1. Social Work Research: International Actualities and Trends. Occasional Paper No. 22.
- Author
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Snyman, Ina
- Abstract
This report is based on data and insights obtained during a study tour of the United States and Canada. The purpose of the tour was to combine attending three conferences on social work and social welfare held in Montreal, Canada in the summer of 1984 with visiting various institutions in Canada and the United States. In the first section of this paper, "Aspects of the Crisis," a general review refers in the first instance to the vast differences between countries, including those normally labelled as being equally deprived. The most important aspects of the crisis are subsequently dealt with under the headings: arms race (particularly the nuclear arms race), health, education, housing, food, human rights, poverty and employment, and social security. From these crisis aspects participants in the working paper formulated the following forum topics and prepared brief introductions that were included in the paper. These are: sociocultural shifts, economic choices, technological upheavals, demographic dilemmas, environmental tightrope, political and organizational technocracies, children's needs and rights, youth's future, aging concerns, family survival, feminist affirmation, uprooting and migration, discrimination and segregation, and integration of the disabled. A bibliography, notes on the three conferences, and the study tour itinerary conclude the document. (BZ)
- Published
- 1986