1st Edition

Support Systems in Social Work

By Martin Davies Copyright 1977
146 Pages
by Routledge

146 Pages
by Routledge

146 Pages
by Routledge

In the late 1970s the idea of volunteer ‘helping’ in social work had recently been brought to the forefront of public attention again as society had come to depend more and more on volunteer commitment to supplement, support or even replace the professional social worker. Originally published in 1977, the three self-contained essays presented in this book are all concerned with the concept of... Read more

Preface  Part 1: Monitoring the Support Project  1. The Project  2. Operations  Part 2: Volunteers and Clients  3. Volunteers and the Schools  4. What the Volunteers Did  5. Volunteer/Client Opinions  6. Volunteers in their Social Context  Part 3: Systems Theory and Social Work  7. Background to Systems Theory  8. Language of Systems Theory.  End-Piece. Support Systems Beyond Social Work.  Bibliography.  Index.

Biography

Martin Davies