The essential skills-based guide for navigating global social work and ethical practice. A comprehensive guide for global practitioners, this text challenges unfettered adaptations of Eurocentric approaches and equips social workers with essential skills for effective context specific global practice throughout the lifespan. Integrating insights from both the Global South and North, it fosters a robust knowledge base, emphasizing using self to promote the wellbeing of the populations that social workers work with. This book is a crucial resource for both classroom learning and fieldwork. The text covers competencies, practice methods, theory, and research for global social work with diverse populations. It encourages observation and modeling of roles at micro, mezzo, and macro levels, preparing students to implement locally driven solutions and amplify marginalized voices. Addressing sustainability in resource-limited contexts, it provides strategies for stakeholder engagement and cross-sectoral approaches. Learning is reinforced through review questions, skills-related exercises, and application challenges throughout the chapters. Spotlight boxes, toolkits, and case studies also strengthen understanding of global social work and navigating ethical challenges. Purchase includes online access via most mobile devices or computers. Key Features: Defines the parameters of global social work. Explores cultural participatory methods to engage diverse populations. Tackles theories, ethical dilemmas, and reflexivity in global social work. Evaluates theoretical frameworks from both Global North and Global South perspectives. Develops a toolkit for culturally competent practice. Provides frameworks for self-awareness, cultural competence, locally driven development, capacity building, and cross-sectoral social work. Builds competencies for navigating ethical tensions related to poverty, oppression, discrimination, social justice, and diversity.
Gina Chowa, PhD, MSW, is the Associate Dean for Global Engagement, Johnson-Howard-Adair Distinguished Professor, and Director of Global Social Development Innovations at the School of Social Work, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Contributors Foreword Preface Acknowledgments PART I. INTRODUCTION TO GLOBAL SOCIAL WORK: DEFINITION, CONTEXT, THEORIES, AND FRAMEWORKS Chapter 1. What Is Global Social Work Practice? Gina Chowa and Manohar Pwar Chapter 2. Global Development Key Players Christina Olenik Chapter 3. Theories and Context of Global Social Work Practice: Decentering Eurocentric Theories Gina Chowa, Kelly Grobbelaar, and April Parker Chapter 4. Measuring Global Development Progress Gina Chowa, Joan Wangui Wanyama, and Daniels Akpan Chapter 5. Indigenization of Global Social Work: Promoting Local Knowledge in Practice Mauricio Yabar and Neil Bilotta Chapter 6. Ethical Dilemmas in Global Social Work Neil Bilotta, Ilana Shtivelman, Joan Wangui Wanyama, and Gina Chowa Chapter 7. Who Is a Global Social Worker: Critical Self-Reflexivity, Power and Privilege and Cultural Competence? Asha Banu and Ankur Srivastava PART II. PRACTICE MODELS OF GLOBAL SOCIAL WORK: SKILLS BUILDING FOR GLOBAL SOCIAL WORKERS Chapter 8. Participatory Methods for Global Social Work Practice Lauren Graham Chapter 9. Engaging Stakeholders in Framing and Solving Problems in Global Social Work Benjamin Lough and Gina Chowa Chapter 10. Implementing Programs and Building Local Capacity Using Community-Driven Methods Sobia Khan and Allison Metz Chapter 11. Cross-Sectoral Models to Inform Policy and Promote Sustainability in Global Social Work David Okech, Haja Ramatulai Wurie, Elyssa Schroeder, and Reuben Lewis Chapter 12. Monitoring and Evaluation in Global Social Work Thomas M. Crea, Lyndsey D. McMahan, and Sarah E. Neville PART III. LINKING PRACTICE, RESEARCH, AND POLICY IN GLOBAL SOCIAL WORK Chapter 13. Linking Evidence and Best-Practices in Global Social Work Gina Chowa and Miranda Manzanares Index
