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Community-Based Interventions: Philosophy and Action

Community-Based Interventions: Philosophy and Action

Murphy, John W.

Hardcover

Series: International Perspectives on Social Policy, Administration,

General PsychologyPoverty & Social WorkSocial Movements

ISBN10: 1489980199
ISBN13: 9781489980199
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Jan 3 2014
Pages: 169
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

For decades, community-centered social services have been promoted as an admirable ideal. Yet the concept of decentralized services delivered where people live has proved to be an elusive ideal as well, with the promise of empowerment often giving way to disinterest and apathy.

Community-Based Interventions examines the reasons community programs tend to founder and proposes a realistic framework for sustained success. The book's theoretical, philosophical and political foundations begin with the importance of context, as in local knowledge and community self-definition and engagement. Innovative, often startling, approaches to planning, design and implementation begin with the recognition that communities are not targets or locations to be fixed, but social realities whose issues require concrete answers. The variety of examples described in these chapters demonstrate the power of community interventions in providing effective services, reducing inequities and giving individuals greater control over their health, their environment and in the long run, their lives. Included in the coverage:

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