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      The Handbook of Social Work and Social Development in Africa
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      The Handbook of Social Work and Social Development in Africa book

      Edited ByMel Gray
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2016
      eBook Published 8 November 2016
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315557359
      Pages 446
      eBook ISBN 9781315557359
      Subjects Area Studies, Health and Social Care, Politics & International Relations
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      Gray, M. (Ed.). (2016). The Handbook of Social Work and Social Development in Africa (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315557359

      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

      chapter |12 pages

      Introduction

      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

      ByMel Gray, Samuel Bernard Ariong

      chapter 2|14 pages

      Has social work come of age? Revisiting the authentisation debate 25 years on

      ByIbrahim A. Ragab

      part |2 pages

      Part 2 Established areas of practice

      chapter 3|10 pages

      Social work practice in Lesotho’s Ministry of Social Development

      ByJotham Dhemba, Masealimo Marumo

      chapter 4|13 pages

      Social work and social protection in Ghana

      ByRose Korang-Okrah, Alice Boateng, Augustina Naami, Akosua Obuo Addo

      chapter 5|12 pages

      Social protection and social work practice in Zambia

      ByFred Moonga

      chapter 6|12 pages

      Social work practice with children in Botswana: issues, challenges, and future prospects

      ByPelonomi M. Letshwiti-Macheng, Rodreck Mupedziswa

      chapter 7|12 pages

      Social work practice in child and family welfare in Ghana

      ByKwabena Frimpong-Manso, Anastasia Kpei Mawudoku

      chapter 8|13 pages

      The role of social work in the protection of vulnerable children: lessons from Zimbabwe

      ByMildred Mushunje

      chapter 9|12 pages

      Decolonising childcare practice in rural Zimbabwe: embracing local cultures

      ByEdmos Mtetwa, Munyaradzi Muchacha

      chapter 10|12 pages

      Social work practice with older people: perspectives from East Africa

      ByHelmut Spitzer, Zena M. Mabeyo

      chapter 11|11 pages

      Social work engagement in the community-based care of older people in Namibia

      ByJanetta Ananias, Leigh-Ann Salonika Namdis Black, and Herman Strydom

      chapter 12|12 pages

      Community-based rehabilitation (CBR) in Uganda: a role for social work?

      ByCharlotte Persson

      chapter 13|13 pages

      The role of social workers in the social management of epilepsy in Africa

      ByJacob Mugumbate, Harmiena Riphagen, Rosemary Gathara

      chapter 14|9 pages

      Improving mental healthcare in Ghana: the role of social work practice

      chapter 15|13 pages

      15Social work practice in Ethiopian civil society organisations for people living with HIV and AIDS

      ByWassie Kebede, Ashenafi Hagos

      chapter 16|12 pages

      Providing a Lifeline for female survivors of human trafficking in Ghana

      ByDavid Okech, Alexis Danikuu

      chapter 17|12 pages

      Social justice and the moral question: foregrounding the paradox of teenage motherhood and education in Uganda

      ByAnnah Kamusiime, Doris M. Kakuru

      chapter 18|14 pages

      Same-sex relationships among women in Botswana: developmental challenges for society and social work

      ByGloria Jacques

      part |2 pages

      Part 3 Developmental social work in emerging areas of practice

      chapter 19|13 pages

      Poverty alleviation, development, and social work practice in West Africa: a focus on Senegal

      ByJessica H. Jönsson

      chapter 20|15 pages

      Social protection and social work in Uganda

      ByPaul Bukuluki, Ronard Mukuye, John-Bosco Mubiru

      chapter 21|10 pages

      Decolonising social work practice in Nigeria: moving beyond indigenisation to development

      ByErnest Osas Ugiagbe

      chapter 22|11 pages

      Violence against children in Malawi and social work

      ByBrendan Ross, Karen Smith Rotabi, Nankali Maksud

      chapter 23|12 pages

      Vyama in Kenya: an Afrocentric strengths-based approach to community development

      ByGidraph G. Wairire, John Muiruri

      chapter 24|11 pages

      Community development in South Africa: collective action for social change

      ByLambert Engelbrecht, Mornay Pretorius

      chapter 25|13 pages

      Social work practice in Rwanda: the challenge of adapting Western models to fit local contexts

      chapter 26|13 pages

      Post-conflict humanitarian assistance in northern Uganda: the social work role

      chapter 27|11 pages

      Social work practice with war-related humanitarian refugees through the Refugee Law Project in Uganda

      chapter 28|15 pages

      Strengthening Tanzania’s social welfare workforce to provide ongoing paraprofessional support services to vulnerable children and families

      ByLeah N. Omari, Nathan L. Linsk, Sally Mason

      chapter 29|15 pages

      Social work practice in the NGO sector in Uganda and Kenya: opportunities and challenges

      ByJanestic M. Twikirize

      chapter 30|11 pages

      Addressing gender inequality among girls and women: role of social work in the Girl Power Programme in Zambia

      ByMichelo Chilwalo, Joseph Mumba Zulu, Lazarus Mwale
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