Drs. Hokenstad and Midgley have developed a very thoughtful and timely volume that
carefully and critically evaluates a number of key issues facing our global society. This
collection of essays has the future of the social work profession and the major
international organizations representing it in clear view. It embraces and analyzes the
major issues we face and the theories, policies, and applications that will allow the
profession strategically to view the way forward.The centrality of human rights as a
global concern and its relationship to social welfare, to peace, tolerance, and social
justice, and to the social work profession are emphasized very appropriately in this work.
I am extremely pleased to recommend it to social workers worldwide.
Josephine A. V. Allen, PhD, ACSW
President, NASW
Drs. Hokenstad and Midgley have made a critically important and timely contribution to
the professional literature in this series of essays, which differentially stress a
spectrum of international and indeed world-focused issues in which the profession, can,
does, and must play an important role as we move into the next millennium.
Particular and essential qualities of this volume are the style of presentation and the
underlying conceptual thrust that argue convincingly for the necessity for all
practitioners to think, plan, and practice from a worldwide perspective, even though the
profession's day-to-day practice is a locally focused one. Individual chapters combine a
threefold quality of rich conceptualization, up-to-date and relevant data, and highly
pragmatic applications for the profession that enhance the volume's usefulness and
influence.
Frank J. Turner
Professor Emeritus
Faculty of Social Work
Wilfrid Laurier University
Waterloo, Ontario Canada
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