Meeting the Challenges of a Changing Society: Fifty Years of Social Work in IsraelFrank M. Loewenberg Magnes Press, the Hebrew Univ., 1998 - 324 pages For this book fifteen authors, each an expert in his or her field, have surveyed the developments that occurred during the past fifty years in specific fields of social work practice in Israel. Practice developments and relevant research are reviewed and special attention is paid to the impact on social work of social, economic, demographic and political changes in Israeli society, the emergence of a distinct Israeli social work practice (as distinct from its German and American sources) is also examined. |
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Loewenberg | 7 |
Shimon E Spiro Moshe Sherer Nora KorinLanger and Idit Weiss | 29 |
Dan Shnit | 51 |
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