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The Handbook of Social Work and Social Development in Africa
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ABSTRACT
All recent books on international social work mention Africa only briefly and few engage with the broader field of development studies. This book focuses solely on the unique African context engaging with issues relating to social work and development more broadly thus enabling a deeper examination and more complex and nuanced picture to emerge. Unlike most academic works, this book highlights multiple practitioner voices, with authors or co-authors that have recently been or are currently practising social workers. As an edited book, it draws from both academic research as well as lived practice experience, supported by strong theoretical positioning and guidance in introductory chapters, drawing on African literature, wherever possible. Looking at case-studies from Lesotho, Botswana, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, Namibia, Uganda, Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, Rwanda, Zambia and Tanzania and covering established areas of practice such as child protection; working with older people; working with people with disabilities; mental health; and mainstream services targeting women as well as emerging areas of developmental social work practice, such as humanitarian assistance in post-conflict situations; work with immigrants and refugees; and the training of community-based workers, this book takes a future-oriented perspective that aims to move beyond well-worn critiques to envision constructive and sustainable futures for social work and social development in Africa from a critical perspective.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Part 1 Setting the scene
chapter 1|18 pages
Discourses shaping development, foreign aid, and poverty reduction policies in Africa: implications for social work
chapter 2|14 pages
Has social work come of age? Revisiting the authentisation debate 25 years on
part |2 pages
Part 2 Established areas of practice
chapter 3|10 pages
Social work practice in Lesotho’s Ministry of Social Development
chapter 4|13 pages
Social work and social protection in Ghana
chapter 6|12 pages
Social work practice with children in Botswana: issues, challenges, and future prospects
chapter 7|12 pages
Social work practice in child and family welfare in Ghana
chapter 8|13 pages
The role of social work in the protection of vulnerable children: lessons from Zimbabwe
chapter 9|12 pages
Decolonising childcare practice in rural Zimbabwe: embracing local cultures
chapter 10|12 pages
Social work practice with older people: perspectives from East Africa
chapter 11|11 pages
Social work engagement in the community-based care of older people in Namibia
chapter 12|12 pages
Community-based rehabilitation (CBR) in Uganda: a role for social work?
chapter 13|13 pages
The role of social workers in the social management of epilepsy in Africa
chapter 15|13 pages
15Social work practice in Ethiopian civil society organisations for people living with HIV and AIDS
chapter 16|12 pages
Providing a Lifeline for female survivors of human trafficking in Ghana
chapter 17|12 pages
Social justice and the moral question: foregrounding the paradox of teenage motherhood and education in Uganda
chapter 18|14 pages
Same-sex relationships among women in Botswana: developmental challenges for society and social work
part |2 pages
Part 3 Developmental social work in emerging areas of practice