Not Just Play: Summer Camp and the Profession of Social Work

by Susan Scher and Meryl Nadel

Camps often provide children with a first taste of independence and freedom from the restrictions of home and school while offering a milieu full of opportunities for psychosocial development, creative interaction, and mutual aid. Though summer camps have simultaneously given current and future social workers educational, practice, research, and theory-development opportunities as they direct, staff, attend, and provide supervision, the field has...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190496541
• ISBN13: 9780190496548
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"