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Werkskepping as deel van die taak van die maatskaplike werker in die rehabilitasie van gestremdes
- Authors:
- McKINLAY I., HOFMEYR L.
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Maatskaplike Werk, 31(2), June 1995, pp.133-139.
Argues that more emphasis should be placed on the necessity for job creation as part of the task of the social worker in the rehabilitation of the disabled in South Africa. There is clear indication for extensive measurements to be taken to enhance the consciousness of social workers with regard to the extension of roles and tasks.
Notes from practice
- Author:
- PRAKTYK Uit Die
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work: A journal of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), 38(3), August 2002, pp.289-295.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Looks at the benefits of using peer counselling to change the attitudes of persons with disabilities. Many rehabilitation professionals use former patients with great success to discuss and share their experiences with new patients. It can be an important component of the rehabilitation process in which a severely disabled person who has made a successful transition from institutional to independent community living provides resource information, support understanding and direction to another disabled person who desires to make a similar transition. Presents a number of case studies from a spinal unit in South Africa.
Social policy and the labour market
- Editors:
- DE JONG Philip R., MARMOR Theodore R.
- Publisher:
- Ashgate
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 733p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Aldershot
Joins micro-economic analysis of social insurance and welfare systems with broader political descriptions of social policy. Gives a sense of the fundamental problem of finding a social welfare system that fits specific economic and cultural conditions. Includes papers on: the Nordic welfare model and the European Union; convergence and divergence in the evolution of the welfare state; private provision of social security; the case for equivalent taxation of social security benefits in the European Union; an international analysis of retirement and economic development; disability and rehabilitation; unemployment insurance; social assistance in comparative perspective; lone mothers, policy and employment in twenty countries; Swedish single parents and social security; social security in Poland in a period of transition; social security reform in the Czech Republic; social security for disabled people in South Africa; China's social security in the context of the national distribution system; and integratability of social welfare systems for a unified Korea.