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The changes in social policy have meant unplanned and unserviced deinstitutionalization, service contraction, benefit reduction, and other threats to client well-being. To cope effectively with these trends, practitioners need to expand their repertoire of organizational roles. This book provides a practical underpinning for such an expansion.

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"Focus[es] attention on the increasingly important work that social workers do to facilitate and change social arrangements." --Social Service Review "A very important contribution to the literature.This book will help to focus attention on the long neglected, but increasingly Important work that social workers do to facilitate and change social arrangements upon which clients are so vitally dependent." --Rino J. Patti, University of Washington

Agency Based Social Work

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    A Paperback / softback by Harold Weissman

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      Publisher: Temple University Press,U.S.
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 13/12/1983
      ISBN13: 9780877223306, 978-0877223306
      ISBN10: 0877223300

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The changes in social policy have meant unplanned and unserviced deinstitutionalization, service contraction, benefit reduction, and other threats to client well-being. To cope effectively with these trends, practitioners need to expand their repertoire of organizational roles. This book provides a practical underpinning for such an expansion.

      Trade Review
      "Focus[es] attention on the increasingly important work that social workers do to facilitate and change social arrangements." --Social Service Review "A very important contribution to the literature.This book will help to focus attention on the long neglected, but increasingly Important work that social workers do to facilitate and change social arrangements upon which clients are so vitally dependent." --Rino J. Patti, University of Washington

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