Asset Assessments and Community Social Work Practice

by Melvin Delgado and Denise Humm-Delgado

Book Overview

The role and importance of assessment in development of health and social services are well accepted in the field, and represent the fundamental building blocks for the creation of any form of social intervention. Need assessments are, without question, the most common form of assessment in these fields. They typically, however, result in a rather narrow view of a community that stresses disease risk profiles and lists of various social problem categories...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199735840
• ISBN13: 9780199735846
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"