Community Problems And Social Work In Southeast Asia

Author : Peter Hodge
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9622090222
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Community Problems and Social Work in Southeast Asia written by Peter Hodge and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 1980-12-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume of collected studies, social workers in Hong Kong and Singapore tell of their experience in attempting to resolve some of the problems that exist in the communities of these two city-states. All of the readings are 'rich, first-hand accounts of the work done and initiatives taken and, although retrospective, they remain alive and personal, of significance for any study of contemporary social development in Southeast Asia. The book aims to give students of social work, of social policy and administration, as well as the general reader, the benefit of a comparative approach. Comparative studies of the social services in Southeast Asia are still few. In the context of rapid social change the perspectives provided here of the recent history of social work in Hong Kong and Singapore will help the student to assess the progress which has been made and to understand the present provision for meeting personal and community needs of a wide variety.

Author : Ngoh Tiong Tan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351794973
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transforming Society written by Ngoh Tiong Tan and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-06 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social change affects all quarters of life and human society whether in individual neighbourhoods, communities or nations, or in the world as a whole – encompassing many issues of gender, age, social class and ethnicity. This book examines both the conceptual as well as operational aspects of social transformation and social development. It examines societal transformation at the individual, group, community, national and international levels using a range of case studies from Singapore, Asia and around the world. The four parts of this book highlight the challenges of social development; issues concerning workforce and migration; welfare, women and social care; as well as, community development and capacity building. Social development and social transformation are presented as intertwined concepts that affect citizens in profound ways from social care to social well-being, construction of social relationship as well as community life, capacity building and nation building.

Author : Alice M. L. Chong
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315514958
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Work and Sustainability in Asia written by Alice M. L. Chong and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rapid trend of globalization has brought with it a variety of sustainability challenges, including global climate change, biodiversity loss, poverty, and social inequalities, which are problems with unclear boundaries, complicated interrelated components, undefined parameters, contradictory values, and no single solution. Social work has a long-standing tradition of emphasizing the interaction of people and their environment. For this reason, the field of social work is one of the best-placed academic disciplines for studying the impact of environmental change on social systems, and should play an important role in developing strategies for mitigating and adapting to these environmental challenges. However, traditional social work tends to lack sustaining work and neglect globally interconnected social problems. Combining case studies and country reports from around Asia with a theoretical framework for understanding sustainability concerns, this book aims to show how social work can play a valuable role in mitigating and adapting to environmental challenges and social sustainability. For social work to develop a meaningful and viable profession that addresses contemporary sustainability issues, it requires changes and transformation in paradigm, theories, strategies, social policy and social services that will facilitate a sustainable future for all mankind.

Author : Christian Aspalter
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131705332X
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Work in East Asia written by Christian Aspalter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Owing to rapid economic development and the onset of population ageing, social work has become a major means of delivering social services and relieving and preventing social problems at an individual, family, and community level in East Asia. In addition to this, the number of activities undertaken by social welfare NGOs has risen a great deal throughout East Asia, resulting in a greater demand for professional social workers. With governments across the region having discovered the beneficial effects of professional social work for both social integration and social harmony, there is now greater support for the development of this academic discipline and profession. This groundbreaking volume explores the current state of development of social work provision across the region. It is the first book of its kind to investigate current and future trends, as well as the challenges and pitfalls of social work - one of the fastest-growing professions in East Asia.

Author : Ian Shaw
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429877986
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Asian Social Work written by Ian Shaw and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-28 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The countries of East and Southeast Asia, taken as a whole, display a laboratory of social and political conditions, with individual countries presenting a variety of political, cultural and social characteristics. Some with one-party state systems, others with stable liberal democracies and yet others with more fragile democratic systems. As such the region presents a unique opportunity to examine the relationship between diverse national environments and social work education regimes. In this book, social work educators and theorists from around East and Southeast Asia provide accounts of the social work programs within the higher education systems of their respective countries and compare them to those of their neighbours. This is the first book to offer a structured account of how social work and social work education have emerged and finds their present place in the historical, economic, political, urban/rural and higher education contexts of Southeast Asia and East Asia. Experts from the region assess the extent to which these countries’ systems possess a collective coherence, while examining the diversity among them.

Author : Ayano Hirose Nishihara
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319574817
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Knowledge Creation in Community Development written by Ayano Hirose Nishihara and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-08-28 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how public organizations and not-for-profit organizations (NPO) can be more collaborative, innovative and effective in solving social issues in both developing and developed countries. “Social innovation,” led by social entrepreneurs and/or social enterprises, emerged in the late 1990s, and spread in 2000s. As the West faced management failures, demand increased for corporations to take on more social responsibility. Based on intensive research on social innovation processes at the municipal and the community level in Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, and Japan, the book analyses the factors that affected the most effective and efficient social innovations.

Author : Hyun Bang Shin
Publisher : LSE Press
ISBN 13 : 1909890774
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book COVID-19 in Southeast Asia written by Hyun Bang Shin and published by LSE Press. This book was released on 2022-01-06 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: COVID-19 has presented huge challenges to governments, businesses, civil societies, and people from all walks of life, but its impact has been highly variegated, affecting society in multiple negative ways, with uneven geographical and socioeconomic patterns. The crisis revealed existing contradictions and inequalities in society, compelling us to question what it means to return to “normal” and what insights can be gleaned from Southeast Asia for thinking about a post-pandemic world. In this regard, this edited volume collects the informed views of an ensemble of social scientists – area studies, development studies, and legal scholars; anthropologists, architects, economists, geographers, planners, sociologists, and urbanists; representing academic institutions, activist and charitable organisations, policy and research institutes, and areas of professional practice – who recognise the necessity of critical commentary and engaged scholarship. These contributions represent a wide-ranging set of views, collectively producing a compilation of reflections on the following three themes in particular: (1) Urbanisation, digital infrastructures, economies, and the environment; (2) Migrants, (im)mobilities, and borders; and (3) Collective action, communities, and mutual action. Overall, this edited volume first aims to speak from a situated position in relevant debates to challenge knowledge about the pandemic that has assigned selective and inequitable visibility to issues, people, or places, or which through its inferential or interpretive capacity has worked to set social expectations or assign validity to certain interventions with a bearing on the pandemic’s course and the future it has foretold. Second, it aims to advance or renew understandings of social challenges, risks, or inequities that were already in place, and which, without further or better action, are to be features of our “post-pandemic world” as well. This volume also contributes to the ongoing efforts to de-centre and decolonise knowledge production. It endeavours to help secure a place within these debates for a region that was among the first outside of East Asia to be forced to contend with COVID-19 in a substantial way and which has evinced a marked and instructive diversity and dynamism in its fortunes.

Author : B.C. Association of Social Workers. Multicultural Concerns Committee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Resource Kit for Social Work Practice with Southeast Asian Refugees written by B.C. Association of Social Workers. Multicultural Concerns Committee and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jacques Hersh
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317882881
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Change in South East Asia written by Jacques Hersh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a comprehensive and in-depth examination of the ongoing process of development and societal transformation in a dynamic region of the Third World. Written by a team of specialists from the fields of development studies, sociology and political economy, the book looks at some of the fundamental problems facing South East Asia by addressing the following issues: the social constellations; class, culture and political legitimation; and industrialisation and labour regulation.

Author : Samuel H. Taylor
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231053686
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theory and Practice of Community Social Work written by Samuel H. Taylor and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: