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Not just play : summer camp and the profession of social work / Meryl Nadel, Susan Scher.
LIBRA HV40 .N193 2019
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nadel, Meryl, 1947- author.
- Scher, Susan, 1942- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social service.
- Camps--Social aspects.
- Camps.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 264 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]
- Contents:
- Natural environment as refuge, nurturer, catalyst
- Resilience and the strengths perspective in action
- Community, group, group work
- Social work and summer camp in historical perspective
- The beginnings of the summer camp movement
- From fresh air to summer camp : social work enters the picture
- Growth and development of social work camps : 1920s-1940s
- Expansive growth, changing times : 1950s-1970s
- The therapeutic camp : trends in camps for children with social-emotional challenges
- The group experience in camping : observations from Schwartz and Shulman / William Schwartz and Lawrence Shulman
- Camps and the social work profession
- Roles for social workers
- Recruitment to the profession
- Social work researchers go to camp / Dana R. Dillard, Stacey R. Kolomer, and Katharine Hanavan
- Group work orientation in the contemporary summer camp
- Social work and camps today
- Camps for many populations
- Social work students at camp : field placements and service learning at summer camp
- Opportunities and issues
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Nadel, Meryl, 1947- author. Not just play
- ISBN:
- 9780190496548
- 0190496541
- OCLC:
- 1081340124
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