Social Work in the Frame of a Professional Competencies Approach

Guides readers in the development of a national social work competency framework Shows how to contextualize a social work competency framework Guides social work schools in the evaluation of education outcomes through the competency framework

Auteur

Ana Opacic, PhD, is an associate professor at the Social Work Study Center, Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb in Croatia. She was a project leader on a collaborative research project Social Work in Social Welfare Centers in the Republic of Croatiä in which the aim was to develop, measure and validate a national framework of professional competencies. She has more than 10 years of experience in teaching theory of social work at the baccalaureate, master's and postgraduate doctorate levels. She is one of the authors of the university textbook Theory of Social Work and author of many articles about social work in domestic and international peer-reviewed journals.

Ana Opacic is very active in professional associations, namely Croatian Chamber of Social Workers and Croatian Association of Social Workers. She is engaged in statutory bodies dealing with professional standards and competencies in social work.

Contenu
Chapter 1. Introduction .- Chapter 2. Framing Father Engagement.- Chapter 3. Engaging Individual Fathers and Families from a Developmental and Family Systems Perspective.- Chapter 4. Engaging Fathers within Programs, Organizations, and Systems.- Chapter 5. Engaging Fathers in Research and Evaluation.- Chapter 6. Assessment with Fathers: Recognizing Strengths, Challenges, and Contexts.- Chapter 7. Organizational Father Friendly Assessments.- Chapter 8. Framing Interventions with Fathers.- Chapter 9. Expanding Our Understanding of Public Policies to Support Father Involvement .- Chapter 10. Group Work with Fathers in Federal Pretrial Detention and a Community-Based Residential Setting: Reflections on Practice and Policies Across Contexts .- Chapter 11. Engaging Fathers in Child Welfare and Foster Care Settings: Promoting Paternal Contributions to the Safety, Permanency, and Well-being of Children and Families.- Chapter 12. Father-Friendly School Interventions: Helping Schools Create Engagement Opportunities .- Chapter 13. Fathers' Participation in Early Childhood Programs.- Chapter 14. Fathers and Child Support: How Money Transfers and Other Interactions Impact Family Dynamics.- Chapter 15. Engaging Fathers in Intimate Partner Violence Interventions .- Chapter 16. Setting the Course for Future Theory, Research, and Practice with Fathers.