Advocacy, Counselling and Mediation in Casework: Processes of Empowerment

Book Overview

This is the first study to compare advocacy, counselling and mediation as social processes of empowerment. It focuses on the user/worker partnership in care-giving services, and on the increasing imperative for cooperation between disciplines.

The contributors, who are all practitioners and leading authorities in their fields, examine the cultural and organizational contexts in which each of these media has developed as well as their potential...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 185302564X
• ISBN13: 9781853025648
• Release Date: May 1998
• Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.2"