a history of public participation, contemplate the current state of our democracy, and offer both theory and praxis regarding how we might effectively engage in public participation to create the changes we desire This book presents more than hypothetical constructs, and instead produces concrete examples to illustrate how various methods of public participation have succeeded The authors emphasize the importance of partnerships, especially those between members of the public and the institutions that represent them Public Participation for 21 st Century Democracy offers both the hope and means for people to solve public problems, effect social change, and ensure democracy’s survival

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Public participation for 21st century democracy

The complex triangle formed by the combination of the theoretical-methodological, ethical-political and technical-operative dimensions has been invested in an oscillating and diverse way throughout the Social Work profession history. The article, based on a thematic literature review, advocates a higher appreciation of one vertex, that has been treated in a peripheral and secondary way: the technical-operative dimension. An reinforcement of investment is urgent in the professional operability, particularly in the assessment and intervention process, based on theory, evidence and reflection, but also on what guides, sustains and pursues the profession in each historical moment. Therefore, the article proposes a professional agenda for the reinforcement of the technical-operative dimension in Social Work in Portugal which requires a collective reflection about the risks of disconnection and non-specificity in the triangular professional instrumentality, rescuing the centrality of the dimension in which profession "appears".

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Por uma agenda centrada na dimensão técnico-operativa em Serviço Social: proposta portuguesa | For an agenda focused on the technical-operative dimension in Social Work: Portuguese proposal

Considering participation as a core element for Social Work practice, this article analyses engagement of Social Work students from a public participation perspective. Youth faces specific ...

Maria João Pena

Papers

Alternative model for social work undergraduate training

Research in Social work: Education, Process and Practice in Portugal