Showing papers in "International Social Work in 2002"
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TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors provided a general background on the structure of emergent community services and illustrated the operation of the community services for the elderly people, and the strengths and limitations of community services would be discussed.
Abstract: This is a study of community-based social services for the frail elderly in China. As China is turning into an ageing society and the capacity of the family support for the frail elderly is rapidly declining, there is an urgent need to develop formal social services to support elderly persons to continue to live in their community. This paper provides a general background on the structure of the emergent community services. With the use of an example of a city in China, the operation of the community services for the elderly people would be illustrated. Finally, the strengths and limitations of community services would be discussed.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the role of social change in the thinking of social workers in different national settings and found that social change has been regarded as one of their primary professional objectives and that social conditions were the prime cause of deprivation and poverty.
Abstract: The goal of this article is to contribute to our understanding of the way in which students at the very beginning of their social work training view the sources of social problems and the way in which society should deal with these problems. This is part of an effort to determine the contemporary role of social change in the thinking of social workers in different national settings. Traditionally, social work has regarded social change as one of its primary professional objectives. Ever since the settlement houses were first established in the late years of the 19th century, many social workers have indeed been actively involved in social action aimed at bringing about social reform for the betterment of deprived segments of society. These efforts first took place in a period during which the term "welfare state" had yet to be coined and the notion of state responsibility for social protection for the poor was not widely accepted. Nevertheless, the conviction of these early social workers that social conditions were the prime cause of deprivation and poverty led them to actively seek improved social legislation and programs (Addams, 1910: Leighninger and Midgley, 1997). Comments Copyright Sage Publications. Postprint version. Published in International Social Work, Volume 45 Issue 1, 2002, pages 59-81. The authors assert their right to include this material in the Scholarly Commons@Penn. This journal article is available at ScholarlyCommons: http://repository.upenn.edu/spp_papers/14 ! "# $ % & ''(') *( +(''(' , '('.('
TL;DR: The authors investigated how student social workers commencing their professional education in Australia, Canada, USA and the UK rank the importance of selected social work aims based on a cross-national project.
Abstract: The connections between gender, ethics and social work are complex. Based on a cross-national project, this article investigates how student social workers commencing their professional education in Australia, Canada, the USA and the UK rank the importance of selected social work aims. The equivocal findings from a statistical analysis of gender, age and university of enrolment pose interesting questions for further exploration.
TL;DR: The community mental health philosophy which guides the development of the limited resources available in Africa is one that offers us in the developed world much to consider, as the authors continue to stoke the fires of human development in Africa.
Abstract: The community mental health philosophy which guides the development of the limited resources available in Africa, is one that offers us in the developed world much to consider, as we continue to st ...
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a survey of the major players in the field of digital advertising, including the following three major companies: Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and IBM.
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