Author Description

This book will stimulate social work students to think global and act local, by which the editor means that social workers today must gain theoretical and empirical knowledge about the internationalization process of social work and develop a comparative perspective to professionalize their analytical and methodological skills in their local contexts. To meet this goal this book consists of two parts. Part 1 offers theoretical frameworks about the history of the internationalization process of social work and the dominant welfare state models exist in Europe. These models again are crucial to understand, analyse and interpret the comparative research studies that are outlined in part 2 of this book. (Quelle: Klappentext).