ABSTRACT
This handbook provides an authoritative and cutting-edge overview of current research and trends related to the emerging field of digital technology and social work.
This book is divided into six sections:
- Reframing Social Work in a Digital Society
- Shaping a Science of Social Work in the Digital Society
- Digital Social Work in Practice
- The Ethics of Digital Social Work
- Digital Social Work and the Digitalization of Welfare Institutions: Opportunities, Challenges and Country Cases
- Digital Social Work: Future Challenges, Directions and Transformations
This book, comprised of 40 specially commissioned chapters, explores the main intersections between social work theory and practice in an increasingly digitized world. Bringing a critical focus to how social work as a profession is adapting exponentially to embrace the benefits of technology, it gives specific consideration to the digitalization of the social work profession, including the ways in which social workers are using different forms of technology to provide effective services and innovative practice responses.
With chapters on big data, digital archiving, e-citizenship and inclusion, gerontechnology, children and technology, and data ethics, this book will be of interest to all social work scholars, students and professionals as well as those working in science and technology studies more broadly.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |10 pages
Introduction
part 1|67 pages
Reframing Social Work in a Digital Society
chapter 3|10 pages
Social Work
chapter 5|11 pages
Networked Relationships
part 2|99 pages
Shaping a Science of Social Work in the Digital Society
chapter 9|17 pages
Big Social Data and Social Networking Sites
chapter 13|14 pages
Social Work Research
chapter 14|13 pages
Digital Social Group Work
part 3|160 pages
Digital Social Work in Practice
part 3a|70 pages
Digital Social Work with Client Groups
chapter 17|13 pages
The Digitization of Social Work with Vulnerable Children and Older People in the Czech Republic
chapter 19|10 pages
The Use of Facebook in Social Work Practice with Families
part 3b|88 pages
Digital Social Work Methods
chapter 22|13 pages
The Interface between Technology and Domestic Violence and Abuse
chapter 23|9 pages
The Acceleration of the Implementation of Tele-Social Work as a Complementary Intervention Formula
chapter 25|9 pages
Social Innovation and Technology for Social Work
chapter 28|14 pages
Reflections on Emergency Remote Online Teaching and Learning Group Work Education During COVID-19
part 4|65 pages
The Ethics of Digital Social Work
chapter 29|15 pages
Information and Communications Technology in Social Work
chapter 31|14 pages
Artificial Intelligence and Social Work
chapter 33|11 pages
Mechanisms of Power in the Digital Age
part 5|71 pages
Digital Social Work and the Digitalization of Welfare Institutions
chapter 34|13 pages
Using Technologies as Allies in Social Work
chapter 35|23 pages
Integrating Social Work Practice and Technology Competencies
chapter 36|11 pages
Participatory Evaluation in Social Organisations Dealing with Emergency Situations
chapter 38|12 pages
Digital Social Work and Social Protection Programme
part 6|41 pages
Digital Social Work