Asset-based approaches : their rise, role and reality / Fiona Garven, Director, Scottish Community Development Centre, Jennifer McLean, Public Health Programme Manager, Glasgow Centre for Population Health, and Lisa Pattoni, Head of Innovation and Improvement, Institute for Research and Innovation in Social Services.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-133) and index.
Contents
Front cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Glossary -- Author Biographies -- Introduction -- Setting the Scene: Asset-based approaches, why now? -- Defining Asset-Based Approaches -- What Difference Do Asset-Based Approaches Make? -- Exploring the Nature of Evidence for Asset-Based Approaches -- Creating the Conditions: What helps -- Key Challenges: What is stopping us? -- Reflection -- References -- Index -- back cover.
Summary
An overview of the evidence for asset based approaches, away from doing things to people in favour of doing things with them, when working with individuals, groups and communities.
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